>>107594789Don'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
I thought the P50/T430 chiclet keyboard was bad but it's infinitely better than the T14 Gen 4 keyboard. For fuck's sake, it feels like a cheap bluetooth keyboard.
>>107655606i actually like the stock T430 chicket better than the classic 7 row, i also don't mind the T480is the T430 compatible with a modern OLED monitor? can i just buy a miniDP to DP cable and use it with my OLED monitor?
why do retards stack their laptops?dont they realize they werent made tu support 80lbs of other shitass laptops on top of it? everytime i see a listing of stacked laptops i assume the owner is a homosexual of a certain racial persuasion
>>107655260>>107655606>>107655908I was just going to ask where I can find a genuine German layout keyboard for a T460. The unit one would want is one manufactured by Liteon, but I have only found one so far and it immediately got sold. Ebay is full of scammers that in their title list the FRU of the desired item but send one that is merely a unit compatible as a replacement for the desired one.
