BASED

>>109719943
on what?

>>109721727
On a proven success formula by IBM.

>>109721815
>Just charge $7000 on a laptop bro
BTFO by Compaq.

Goddamn...thread has been up all day and has four replies. /g/ truly is dead.

>>109723519
Thinkpads are truly dead. All the good ones are nigh unusable for one reason or another in the current year.

>>109723519
when ram/ssds are more than half of the price of a decent thinkpad it was bound to happen

>>109723519
because of rising prices, actually buying thinkpads and elitebooks or I guess just older business laptops in general, ordinary people and not just tech guys are also starting to buy thinkpads like this, especially also switching to linux
I've seen several places where people have recommended normal people to buy these on social media
so the concept is not dead, most likely it's going to be trending sooner or later
only shitty thing about this is that refurbished laptops will probably become more expensive, but I guess it is what it is. at least there's a ton of thinkpads where they come from, and prices are cheap for now

>>109724150
>because of rising prices, actually buying thinkpads and elitebooks or I guess just older business laptops in general, ordinary people and not just tech guys are also starting to buy thinkpads like this, especially also switching to linux
Regardless of that, there are no replacements. New laptops all have soldered on stuff except framework which is still very expensive. $100 for a new battery. It's all the same hardware slop.

I have nightmares about not knowing what I'm going to replace my T480 with. I don't see myself feeling comfortable with a newer model, and Framework laptops will never have a TrackPoint.

>>109724196
If it's fast enough for your needs in the foreseeable future, stock up on T480s if you can fine em I probably got the last few T470s with 1080p that were in good condition and had drives in them for reasonable price because I liked the machine and it was more than fast enough for everyday shit.

>>109723519
Economy's not as strong as it once was a decade ago, laptop hardware is pretty locked down these days, redesigns have eliminated a lot of the line's unique features compared to its competitors, and existing hardware has long been able to do what the average normalfag needs. The T480 is STILL touted as the best babby's first Thonkpad and that shit's nearly nine years old now.

A decent laptop bought any time in this past decade can still be daily driven even if it feels slow, so upgrading is less necessary. With SSDs being the only swappable major component buyers are just waiting for desirable SKUs to pop up on the secondhand market and the undesirable hardware configs just shelfwarm until they're scrapped. USB-C docks are super prevalent in offices and in homes as well so ports aren't as big a selling point any more, and a slightly nicer chiclet keyboard is still a chiclet keyboard lacking the practicality of the old 7-row layout.

Honestly if the X230/T430 came with proper FHD screens people would probably argue for those as an even more budget alternative to the T480. The hardware's old but it can still handle video/media playback well enough.

>>109724284
>A decent laptop bought any time in this past decade can still be daily driven
It's true, I went from Core 2 to a T470 and the thing is an absolute monster at 9 years old, even when I got my Core 2 Latitude, it was 6 years old and firmly obsolete compared to Ivy or Haswell laptops that spewed out the same heat, things have just slowed down so much, 14nm is still usable even if it's dual core, laptops like the T470 and T480 hold a stupid amount of RAM, you're not gonna be struggling with your 14nm lake chip and 32GB of DDR4 compared to some e-waste laptop with 4GB of RAM or new gaming laptop that only has 16GB of RAM and is $900 for some reason.

>>109724219
>stock up on T480s if you can fine em
this, also other models you like. They will never make laptops like this again, and the existing stock is limited, so if you want your ThinkPad stack to last, you need to buy at least a few

>>109723770
werks on my machine

>>109723770
the new ones have keyboards that suck ass
the layout is the same but the quality is ass

How do you get rid of the smell on thinkpads? Soap and water and then start spraying cologne on them or some shit?

more like stinkpad lmao

>>109725791
>stinkpad
My ThinkPad has no odor. If yours does, then maybe that reflects your own poor personal hygiene choices.

>>109725766
what smell?

>>109717624
realistically speaking if I would get myself a used older gen T14, do you guys think it could run Rocket League smoothly? I don't really play any vidya besides emulators but I want something that can at least run rl, and other than that just a cheap-ish laptop for uni tasks

>>109725766
The strong chemical smell coming from internal rubber trays on T4x, T6x series? (also some specific models up to ~T440 iirc)
I don't, I like it.

>>109726139
>>109726350
T420 and T430. The bottom and lid are fine, as in the smell isn't strong and anything nauseating, but it's very noticeable specifically with the touchpad and keyboard. A not very pleasant plastic type of smell or something, T420 has it less thankfully but it's there. They look clean enough to me after I did some cleaning work but yeah the smell persists sadly

>I don't, I like it
I'm good, I prefer my laptops having no smell at all, but understandable.

>>109717609
wtf a replacement keyboard would cost over 150 bucks

>>109728279
Which model? I've never had to pay more than $30 for a keyboard.

>>109728490
t490s

>>109728537
Have you looked at Lenovo's part clearance?
https://support.lenovo.com/[2-letter country code]/en/parts-lookup/clearance-sale

If they don't have any T490s parts in your country, look at T14s gen 1 (same parts with different part numbers), or as a last resort P1/X1E gen 1-3 (where you'd have to screw and unscrew dozens of tiny screws to move the keyboard from the 15" to the 14" palmrest)

>>109728934
oh my god i didnt know this existed, they also offer parts on my cunt at retardedly low prices, lots of 6/7/8th gen stuff
is there anything stopping from buying a broken thinkpad and fixiing with parts from there?

I've heard x1 carbon gen 6 had the best keyboard (or at least was the last one with a particularly good keyboard) and I care more about a keyboard than anything else.
there is one locally for $200 with 16gb, i7, IPS. should I go for it or shell out for something more modern?

>>109729530
$200 is almost free, if it's good enough for your use I'd probably just try it out.

>>109729530
For this budget you can also consider T480s if you're anxious about the RAM, or T14G1A if it's the CPU (and you're fine with losing the metal case and corebootability). All three have the same sort of keyboard with 1.8mm travel and a 4mm Elan trackpoint.

>>109729602
Your filter looks shit, and nothing like a CRT.

>>109729847
it's good enough

it's not supposed to look like a crt tv. it's a msdos game

I have a T490 running wayland, that supposedly has a good thunderbolt 3 support, so I'm looking for an external monitor I can use like this.

Anyone using a setup like this? I'd like to know if it it plug and play or did you have to troubleshoot here and there?

Should I take a gamble on ordering a laptop from another country? Or should you only buy used thinkpad from your local shop.

https://www.australiancomputertraders.com.au/lenovo-thinkpad-t14-gen-2-intel-i7-1165g7-2.80ghz~1399062

is this good

>>109731070
>Battery capacity ranges between 50% and 79% of the original
>no pictures of unit or serial number
Depends on what you want. The intel version doesn’t have great battery life even with a new battery.

I looked at eBay for aus t14 gen 2 and it wasn’t encouraging. Few options and high price

>>109729602
Looks comfy, if you were here I'd give you my i5 3380M to put in there and an 8GB SO DIMM to get to glorious 16GB

>>109731760
>>109731070
also 8gb soldered ram :\ not so good. you would need to install at least another 8gb
>>109731058
if the shipping isnt bad, you can get a close look at the actual laptop with pictures, and there are returns, i dont see an issue with it.

>>109731070
there's a free ram slot, so you'd really want to put some extra ram in there. Max that laptop supports is 32 gb, for a total of 40 gb ram.

Are thinkpads good again?

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>>109729847
you do realize my options are limited right? it's a thinkpad from 2012

>>109734011
>Are thinkpads good again?
everything else have gotten so expensive, while thinkpads are cheap
I'm fairly certain it's going to become fairly common for regular people to soon buy refurbished business laptops like t14 g2/g3 and elitebook 840. People don't really need more for most of their daily work and living, and linux will work on those machines for years and is getting more popular
so I somewhat expect prices for refubished laptops to increase as well. they've been cheaper than usual now for a while, probably 25 percent cheaper than usual, but I don't think that'll last

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Reminder to repaste your latop

Thoughts?
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/1w75fvm/framepad/
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:7393102

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>>109735540

>>109735559
interesting
feels like what should have been
would be close to perfect if the cooling system were upgraded too. higher PL1/PL2 and shit should mean you can do more hardcore stuff

>>109723519
Everyone moved to twitter.
Who would have thought that making it a pain in the ass for regular users to make a post would work out well.

>tfw second working T30

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>>109734176

>free HP ZBookG2
>i7 4810mq and quadro K2100
>fucking 100*C idle temps wtf
>crack the seal on it
>small amount of dust, not enough to warrant 100*C
>repaste with MX7
>old paste literally flaked away
>load temps now 58*C without a cooler underneath

Apparently I can slap a GTX965 in it, may do that at a later date though the Quadro graphics arent terrible, I can play Warframe with the settings turned down

What should I use for this pad material on the RAM chips? I've seen this stuff a few times.

>>109734141
>I'm fairly certain it's going to become fairly common for regular people to soon buy refurbished business laptops like t14 g2/g3 and elitebook 840
It's already common among tech hipsters but I don't think its going to become common. I know Thinkpad processors are still perfectly usable in 2026 with enough ram but people still prefer to buy new.

>>109734176
Good post. Already did so btw.
>>109735997
>58°C under load
What the fuck? Is MX-7 really that good?
I need to test this out some day, but I already put a Thermal Grizzly PhaseSheet on my W541 (funnily enough with the same CPU as your ZBook) and have another one sitting in my freezer for when I get the muse to swap out the paste on my desktop.
Dropped my temps from 85°C to 70°C under load btw: >>109696602

I still can't get a grip, 58°C under load is just insane, my Liquid Freezer II on my Desktop cannot even do that.

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>>109736212
>know Thinkpad processors are still perfectly usable in 2026 with enough ram but people still prefer to buy new.
This, and theres good reason normies should buy new, us as ThinkPad niggas are willing to put up with a laptop that isnt perfect or new, may or may not have a working battery, or come with an os from the seller, but the normies need a laptop that just works, and even if its consume trash that isnt as nicely built, theyre getting to inbox a new laptop that they know has good battery health, and has the windows 11 on it (eww) and is going to do what they need, so the market will never go away, and im okay with that, I wouldn't want normies buying a business class computer because social media artists told them to, and then being underwhelmed by it or even facing problems that the people who made the laptop can't help them with, or a store to return it to easily, they either gotta work it out with eBay sellers or deal with it themselves, which is a hassle, and why it makes sense to buy new.

Pic rel is cringe, but for a normal this is the best damn $700 you're gonna spend because of things like battery life and being able to buy Applecare.

>>109723770
canoebooted x230 running parabola open rc edition with an ath9k compatible wifi card just werks

My T470s had an Alt key that was constantly inputting Alt even though I wasn't pressing anything and at this point it has started to affect multiple keys. Sometimes I can't even type anything on the keyboard but things like Alt+Tab still work. Literally just numbers and letters and also enter don't work. It's definitely not software related because it was even happening outside of Windows. Is it over?

>>109739223
You might want to try cleaning the keyboard with compressed air and isopropyl alcohol first. If that doesn't fix it, try unscrewing it and cleaning the contacts too.
If nothing works, you could always replace it. Another anon already posted the clearance sale link: >>109728934
Looks like they have T470s keyboards on sale right now.

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I had this damn thing with an uptime of like 500 days and the damn power went out and the battery drained so it's down to a paltry 60 days

>>109739782
I'm impressed but also aghast. What temps/fan speeds are you getting, and what do you normally use this machine for?

Damn, getting the discrete GPU heatsink for my T480 solved the only real issue I had with it, which was throttling and heat.
It's downright perfect now, the only thing I wish it had is a slightly faster GPU.
GVT-g is such a cool technology, shame Intel killed it.

>>109739782
linux users could never, with their constant kernel updates.

>>109740791
>linux users could never, with their constant kernel updates.
- ksplice (2008)
- kpatch (2014)
- kernel live patching (2015)

- kfc (1952)

>Colonel Sanders finalized his core pressure-cooking method and 11 herbs and spices during this era to make the frying process fast enough for restaurant scale.
It was a magical time.

>>109740823
>- kernel live patching (2015)
ok try again, but on a distro suitable for a desktop ie a normal person.

>>109737772
I like the idea behind the macbook neo, I just don't like the thermal throttling, the disk swap issue, the 8gb of ram, and the lack of OS option. ARM is the future of laptops and desktops.

>>109740882
Apple laptops have been so shit since they soldered even the drives that my sister doesn't even fuck with them anymore, She thought having a 1466 Macbook air with integrated HD6000 would just not fail but even that thing died for no reason, if it was some T2 soldered SSD nonsense we would've been even more fucked when it came to recovering data, would've went from a $100ish dollar purchase of 9yo computer to put the drive in, to a board repair on a 9yo computer which makes no sense unless you really need the data, but you still shouldn't have to do all that.

y'all niggas ever get kernel panics i just suffered two on my thinkpad with a bunch of artifacting prior to that. though now even after running it through the wringer with my usual shit it's sitting here now pretending like nothing happened. i'm getting rolled over here.

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what's the newest thinkpad that we are 100% sure doesn't have ime or psp?

>>109741874
Shit Anon, CPU spyware has been around since Core 2 duo, you'll have to run Coreboot or Libreboot that I don't know much about, and I think you can get a T480 and libreboot it, which is why it's so memed.

>>109741874
T60

What is considered as in "good" condition when it comes to the condition of a refurbished laptop? What are some tips to know before buying a refurbished laptop?

>>109741874
You can libreboot and remove the IME from the T480.

>>109741327
oh yeah the thermals on macbooks will cook them alive especially the airs.
the 2012 macbooks were pretty good though. i have one laying around that i should play around with more.

>>109741870
>kernel panics
that shit ever only happened to me during my hackintosh days

>>109741928
>>109742043
I thought the T480 still had blobs?

okay thanks for NOT answering my question guys...

>>109742810
It does, the other posters are retards who don't know that anything after xx00 is impossible to be completely libre.

>>109741874
>>109742810
I know X60 for certain. As another anon mentioned, apparently so to, the X200. Not sure about their T variants, but I'd assume so. All other subsequent iterations can only be "neutered"; they require blobs used for booting, after which the IME is kept in a reset loop, as I understand/remember it.

There are also desktop/server motherboards that may achieve a similar result as the fully libre laptop boards, though they're also likely to be C2D era.

Alternatively, just don't be a pedo.

>>109743076
Wait your turn, nigger.

>>109735901
>Everyone moved to twitter
Ha, good one!

>>109739223
It's clearly kill. Don't even bother trying to clean the contacts, just buy another keyboard and stop cumming on your thinkpad.

>>109717624
I'd like to upgrade from my T460 with dual core and 8GB single channel to something a little more powerful before used hardware starts seeing rises in price. Is T480 still the meta for used Thinkpads or is something newer recommended these days? I run Adobe CS6, some office software for work, some DAW software for music making and some light gaming, but would kike to perhaps do a little more gaming. Graphics aren't super important to me, though.

>>109745647
>Is T480 still the meta for used Thinkpads or is something newer recommended these days?
Get a T14 Gen 2 with the AMD Zen3 processor anon, the T480 is massively overpriced for what it is these days due to social media recommending non computer motherfuckers to buy them for some bizzare reason even though they'll never benefit from such a machine.

is it possible to install TempleOS on a T400s?

>>109745662
>>109745647
the intels are cheaper and more available, so in general they're the better buy honestly

>>109745647
>T480 still the meta for used Thinkpads or is something newer recommended these days?
in general it's the thinkpad t14 gen 2 and 3 that give you the most bang for your bucks these days. these are the four-five year old models the industry is getting rid of these days. the gen 3 amd only has soldered ram, so avoid that one though. also the gen 3 is 16:10 and is a little smaller, so the keyboard is slightly smaller which is noticeable
they're not particularly good for gaming and get really hot like any laptop that's not a gaming laptop with a proper cooling system, but they work for wow private servers and stuff like that

>>109745717
Yes, as long as you set every related BIOS setting to Legacy/Compatibility, especially the SATA controller
You'll then have to search for the primary and secondary I/O ports for your HDD to be able to install, unless you're keep with running it only from the CD-ROM
you have to make sure that you have a HDD, not SSD, otherwise the SSD will die because TOS rewrites the same bytes over and over
all Thinkpad models from the 60 series up to x30 series are able to boot and install TempleOS natively
it is prefered to have a T60 with a 4:3 1400x1050 screen because the scaling is the best (in my experience at least), maybe even 16:10, but 16:9 is ultra uggo
t. 4:3 T60 dualbooting TOS and Windows XP

>>109745662
>>109746273
>>109746304
Thanks for your replies. I'm a little out of date on my laptop tech knowledge. Are the AMD or Intel gen 2 or gen 3 models powerful enough to emulate switch or run Skryim with some mods? And is the AMD variant T14 gen 3 the only one with soldered memory?

>>109743076
What question?

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>>109740378
>Temps
See pic
>Fan Speeds
It spins
>Normal use
I'm running it 24/7 to see how fast I can kill it. The thing refuses to die. It's some sort of undead beast that exists to play Diablo 2 or HoMM 3 and never fail at those tasks

>>109747669
>62.0 and 58.0
Yeah that thing's gonna be fine. I'd consider those "cool" for moderate to high loads, to see that it's running at full tilt and barely breaking 60 is pretty crazy. Would've thought you'd be constantly be at ~80 or higher but at those temps you're probably good to keep it going nonstop for another two years.

>>109747669
>He thinks he's gonna kill a based Penryn laptop
You're sweet. Anon.

>>109737658

It's not MX-7 being good it's HP using the cheapest shittiest paste on everything, but MX-7 is good though. Everything I have put it on has seen a decent drop in temps, even weird shit like old Pentium 4 laptops, made a huge difference on my IBM T30.

>>109737658

also for some reason the cooling on the ZBook G2 is pretty beefy, I bet when I upgrade that GPU it will go up a little, there's almost as much metal in the heatpipe setup as my Alienware M17 r5. I did get it to 61*C today but that was basically heatsoaking it for an hour in Warframe.

Now when I did all of this I did a little extra, I re-taped the area between the heatsink and the fan to help channel more airflow into the heatpipe cooler and when I did the repaste I cleaned all contact areas with alcohol. I was surprised too at how well it stays cool.

>>109747669

>built HP Dragon HDX9200
>upgraded to Penryn T9500
>find out that it overheats if you game while charging the battery
>figured this out by playing UT2004
>randomly shut off in the middle of a match
>wtf, put a larger 230w power supply on it
>still shutting off, weird.
>load HWMonitor on it, open UT2004
>temps were touching 100*C right before it fucked off

This has happened several times and I just make sure it's charged before I load anything 3D

You ain't gonna kill it if you wrap it up in blankets and try to cook it like people did with the xbox red ring of death

>>109742181
yeah lol this is some weird shit. anyway i figured out it had something to do with the ultra dock i just bought, idk something bout the t480 spazzing out from all the extra power even after being undocked or something. will have to read into the matter a little more.

>>109728934
I took the keyboard out of my laptop now. It says "PARTS NO. SN20L82059" but I can't find that one

>>109749259
T460s/T470s then, not T490s? Try any of
>01AV012 01AV052 01EN612 01EN653 01EN694 01EN735 01EN776 01EN817 01EN858 01EN899 01ER799 01ER840 01ER881 01ER922 01YR058 01YR100 01YT112 01YT154
or if those are gone, look for other layouts using https://libthinkpad.github.io/fru/

>>109750084
Oh sorry I meantto reply to >>109739616 . Yeah my model in question is T470s

>>109747032
f-forget about it b-b-baaaka >.<

>>109746782
>And is the AMD variant T14 gen 3 the only one with soldered memory?
I think the AMD gen 4 also has soldered memory. But from gen 5 forwards both intel and amd should have two dimm slots and no soldered ram. But they're far too expensive now to be bought refurbished.
I would think skyrim would be no problem, but not sure on emulating switch. But in general they're not that great for gaming, they're primarily made for office work and get fairly hot when running games like any regular laptop that's not a gaming laptop does. Their cooling solutions are just not made for tasks like that.
The only game I've played is wow on private servers and even that gets hot.

also if u don't mind me asking is crunchyroll where people still watch anime or u guys just pirate straight up. there's this show i wanna watch but the damn thing's region-locked

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>>109750746
NTA but interested about the big 16 models.
What about T16, P16 n P16s, Gen 2, 3, 4 and 5.
Do these also have soldered mem?

>>109750956
>T16, P16s
Some gen 1-2 have fully soldered RAM, gen 3+ is always socketed
>P16
Always socketed

>>109750890
nyaa.si

>>109751497
nya to you too :33

>>109751497
nyaa indeed... and the show's here too. still airing though, guess i'll wait till it's over then i can binge it in one night. thx.

T470 i5-6200U any good? I won't be running Windows 11 or anything. No by the way, I can't find a T480

>>109752301
>dual-core in 2026

>>109752301
Perfectly usable as a content consoomption or writing machine, and better than a dual-core T480 by some measures (replaceable power jack etc)

Why are Thinkpads so overpriced these days?? I used to hear people say they are dirt cheap because its mainly old office laptops that are sold refurbished but the prices even for older Thinkpads are insane.. Ain't no way I'm paying 200 bucks for a 10 years old laptop with below average specs...
>>109752301
I got a non-thinkpad laptop with a 6th gen i7 and it works good enough for just internet and coding.

>>109753523
200 is way overpriced for what it is. There are no longer any corporate laptop fleets using old thinkpads, and there haven't been for some time. They've moved on to the new lenovo chinkpads or chromebooks since 2018. And resellers have clued in to the fact that these thinkpads are hip and cool to tech hipsters. Try looking around on used markets around you because older people don't know that what they're selling is valuable. Or go for a Dell Latitude or HP which should be cheaper because they don't have the thinkpad name

>>109753523
>I used to hear people say they are dirt cheap because its mainly old office laptops that are sold refurbished but the prices even for older Thinkpads are insane
They're classic cars of laptops now. HP and Dell have replaced them as cheap garbage laptop that gets replaced every 3-5 years but they rarely last longer than the warrant. Thinkpads that last forever are now in shorter supply and people know it.

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After a X13 to replace my X230.
Whats the current price/performance sweet spot, generation wise, gen3?

>>109753661
the ones the industry are getting rid off and replacing
pretty much the four-five year old laptops
so pretty much gen 2 and 3
you want to buy the ones that are in abundance pretty much

>>109753523
you need to buy the four-five year old the industry is replacing, like the t14 gen 2 and 3
half the point is that they're severely in abundance

>>109750890
subsplease with deluge torrent is my go to
deluge is pretty much a light weight no-nonsense torrent program that does the job
subsplease rip directly from crunchyroll and a few others

>>109753603
>Thinkpads that last forever are now in shorter supply and people know it.
This, due to internet everybody knows what they have, try buying a known reliable car, it's getting factored in the price, the days of buying that 13 year old 100,000 mile Honda with lots of life left for 5 grand are gone, be prepared to spend $5000 or more on one that's 22 years old or more if it's running.

>>109724196
Yeah i some gaming on the go and the gaming laptops are rough. I just need a 14inch thinkpad that doesnt suck at some modern games


Why cant we just get 1 durable thinkpad laptop with a dgpu? Do I really have to get a omen or tuf or something?

>>109755027
>durable thinkpad laptop with a dgpu
It's because it's an oxymoron Anon, having a dedicated GPU puts more heat in the laptop and it's another point of failure, the carbon fiber infused shit and magnesium skeleton of a chinkpad are wonderful, but part of what keeps them going for a very long time are the shit specifications, like U class chips and low power Intel or Vega integrated graphics, Look at some of the great Macbook Pro GPU failures like Nvidia 8600M, AMD 6750M, if they didn't have those piece of shit cards, the laptops would've lived forever, but they didn't because they chose to put a dgpu in it, where Lelnovo leans toward integrated graphics in their rank and file 14 inch business machine, and it's worked brilliantly for them, the failure rate is very low.

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Is the T430 any good in 2026? My old PC just died and I need a new one as fast as possible. Also, I want something cheap because i don't have money right now.

>>109755612
>Is the T430 any good in 2026?
LOL. LMAO.

>>109755612
>Cue dual-core in 2026 response
As a rule of thumb, you can shitpost on quite literally anything; you don't NEED a thinkpad specifically--only if you care for validation from the retarded, consumeristic faggots itt.

>My old PC just died and I need a new one
Lol, were you still on C2D?

>>109753523
>Why are Thinkpads so overpriced these days??
Normalfags becoming aware of them, and them becoming trendy as a result. This is largely an extension of lockdown trends where everyone suddenly needed a computing device other than a smartphone, yet being too poor to buy anything new.

Also the whole flash chip shortage; resellers now often take out the RAM to sell separately, the present-day equivalent to coin clipping lol.

>>109750890
>is crunchyroll where people still watch anime
Only if you want to end up in a data breach without any recourse, are okay with a meager selection of series that are periodically cycled through due to licensing, and are okay with Jews raping the anime industry.

>>109755612
The keyboard is still good, but any T430 you're likely to find in 2026 will probably be visibly damaged, have a worn-out battery, and have a worse price/performance ratio than 2018+ models because they're becoming collector's items.
>I want something cheap because i don't have money right now.
What's your budget and use case?

>>109755612
It works but the T470 with 50% more performance is like the same money on a similar dual core setup with 15W instead of 25w-35w Ivy CPUs and goes for the same money, skip over the T480 because meme if you're looking to spend over $200 and get a T14 Gen 2.

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>>109751093
>T16, P16s gen 3+ is always socketed
>P16 Always socketed
Nice.
Thank u very much for your time answering my question kind sir. That is all i wanted to know.

>>109755955
>resellers now often take out the RAM to sell separately
Not just RAM anymore anon.. almost every SSD in these laptops is fucking 256gb, if any is included at all..

>>109756973
This, I used to recommend the T470 cause it was cheap and now you don't even see the motherfuckers with the SSD not ripped out of it and they want basically the same money as I bought em for complete.

>>109755094
Thanks anon so what is the best option if I need a dgpu

Have been considering the new tuf 14, p14s or an omen 14, g14 but all of these laptops seem sketchy

>>109756181
>with 15W instead of 25w-35w Ivy CPUs
I used to downplay the TDP difference, but the other day I rescued an e-waste X220 and was slapped in the face with it. 18W to play a video on Sandy Bridge, compared to 8W on Skylake. Core2Duo need not apply.

>>109758324
kinda wonder how much my 16-yo macbook consumes to play video lol.

>>109755955
>meager selection of series
long as i find something nice, i guess, don't watch this stuff much to begin with.

>>109717624
Is it true that nuThinkpads default to UEFI and can't use legacy BIOS?

>>109760585
2012 and later default to UEFI, 2021 and later drop legacy BIOS afaik

>>109757710
whats wrong with the p14s? looks fine to me.
(unrelated to thread but kinda related to u ig) I bought a non-thinkpad 14'' laptop that has a undervolted cpu and a quite crappy dGPU, but its a dGPU. I haven't extensively tested it but it seems like a good compromise to play some easier games without the laptop eating all your battery life in 4 seconds

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>>109755612

If you can get one for free or cheap, do it. They are upgradable to quad core, mine has a 3610qe out of a network appliance and 8gb of RAM and does basic browsing well. Shit, I can even play old games on it, with the Intel graphics too, it does UT99 and UT2004 exceptionally well. Q4 even runs on it. Microcenter has a battery for it for 40 bucks and it's pretty decent. I use it for my racecar it's got Megasquirt Tunerstudio on it.

If I had to spend money on a Thinkpad right now though, and was broke, it would be an E590 no contest. Any of the E models are basically T models that you can't drop and expect to survive more than once. The battery life is amazing and the i7-8265u can keep up with the modern internet, shit, my Alienware has an 8th gen Intel chip and it's fine. There is a backlit keyboard option too for the E590, uses the same keyboard as T480/490. And it has a metal lid on it too. FHD screen.

>>109757710

Gamer here. I'm gonna shill Alienware HARD, fuck what everyone thinks. I used to meme people who bought them until I was gifted an M17 R5. There is a TON of metal under these things to soak up all the heat. The heatpipes on the back are almost two inches tall. If I turn off Turbo mode it will struggle to get above 70*C load sitting on a table with no help. The non-gaming brand laptops with gaming GPUs are a compromise I had a TUF, pic related, and they get too hot. There's just not enough real estate on a 15" laptop to spread all of that heat out.

If you want to game, spend your money on a 17" screen it has more heatpipe material to dissipate heat. Gaming laptops are something you do not want to skimp on shit if you want it to last. That M17 R5 was built in 2018 and I spent 4 hours playing Warframe on it last night. It survived a 10 foot drop out of my semi-truck, no shit. I'm not going to lie about some shit like that. You get what you pay for, it doesn't have to be an Alienware but spend the money and get something nice.

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>>109755955

>Hating on C2D

Nigga I have a T60p with the Merom C2D not even the nice Penryn and I have another Toshiba with the Merom, pic related it's 7900GS, it actually handles the modern internet fine as long as you don't need TLS 1.2 the T60p has XP and the Toshiba has 7.

I mean yeah if you want to enjoy sloppified ((((((social media)))))) which is made for faggots yeah you need something with some more horsepower but C2D is enough for people with an IQ over room temperature. Hell, I have a fucking Prescott 3.4ghz P4 with AGP and 3gb DDR400 that does 1080p YouTube, though it's a retro LAN party gaming machine.

>>109762073
Kek Penryn is shockingly usable for how old it is, my T9550 2.66 and GMA 4500MHD was fine at playing 1080p 30 recently until the beloved T470 came into my life, spewed out heat like a mofo but it wasn't struggling.

>>109762073
>Hating on C2D
I've used an X60 that was sufficient for certain use cases at the time, though the battery and thermals/TDP left much to be desired. I was making fun of the fact the anon I had replied to is likely poor, and from the third world.

I'm not going to inconvenience myself with shorter battery life and shit thermals just to prove a point. Good to see you're making the most of your socioeconomic situation however!

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>>109764417

Lol these things are just toys my daily driver is an 6-core Dell Precision 7560 with Xeon w-11855 with 128gb RAM and Quadro A4000 graphics with 3x 4tb NVME SSDs, I built it a while back before everything got stupid I paid 200 for each of those drives they are Acer Predator GM7000's. I'm getting ready to upgrade it to w-11955 8-core. I built it for shit like Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop I can stack layers and edits and it doesn't care, I do photography and work with some pretty decent size RAW files.

Old shit is fun to play with, I have a Thinkpad T30 I maxed out and I'm bringing it to a retro LAN party in October with friends. That C2D Toshiba with the 7900 graphics did a clean sweep at a LAN party in June in Unreal Tournament 1999. Ain't nothing wrong with being broke! Shit, I learned everything I know now because I used to be broke and couldn't afford nice shit so I had to make the best of what I had.

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>>109717624
>Be me
>Want to build a compute cluster for my thesis
>Raspberrys are unaffordable
>Decide to buy old ThinkPad mainboards instead and Frankenstein something
>go to ebay
>Check Coffee Lake boards
>They're either all fucked beyond repair or straight up unaffordable
>MFW

What the fuck is going on, they used to be 20€ a pop, now they want like 90€ for a X380 board for a fucking i5. The market cannot be THIS screwed that 8 year old replacement mainboards are this fucking expensive.

>>109765529
Yes, but you should be willing to pay any price to prevent Iran from getting a nuke so jews feel safe.

>>109766219
Fax, those big nose niggas with pubic hair on their head who hate me are my greatest ally

>Looking at 14nm chinkpads
>all of them NO SSD
I hate AI so much it's unreal, everyone's bitching about the water and power consumption, I'm pissed about the fucking e-waste this is creating out of extremely usable M.2 era DDR4 laptops being recycled before their time, sure you can buy them with no SSD, but the SSD is so expensive to put back in that it makes the laptop not viable.

>>109767247
I've found a few small repair shops that resell 256GB drives from dead laptops, including 2242, for $20 or less. 512GB on the other hand seems to be out of reach already.

>>109767247
don't buy from professional resellers of course they'll fuck you over. buy used from people who dont know any better and cut out the middleman

Is it a good idea to get a thinkpad yoga from the used market? I'm having second thoughts about it even thought it's a thinkpad, since it feels kinda like a tablet and they're usually not good used. Specifically X1 Yoga Gen3 (8th gen i7, 16/512). Battery is the part I'm most concerned about, since these models are supposed to be thinner? (as far as I know). Seller says the battery health is good but I doubt that on a laptop released in 2020. Would there be any problems with replacing it? It also looks really worn down.

>>109752301
T470 is a fine machine for the right price, Anon.

>>109752883
>>109769818
Dual core Intel 14nm is pretty damn good, I remember when it was a new laptop that I couldn't buy and the 7300U was 10% weaker than a 45w Sandy 2720QM, and it used 1/3 the energy, so you're not struggling to do everyday shit.

>>109769399
>Battery is the part I'm most concerned about, since these models are supposed to be thinner?
54 Wh compared to 57 Wh on X1C6 and T480s. Adjusting for the touchscreen and pen digitizer you can expect about 1h shorter life than those two models.
>Seller says the battery health is good but I doubt that on a laptop released in 2020.
Original batteries in good shape aren't as rare as you might think. I have a few as old as 2014 with 80-85% health. Newer ones where they overcharge the cells by design will obviously be worse but I still have one from 2018 with 88% and a few from 2019 with 85-90%.
>Would there be any problems with replacing it?
There's plenty of aftermarket batteries and you can still get new original ones (for 3x the price of aftermarket).

>>109769399
>Seller says
did he give some proof of some sorts?

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>still as it left the factory with 8GB SODIMM and 256GB NVME
>condition perfect minus a little tearing on the feet
>FHD screen
>$75
Score

>>109775471
>dual core processor nearly 25 years after 9/11

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>>109776070

My P4 Thinkpad T30 in front line production, what now?

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>>109776354
I want oooooooone. It's pretty much the perfect retro machine for XP-era and earlier shit. Unfortunately in my local market I've only found R-series equivalents, and in online marketplaces retro models are horrifically overpriced. I saw one T30 selling for 190 euros.

>>109776417

There's nothing wrong with the R models, I actually prefer those because the rubber material on the XP era laptops comes off easily. T30 has native serial port so I can run the ECU off it and the wideband runs off a PCMCIA RS232 card.

The problem with the T30 is a lot of them have issues with the memory slots and they have to be reflowed, it's a common issue. Still a great laptop though, but my perfect XP Thinkpad has to be the T60p with the ATi X1700 graphics. It took me a minute but I did find one.

>>109776459
I'm aware of the memory slot thing and I have the tools (and I hope the ability) to fix it. I was hoping there would be someone selling someone as "not-working" because of that but no such luck yet... Most likely these were thrown in the shredder.
>T60p
I have a T60 with an ATi X1400. I found it on the flea market for 10 euro on shockingly good condition to the point even its OG battery holds a charge after all these years. Perfect machine for mid-to-late XP era shit, albeit not as good as the T60p obv.

>>109776459
Aren't the R series less durable and with less premium materials? The worn off rubber is annoying but relatively manageable.

>>109776546

Not really, I still wouldn't drop one. I have an R60 I have been hoarding for an X210ai build, it's pretty similar inside to my T60p. The R models usually didn't come with premium graphics, the highest on the R60 you could get was the x1300 and on the T60p was the x1700 or the FireGL V5250 which is the same thing, we used to softmod them back in the day.

I have 4 T30's and two work and I'm fairly sure one of the non-working ones has the memory issue, where are you?

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Two ThinkPads here.
One display is OLED, the other is IPS.
Tell me which one looks better and what panel you think either is.

>>109777642
I like the one on the right, I don't know much about screens but I like the colors of the one on the right, anything better than a TN panel is going to look beautiful.

>>109777662
The one on the right is an OLED from an X1 2-in-1 Gen 10.
The one on the left is a modded IPS (B140QAN03.H) in a T14 Gen 6.

I prefer the IPS since when I compare the two, the OLED has a green tint / color cast that doesn't show up in photos.

>>109777711
If you like the IPS Anon, use it, my main rig hooked up to the Dell Ultrasharp and the T470 have IPS and they're both absolutely gorgeous.

>>109777226
>where are you?
Greece

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>>109717624
Pic rel is my mom's laptop Dell latitude E6410. It has original power supply in good condition, docking station e port plus II and it has very good condition with a little scratches on the body

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>>109781498
It has original battery but it's dead. But i store it just for history because it's original

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>>109781509
Keyboard and palmrest condition

>>109722015
The budget sub brand of HP

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>>109781515

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>>109781538
Screenshot from this laptop

>>109769080
istg buying from any professional reseller in 2026 is just asking to get fucked. On ebay I've started filtering to only display private sellers, although I noticed that a noticeable amount of "private" sellers operate the same way as professional resellers

>>109781538
>rubber feet still on it after all this time
Impressive

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>>109782739
That's right this is very often problem on this model. Rubber feets was saved only because laptop almost always was docked in office without any motion (it's hinges are also original and good) and used only by my mom. And after company that owned this laptop just gift this to my mom and she brought it to home and put it in the closet.

It still has original dell wd black hdd that works good without any bad sector

>>109782854
>And after company that owned this laptop just gift this to my mom
That is so fucking generous holy shit, my mom's company wanted their Thinkpad back when they upgraded her from the T480s to the Gen 5 14 inch for Windows 11.

>>109782875
It was in the first half of 2010s in russian energy company. The only thing they want to old computers don't take place on their warehouse so they just use any ways to rid of them. Now big companies became extra greedy

>>109782935
True, especially with the cost of drives and DDR5 the company would never let it slip away, it's kinda tragic because a lot of business laptops are straight up having their RAM and drive taken and sold way before it's time and the rest of the laptop sent to the fucking junkpile instead of living a really long life.

>>109782854
that’s crazy because my mom got the same one from a pharma company and kept it after they got acquired and closed her offices, I got the same laptop from her

Well, the screen sucks and it’s not very powerful and it’s thick but it’s nice, the brushed metal is an interesting aesthetic. I tried setting up an eGPU from the wifi pcie adapter but couldn’t‘t get it to work no matter what, I should try again with an LLM, maybe I can get my 7970 Radeon working

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>>109782973
Anyway modern hardware is dead if you consider this like art. There is no any sense in modern laptops.

>>109782990
> I tried setting up an eGPU from the wifi pcie adapter but couldn’t‘t get it to work
Because wi-fi pci-e connected to southern bridge while videocard connected to northern bridge (that is located on the processor chip in this model) see pic. There is no physical ways to processor(and northern bridge located there) except ram slots and sourthern bridge

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>>109782990
>that’s crazy because my mom got the same one from a pharma company and kept it after they got acquired and closed her offices, I got the same laptop from her
It was just more old and good times. No it became more hard to earn money, there is less good things, more the competitive world. Rising of china, AI, digitalization and globalization do their things

Uh, so I plug in the charger on one newly acquired thinkpad, the indicator is green at first, then it switches to a blinking orange. This is new. So the battery's dead? It's the same even after an hour.

>>109783517
If the thinkpad dies when unplugged, battery is probably done

>>109783551
Nope, green, it works when unplugged. Okay then...

Which thinkpad should I get to put up my ass

>>109784601
X1 carbon, it's so fuckin thin and light it'll just go right in

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>>109717624
Y/N?

>>109785595
Jesus Anon, you could get an 8 core ryzen Thinkpad for that kinda money, people gotta stop with these 8th gen meme laptops because it's getting crazy.

>>109785617
I just want a small windoze companion laptop to keep the firmware in my devices updated. I just don't want an absolutly slow, piece of shit.

>>109785627
I gotchu bro but you've got literal 8 core beast laptops going for the same money as refurb coffee lake things, and kaby lake dual core laptops right before going for less than 1/3 the price and offering 50% the performance

Don't be foolish with your money, Anon... price to performance is what we're after with the chinkpads.

>>109785595
Fuck no! 16GB is admittedly rare, but 256GB NVME, FHD display, highest-specced CPU and it being """refurbished""", does not warrant a $329 price.

For that same amount, you could get a well-specced 8GB X280 and swap out the motherboard, even though that's also ill-advised, since they're around same price as what a 16GB X280 system SHOULD go for, if not higher.

Just wait™ until you come across a system that isn't priced out that ass. A more abundant alternative is a T480s; it's slightly smaller than the regular T480, has a better build quality, and a good display by default--FHD or QHD.

>>109785595
The APU is dogshit if that matters to you and I wouldn't go smaller than 14" personally

>>109786458
>The APU is dogshit
This, it amazes me how much people are willing to pay for a Thinkpad-something80 because quad core, but it's the same UHD 620 and overall 14nm technology as a shitty sub $100 T470 and you can do so much better than what people are charging for these things.

I hate off-center keyboards so fucking much, I'm going to sell my T16 because of it.
So retarded that the only 16 inch ThinkPad with a centered keyboard is the overpriced P1 / T1g

>>109786662
You're not alone Anon, I personally would've loved a T570 with 1080P screen instead of a T470 so things wouldn't be so fucking small at 100% scale but the keyboard is all cocked to the left and retarded like some goofy ass consumer laptop from best buy.

>>109786662
I wish they would swap the FN and CTRL key

>>109786708
Just swap it in the bios ffs.

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>>109786731
Sick thanks for the info

>>109785617
LOL these niggas just CAN'T STOP paying retard money for
>""""""""""refurbished""""""""""
trash from Amazog.

I'm done telling them. I'm fucking done.

>>109786662
P1 looks nice... u think it'll hold in the next 10 years?

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>>109786889
>u think it'll hold in the next 10 years?
I don't know what that means.
Are you asking if it will last you 10 years?

The latest Gen 9 got the new Intel X7/X9 Panther Lake chips which are a big jump in terms of efficiency and iGPU performance.
The P1 always had dogshit battery life, but with these newest chips it seems like that's not as much an issue anymore.
The chassis is unchanged since the Gen 7. Gen 9 has WWAN now after it was removed in previous generations.

I'm personally looking at getting the latest X1 Carbon since the chassis got a huge redesign and USB-C ports are easily replaceable now.

On the US Lenovo Pro Business Store, the X1 Carbon is much cheaper than the T14 for the same config (i5, 32GB, OLED); $2,050 for X1, $2,560 for T14.

In the US, custom configurations aren't available yet for the P1 / T1g Gen 9.

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>>109717624
Should i replace my X201t with a X61t?
I only use the X201outside, in events and at the uni, to mog thinkpadlets; and only for web browsing and writing, i never use the tablet for anything other than showing it off. At home i use a T430.
Downgrading to a X61T would make me lose resolution, DDR3, processor threads and frequency (not that i care too much, to be honest). But I will get cool points in the rare ocasions i go outside. Is it a fair exchange?

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>>109787250
If you want passive chudchadmaxx aura, carry X61t in the original sleeve / case / bag / sling thingy, 41U3142
If you want to genuinely impress people that care, upgrade your X201t with aftermarket parts and custom mods

>>109787366
>carry X61t in the original sleeve / case / bag / sling thingy, 41U3142
That's beautiful. Noted.
>upgrade your X201t with aftermarket parts and custom mods
Any mod other than the usual upgrade of HD, RAM and wireless card (if not whitelisted)?

Btw, i was going to post that pic of a zoomer guy using a X61T (or so i thought) with a big dic girl wallpaper in the middle of the class, but then i saw the pic and it's actually a T60. Still auramaxxing, tho.

>>109787433
Kek that's gangster as fuck he was using chinkpads at such a young age, I didn't even become aware of business laptops until I was 19

>>109787124
sounds good... will probably pick one up next when my t480 decides to croak

>>109788029
>Based 15w ultrabook
>croaking
Guess you're stuck on a T480 anon, that's a Centennial lightbulb ass computer.

>>109788931
we'll see...

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>>109789165
>tfw tech has moved so fucking slow this is still relevant for basic use chinkpads

>>109789165
>>109789779
T560 battery life really is something. Strange that it never reached the level of the other memed models.

>>109735540
>>109735559
real fucking cool actually..

>>109790663
and hopefully it never will chinkpad prices are already bad enough

>>109777642
the one on the left is OLED and it looks nicer

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>that dirt from work and banging around the recycler
>that sexy 0.78 inch profile
I love ultrabook era chinkpads so much it's unreal

Saved this FHD IPS multitouch from the shredder because it deserves to be cleaned up and live

>>109792982
nice

I'm about to buy T480 for my main machine. Only use it for studying, watching videos, and coding.
>why
I want to try libreboot
>it's made by tranny
doesn't care
>why not use newer hardware
don't think I need more. In general, I'd rather not deal with current hardware until DDR6.

Persuade me against doing this.

>>109795527
Apu is really bad AMD is much better than intel but if you aren't going to be gaming it and want trackpoint it will do everything fine. I recommend 16gb of ram

>>109795527
>Persuade me against doing this
Greater than $200 and you're better off with something newer. God help you if, down the line, you decide you want to upgrade its parts lol.

>>109795616
This, 14nm Chinkpads are based but do not overpay for them.

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540 bucks Elitebook in mint condition, the equivalent of X13 G5. Am I doing good /tpg/?

>>109795695
You had me at 1920x1200, and it's 4.5x my laptop's CPU performance, it's nice Anon.

>>109795711
yup, can't wait to wipe this memory hogging wangblows.The 400nits 102% sRGB panel is quite nice too, frankly I don't need OLED panel over this.

>>109795757
>can't wait to wipe this memory hogging wangblows
Based, Windows 10 like it came with cold boots to 2.2GB of RAM on my T470, I don't even know how people deal with it, but 400 nits on a high dpi 13 incher sounds dope, I find myself smashing the brightness up button all the time on my IPS but 250 nits is all it's got, 400 nits would be a dream using it in a well lit area.

>>109789165
This chart doesn't mention RAM which matters a lot even just for simple web browsing. 8 gigs is not enough if you hoard tabs. But still super relevant

>>109795527
>libreboot
Skylake coreboot still isn't very libre. It's beholden to a 0.5 MB blob from Intel for raminit (one that they accidentally released with a BSD license, but still a blob) and 1.1 MB of residual Intel ME. Haswell and older have libre raminit and strip the ME to less than 100 KB.

No way around Skylake though if you want >16 GB RAM in a <=14" laptop.

>>109783714
Oh, there was an ultrabay battery. Apparently the main battery is dead. That sucks, guess I'm buying a new battery and taking out the ultrabay one, I'd rather have more storage or a disc reader

So what's the go to mPCIE Wi-Fi card that'll work on Linux/BSD out of the box? I'm on ProBook 640 G1 though, pretty sure it doesn't have a Wi-Fi whitelist, but some chink sellers say that Intel Wi-Fi cards (in particular 7265) don't work on HP and Lenovo.

>>109798455
Intel 7265

>>109795527
You shouldn't use Libreboot not because of asinine considerations, but instead because its configuration is objectively ass, and its release schedule is inconsistent. You're better off using Coreboot and building your own config. As I understand it, it has the benefit of having fewer blobs, but it's not entirely libre.

>>109799269
Ok, but are you sure it'll work, despite what chink sellers are claiming?

>>109799823
It'll be cool, dude.™

What's the most I should pay for an open box Gen 3 AMD T14s with 32gig RAM?

>>109801276
500 and that's accounting for the inflated reddit prices

I have a 5th gen carbon x1 and I'm looking for an upgrade. What generation/processor should I be looking for? Is there a disadvantage to getting the newer ones? (gen10 and above)

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>>109801939
Based Kaby lake enjoyer, considering that 2017 chinkpads are about as modern and not classical as a thinkpad could be, I don't see any downside to getting something newer, especially if you're into hardcore thin and light ultrabooks like the Carbon X1, efficiency is the name of the game, Would it be cool if my T470 had a classical keyboard? Yes, would I use a 35w piece of shit that goes 60% slower and uses 2.33x more energy? No. Also, you're not even losing anything like upgrade-ability because the Gen 5 Cabron X1 has soldered RAM.

>>109785595

why pay that much when you can get an E590 with the same hardware for 100 bucks? I have one and it's pretty good and the UHD 620 is more than enough as long as you aren't doing AAA gaming, hell I think I got mine to play Warframe.

If you don't need a touch screen just get the E590. I love mine, the battery life is pretty good. The screen is fine, you don't need to pay hipster tax.

>>109801939
Intel 8-10 gen are basically identical. They're better than 6-7th gen in certain multicore workloads and the igpu did get better, but if it were me, I'd either keep what I had, or skip right to 11-12th generation. Skip 13-14, and anything newer is too expensive for /tpg/ anyway and should be ignored.

>>109802514
Don't underestimate the power of /tpg/, there were some real big swinging dicks who had a T470 with 1080P screen when it was brand new if you go back in desuarchive, it feels like a baller laptop right now with it's keyboard all lit up, I would've been the motherfucking man if I had one back when it was a supported business laptop.

>>109801939
The most cost efficient are pretty much the ones the companies are getting rid off, and that's pretty much four-five year old laptops. So you most bang for your bucks is pretty much intel 11th and 12th gen, like T14 gen 2 and 3. The AMD gen 3 has soldered ram so watch out for that, but in general it's the Intel ones that are in abundance and with good prices anyway.
The gen 3 has a 16:10 screen and is slightly smaller and the keyboard is also slightly but noticeably smaller, so you might want to check it out first before you buy.

>>109801939
If you're looking for more options you can include T14s AMD in your search since it's similar in build and weight to the X1C, little thicker but the AMD cpus are a lot nicer

>Notchshit
When will we go back to the rectangle?

>>109802911
Why would anyone choose *s over non-s?

>>109803063
s is less weight, thinner and has better build materials

>>109802928
You faggots get mad about the most trivial shit.

funny how people shill T14s while give no shit to X13. They're essentially the same thing, but X13 is smaller and cheaper. Unlike X270 and older models where X series were based on regular T series.

>>109776417
>>109776534
>It's pretty much the perfect retro machine for XP-era and earlier shit.
Any reason to want a T30 for XP stuff instead of a T60 or is it just a personal preference?
I generally use XP on my T60 instead of my T30 just because it seems like a safer bet.

>>109803479
That's kinda how enshittification goes Anon, it's little by little, first they fuck up the home end insert pg up pg down delete keys on the chinkpad, and then the CPU is soldered, the one of the RAM slots is soldered, then the wifi card is soldered, then both of the RAM slots are soldered, and next thing you know you're just using a less polished PC version of a MacBook Air because you chose to ignore trivial shit that Lenovo does to the laptops that no one asked for.

It's kinda like those autistic ThinkPad videos Rossmann was making in 2014-2015, where he's like "These durable business laptops are fucking chuds that ship with Windows with shit displays and battery life, why are you fucking with the keyboard when nobody asked? Instead of making them smaller thinner with better battery life and screen, I have never seen a thinkpad user bitching about the placement of the webcam on the top of a laptop, the notch is just copying other companies just to change something.

>>109802514
>>109802671

I bought my Precision 7560 with Xeon w-11855 and 128gb RAM when 12th gen had just dropped,, not everyone here is broke. I've gotten so much use out of it the keyboard is due for replacement because the WSAD, E and a couple other keys are worn down to the bare plastic. I'm probably going to step it up to the octocore w-11955 board here soon and give it a full cleaning and repaste. This thing has been with me through thick and thin.

>>109751497
>>109754092
and now i've finally caught up with kimi ni todoke after 13 years of keeping this show in the back of my mind what do u mean season 3 only has 5 episodes good lord.

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>>109717624
I have a spare xx30 keyboard, does anyone know if there will be major problems if I plug it in to my T510? I'm fully aware the keybinds are different I just want to know if I can still use the laptop until I get a real replacement.

>>109805434
Didn't copy the whole text, oops. The ribbon of my cheap chinese 7-row is torn clean apart and I don't have another keyboard on hand except for an xx30 one.

>>109805434
If it fits, it sits. Most of the keys will work.

Where can I get a good used thinkpad in India without being jeeted?

>>109795695
Where'd you get it from?

>>109808855
From somewhere that isn't India.

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Made a list of final 4:3 laptops from various companies. Top is 12'' and bottom 14''.

Thinkpad wins both for rocking full speed penryn, apparently some dells can be configured to run penryn as well but this is unconfirmed by me as of now.

14.1'' VGN-BX is particularly pretty however, and i prefer it's keyboard to T61

>>109809343
This. Jugaad culture and Izzat farming guarantees you're going to get jeeted by Indian sellers.

>place an order through lenovo
>2 weeks go by
>"your order has been delayed"
>2 weeks go by
>"your order has been canceled"
>price of the cancelled config i ordered doubled on their website
thanks niggers

>>109808855
Pretty sure it's as bad as in Russia. The cult is well established here and the prices are ridiculous. For example, you won't find a T480 with 8 GB RAM and 256 GB SSD for less than $200, but for $150 it's not a problem to find a Latitute or EliteBook on the same 8th gen i5/i7.

>>109811696
AI is so retarded they probably couldn't even build your laptop due to lack of parts, that's why I'm hoarding what I can get desu, end of personal PCs is real.

>10 day old thread
Jesus I remember these lasting a shorter period than that...

>>109775471
Store?

I'm wanting to pull the trigger on a t480. I read that this model has issues with Thunderbolt charging that could kill the laptop unless a firmware upgrade was done? What exactly happens?

Anyway, I asked about this on the one I want to buy, they told me this: https://pastebin.com/whzybjMW

Can anyone tell me if this is good/bad?
It comes with a Lenovo branded USB-C charger

>>109810973
is your goal using a 4:3 laptop in 2026? or you just want to document which models are among the last ones?

>>109812446
He doesn't have any more T470 in stock but looking at his feedback he's the only motherfucker selling T480 for a reasonable price of $150 or so when he did have them, so the guy lives on this planet, especially selling a T470 complete got $80 total

https://www.ebay.com/str/techloop30

>>109811853
if you're not married to thinkpad sticker and coreboot or libreboot. Latitude 5400 is genuinely the best option for business grade 14 incher with gen 8 intel. Essentially a T490 but does not suck, it still got the nipple too

>>109812467
it's on version 23, so you don't got to worry about it now.

>>109812467
>What exactly happens?
Too many writes to the controller, which causes it to produce nerve gas. It can be overwritten with an SPI programmer.
>>109812235
/g/ is kill. 4chan is kill.

>>109812604
Exactly my point. The chinkpad cult is just sheeple worshiping the brand, while not paying attention to other brands, who often have better deals.
>muh coreboot/libreboot
Just use me_cleaner to get rid of ME and don't bother.

>>109810973
3:2 is pretty comfy and it's picking up some steam in laptops these days, and 4:3 content looks at home on it without too much pillar boxing. Anything "squarer" than 16:9/16:10 is pretty nice to use though.

>>109812771
I like chinkpads for the clit mouse and the old 7-row layout being the best conversion of a full keyboard into a laptop keyboard. But I agree, apart from the trackpoint modern thinkpads are mostly interchangable with other business class laptops. I guess the newest ones stand out again with their really impressive repairability, but those are brand new and so won't be phased out by businesses for another 5 years

>>109813177
>3:2 is pretty comfy and it's picking up some steam in laptops these days
Ikr, what a bizzare time period to see 16:10 and 3:2 rise up, I thought we were gonna be stuck on 1080p screens forever on expensive ass laptops, and to see 1920x1200 and double that res if it's a high dpi scaley-boi even on gaming laptops? It's like the 2000s again, I'm loving it.

>>109803517
T30 has a couple of legacy ports the T60 doesn't. A serial port, a parallel port, an Ultrabay that supports the floppy drive extension. It would theoretically be the perfect little machine to interface with old hardware.

>>109813186
>double that res if it's a high dpi scaley-boi
personally, I'd rather have more 200dpi intermediates - that's as high as my eyes can process without any scaling on a typical laptop distance.

Since I'm computer illiterate so I came here to ask. Would I get scammed for buying this? My PC is getting slow.

499€
Acer NITRO V15:
- RTX 4060 8GB
- FHD 165Hz monitor
- AMD Ryzen 7735HS
- AMD680
- 1TB storage
- Windows 11 Pro

>>109812604
And at that point just get an identical 5420 and not fuck with legacy tier performance. Imagine that someone made multiple generations without fucking up the formula

>>109810973
Work has a Panasonic unit with a 3rd Gen i5 that's 4:3

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>>109814873
Panasonic made these all the way up to 7th gen i7 7600U

What's the most should I pay for a Gen 5 AMD T14 with soldered 16g RAM?

>>109717624
>T495
>when typing fast, some of the letters get skipped or they switch places
>looking it up, it seems to be some kind of keyboard hardware polling bug, where if you typ eletters faster than it can poll them, they get skipped
Are there any solutions?
I have the latest bios and drivers. "typ eletters" in thi spost is the example of sch error (as is "thi spost" and sch in such).

>>109812771
trackpoint + middle-click button are non-negotiable now. Other laptops have pointing sticks but no middle button.

>>109814602
Same, I think the 157ppi of my T470 1080P is the highest one should go because scaling is retarded and doesn't work sometimes, even on Windows 10 it'll just blow up the apps all blurry and you may as well just look at em small because at least it's sharp.

>>109817426
same, I probably wouldn't use anything above 1080p on a laptop, but I just don't like scaling, wouldn't use it even if it worked for me (didn't use it back when I was still on Windows 10, still not using it on Linux)

>>109817461
Kek the shit scaling on Linux is also why I don't believe in stupid high dpi screens, because if you've got a based X11 distro it won't work and you're kinda screwed, XFCE has no clue how to fractional, Cinnamon will do fractional scaling but it lags and window tears like a biatch, luckily my ppi isn't crazy but I feel bad for guys with 4K on a laptop.

>>109817563
>because if you've got a based X11 distro
of course, I'm on Artix with xfce

>>109816173
$0, because this model doesn't real. It's either a T14 gen 5 with SODIMMs, or one of T14s, T14 gen 5 Intel (V series), or T14 gen 1-4 with soldered RAM.

>>109818053
Based T14 G5, I'm probably gonna slam 64GB into one of those bitches when they became cheap enough and that'll be my next main machine, cause that's a better computer than the T480 in my opinion.

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>7300U which means it's no better than a T470 and can't even install Windows 7 officially
>96 viewed today for an auction of a laptop that should be $100 or so
Holy fuck social media has got people acting funny

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>bidding on some stinkpads without any intention of buying
>I'm probably just in a bidding war with the seller's bot

>>109820931
Kek, and here I thought I was devilish for just watching people's listing without buying, which makes them lower price or make offers to sell it.

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>>109820998
It's exciting because there's a chance I might actually win and have to buy it.

>>109821049
Based, you literally can't lose.

>>109812732
Thank you.
>>109812733
>which causes it to produce nerve gas
kek

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Thinking of buying this to give me the ability to use my Thinkpad with ded batteries, as well as my ancient Core 2 on the go, are they any good?

I just think it's a little silly to buy questionable chinkshit batteries for an ancient Lenovo just to occasionally use it out of the house, when a battery bank will power anything 65w or less and it's fucking huge.

Do P53 4K OLEDs burn in badly? I can get one that doesn't seem to have noticeable burn-in, but I'm not sure how long it'll last