>>107502998Don't buy anything OTHER THAN IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T, X, and W/P Series if you want the Real Business Experience™>Other business laptops are welcome in /tpg/ (Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook)Why ThinkPad?>Used machines are plentiful and cheap>Excellent keyboards, tactile feel and quiet + the TrackPoint>Great durability: magnesium roll cage for structural integrity, with high quality plastic body panels>Utilitarian design: e.g. indicator LEDs, 7 row keyboard layout on older models>Docking stations that easily turns your laptop into a desktop>Easy to repair (most models), upgrade & maintain thanks to readily available service manuals for every model, spare parts easy & cheap to obtain>Excellent Linux & *BSD supportThinkWiki - General info about ThinkPads/specshttps://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWikiModel generations:>Classic IBM: T40, T41, T42>IBM/Lenovo Transition: T43, T60, T61 (T42 - T43: significant difference in specs)>"Classic" Lenovo: T400, T410, T420 (T61 - T400: 4:3 to 16:10)>Transition to old modern: T430, T440, T450 (T420 - T430: membrane to chiclet)>Old modern: T460, T470, T480 (T450 - T460: significantly less thick)>New modern: T490, T14g1, T14g2 (T480 - T490: design change)>New new modern: T14g3, T14g4, ... (T14g2 - T14g3: second design change)BIOS replacement:https://coreboot.org/downloads.htmlhttps://libreboot.org/docs/install/https://canoeboot.org/docs/install/Additional resources:https://dankpads.com/tpg/https://biosimage.booru.orghttps://1vyra.inPatches:https://github.com/digmorepaka/thinkpad-firmware-patcheshttps://github.com/hamishcoleman/thinkpad-ecChat:##ibmthinkpad on libera#/tpg/ on rizon
>>107594789I need a laptop for school and work.My max budget is $550The most important features are:- good keyboard and trackpad (Dont care about red eraser thing, I almost always use a mouse) - good screen for readability- good thermals - modern bluetooth and wifi compatability- slim light build for lugging it around and using it in random placesUse case:- reading pdf files- zoom meetings- running bots - multi-tab browsing- light video editing on capcut sometimesChatgpt told me to get:- Lenovo ThinkBook 15 Gen 4or- IdeaPad Slim 5based on whats available as refurbished in the lenovo storeI had mixed experienced buying used shit. I don't want to fix anything I just want something that works and will last me a year or 2. I have a spare m2 SSD lying around.
Getting a t14 Gen 1 amd.
>>107595364Those regular ideapads may be okay but do NOT buy any 2-in-1 models, they will break no matter how careful you are. I’d imagine thinkpad x carbon series would be good for you.
Wish there was an oled x12, really want to try creating a tablet mode hyprland rice.
>>107595385good luck
>>107595364Thinkpad t14 g2
>>107595595Thanks
This general might not even survive the night
Any of you lads the tablet models? I killed my OS on my old T480 but it's been showing its age for some time now anyways. Especially Linux side of things, just wonder what the experience is like.
>>107595364>Lenovo ThinkBook 15 Gen 4>IdeaPad Slim 5why are you here then? buy a newest used x carbon
>>107596289Why? Last thread made it to 300.
>>107597065>x carbonnigga i said my max budget is $550
Is i5-6300 and 8 GB RAM Yoga 460 still usable for web browsing, light coding, few Docker containers, 1080p YouTube, etc, in 2026?
>>107596780>tablet models>linuxFor the most part they just werk. On Windows it's just your usual experience with touch screen and rotation support, On Screen Keyboard pops up when it makes sense. Linux it also just werks but with more caveats depending on your distro. GNOME/KDE is normally recommended for best touchscreen support since Wayland has had a lot of effort in to make it compatible. Since modern distros detect and run all the hardware with no issues X11 windows systems like XFCE can be adapted to be good as well with a few scripts, at the trade off of the screen briefly blacking out and refreshing every time you rotate it and having to manually open the On Screen Keyboard when necessary.>t. yoga thinkpad user who uses mint xfce
>>107597554It was at like page 9 when I said that
>>107597798stop being poor
Any good options for 4k video editing around $1500? Looks like a Legion 5i would be decent, but I worry about its longevity.
>buy used t14 gen2>in pretty good condition but ssd is only 256gb>open and swap with 512gb>decide to clean fan and cpu/graohics paste since its already open>screw 1 for cpu heatsink is stripped beyond rubber band trickstill managed to clean and reapply paste but holy shit what a unexpected headache.
>>107598916How do you open?
