>>108884792Don'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>Utilitarian design: e.g. mix of old and new ports, stable keyboard layout>Easy to repair, upgrade (some models) & maintain thanks to readily available service manuals, spare parts easy to obtain>Usable in cramped quarters thanks to the TrackPoint>Excellent Linux & *BSD supportThinkWiki - General infohttps://www.thinkwiki.org/Model generations:>Classic IBM: T40-T42>IBM/Lenovo transition: T43 T60 T61 (T42-T43: significant spec difference; T43-T60: 64-bit arch)>Classic Lenovo: T400-T430 (T61-T400: 4:3 to 16:10; T410-T420: 16:10 to 16:9; T420-T430: 6-row keyboard, USB 3)>Boxy ultrabooks: T440-T480 (T430-T440: eDP, M.2, soldered CPU; T460-T470: NVMe, USB-C)>Thin above all: T490 T14g1 T14g2 (T480-T490: soldered WiFi (Intel), partly soldered RAM, internal battery only)>TrackPoint on a pig: T14g3 T14g4 (T14g2-T14g3: 16:9 to 16:10, fully soldered RAM/WiFi (AMD), end of mechanical docks)>iFixit-approved TrackPoint on pig: T14g5-... (T14g4-T14g5: Ctrl/Fn swap, camera bump, modular RAM returns)FAQ:>Oldest that won't choke on the modern webLight use: x60YouTube, Gmail etc: xx00(s)>Oldest that drives a 4K monitorxx40(p/s)>Oldest that takes 32 GB RAMX260 T460p/s W510>Lasts full day on batteryT550 T560 X260 xx70 Tx80 T16 and any Lunar Lake>Newest with socketed CPUT440p W541BIOS replacement:https://coreboot.org/ | https://libreboot.org/ | https://canoeboot.org/Supports x60 xx00(s)-xx30(s) T440p W54x T470s xx80(s)Additional resources:https://dankpads.com/tpg/ | https://biosimage.booru.org | https://github.com/n4ru/1vyrainPatches:https://github.com/digmorepaka/thinkpad-firmware-patcheshttps://github.com/hamishcoleman/thinkpad-ecChat:##ibmthinkpad on libera | #/tpg/ on rizon
Guise how can I best hide the thinkpad branding from my laptops? The logos but also the red on the mouse and buttons. What sort of paint or ink lasts long enough? Do the gray mouse nipples from Dell/HP fit?
>>109059982Blasphemy.
What's the ThinkVantage button supposed to be doing
Is $90 a bad deal for a P50?
>>109061893Seems fine if there's no catch (e.g. bad battery, missing SSD adapters
>>109059453how do I sell my thinkpads I'm sick of it I have like 15 at this point t420, t400, t410, w540, a big fat w700nobody on facebook marketplace wants them
>>109063433how much are you even selling them for
>>109063433ebay. you're unlikely to find collectors of niche old electronics in your local area
>>109063433plebbit has a sub for selling thinkpads
>>109059453I bought a refurbished T480 off eBay with 14" screen, 1920 X 1080 resolution, i5 8th Gen processor, 256gb NVME and 16GB RAM for around $280. Did I win or get jeeted?
>>109064630if its mint condition with at least a 90% battery it sounds fine
>>109064630$200 is the max I'd pay for an 8th gen, irrespective of whether it's full-specced. Even then that's getting into overpriced territory. Prices are confounded due to the whole flash chip shortage situation. A system has more than 16GB and vendors price it "accordingly". Even worse, the fact that morons are actually buying in this market. I suppose I can't blame them, seeing as how this is the new normal.
>>109064945It says the quality is excellent, but I haven’t gotten it yet. >>109065077Yeah, I didn’t see anything in the $100-$200 range besides laptops with missing SSDs and RAM slots.
>>109059982Sticker bombing. My normie coworker is given a HP Dragonfly with pepe the frog stickers all over it.What's the point hiding the nipple though? Thinkpad is a normie laptop, just that only desk jockeys and hospital staff use them.
>>109065131>but I haven’t gotten it yetIt's either going to be really good or really bad.
