Love me boxy ultrabook, simple as

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It's 2026, and this is how I go to uni

>>109994709
>1080p screen
>420 keyboard in a 430 which means you get USB 3.0
>decked the fuck out QM i7 that's stronger than my Kaby Lake U-shit processor
Based as fuck laptop

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>>109994748
>decked the fuck out QM i7 that's stronger than my Kaby Lake U-shit processor
It's actually funny how this 45W portable meltdown just gets shit done. Almost without fail it beats the budget garbage almost everyone in my class runs, even if it uses an order of magnitude more power. Feels snappier and never struggles with enterprise-ware (ever used Cisco packet tracer?).
Also having actual ports just makes this laptop invaluable for half the hardware projects we do.

>>109994709
>not 480 with t25 keyboard

>>109994879
Once I can afford it, I'll get a T61 with an aftermarket mobo or similar, assuming such things are still available couple years from now.

>>109994980
I don't think they're available now. That chingchong T61 thing was years ago.

>>109995020
This, also Core 2 stuff is really becoming not worth buying, use it if you got it, I love my core 2 shit but I wouldn't buy core 2 shit in 2026.

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>the charging port went to shit
FUCK MY FUCKING STUPID CHUD LIFE

>>109994603
I'm looking for a fan controller for my P15 Gen 2. The only thing I could find on it was to change power settings in Windows. Outside of that I found a few patchwork solutions but have yet to find one made for the P series. Does anyone have any reccomendations.
>inbf Your going to fry your PC
I'm looking to increase the speed of the fans, since their already quiet and the machines running warm when charging or under load.

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>T14 Gen 2 Ryzen 7 Pro 5850U 32GB ram 256GB SSD
This will be the first thinkpad I've ever used, this a decent choice? Was $399

>>109997664
Why image sideways wtf lol, weird Samsung/Android

>>109997690
EXIF rotation my newfriend

>>109997796
Thanks anon. What a strange issue, I guess 4chan can't correctly read the EXIF data to reorientate it.

>>109997859
It intentionally removes it, because it historically has included things like your fucking GPS coordinates

>>109997881
Well that's fucked. Obviously a jew that came up with that idea.

should I get a T560 for 100 bucks or should I keep waiting for a reasonably priced AMD 2. gen T14, those are my only two options I realise they are fairly different laptops

>>109997988
Some dude in the previous thread told me if you're buying a thinkpad nowadays the best price to performance is the t14 gen 2 usually, avoid any earlier models if possible.

>>109997988
p14s seems to be the best overall option, rather than the t14/t14s. And definitely no t560 unless you're looking to dumpster dive.

>>109997988
>>109998030
Yeah, I can't really see any reason now to get anything from after the --30s and before the first generation of the new naming schemes. Maybe an X395 if you can get a good one for cheaper than an X13. Otherwise you're spending money on laptops that are neither fun to fuck around with and mod extensively like the 30s and earlier nor remotely good by current hardware standards.

whats the difference beteeen the T/E/L/P versions of the thinkpad. Have the option beteeen a newer L14 for $300 (ryzen 7k) and an older T14 with the ryzen 4k for $200. Also see a few e-series ones in a similar range.

Build quality level essentially.
P>T>L>E most agree you prioritize P & T, L & E are shit.

>>109997690
Just screenshot and crop next time, fixes the orientation.

Are thinkpad yogas any good? I know regular yogas get a lot of shit because they break easily so I have doubts about the thinkpad ones, would they be as durable as regular thinkpads?
The exact specific model is x1 yoga gen 4

>>110002011
the X1 yogas are good

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Do I buy these or not?

T470 + T470s bundle for $110, so $55 each. Both are tested and working. The 3rd one is a T460s, but it doesn't turn on, so I'm not counting it toward the price. The $110 is for all 3.

T470: i5-7200U
T470s: i7-7600U

They don't have RAM or SSDs though

>>110002027
if you're going to invest 100s of dollars into making them functional, sure.

>>110002027
Add used RAM and SSD prices in your cunt and see if it works out. I've resold xx70 pads with 16 RAM and 256 SSD for $120-130.

>>110002027
>T470 + T470s bundle for $110, so $55 each
Very based, I've paid typically $75 to $113 for a working kaby lake T470

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>>110002128
>>110002145
>>110002296
Thanks for the replies. Bought the bundle because I didn't have the T470s yet, but yeah, I won't buy RAM and SSDs at these rape prices. I'll wait for a good deal, for now they'll just be in storage.
I'm basically building a ThinkPad stockpile for the AI wasteland era. Future laptops will probably have AI hardware or some other shit that won't let you do or watch anything without an internet connection and paying a subscription.

>>110002360
>I'm basically building a ThinkPad stockpile for the AI wasteland era
Literally me, I thought I was crazy for hoarding AMD FX DDR3 shit new in box, Coffee Lake DDR4 shit new in box years ago, never would I think that DDR4 or even some high end DDR3 rigs are becoming relevant again because it's all people can afford, not to mention my collection of T470, those things should've been made irrelevant years ago with progression of technology, but because people can't get RAM and laptops are pathetic, a T470 or T480 with 32GB of RAM shoved in there is literally better from a laptop from the store, it's insane. While I'm not sure hardware itself would become locked down by AI, the people who did hoard a bunch of stuff will at least have computers to use should hardware just become prohibitively expensive.

Can the screen in a t480s be swapped into a t480? Or would it be better to use the t480s over the t480? I have both and the palmrest in the t480 feels nicer than the one in the t480s but it doesnt have a 1080p screen while the t480s does

>>110002960
Hell yeah anon, the 1080p screens are the same panel and connector, go and give your T480 the good screen it deserves.

>>110002960
I'd just buy a better panel off aliexpress for the T480 personally (which is exactly what I did) but yeah they can be swapped

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I recently purchased an customer returned HP with an *advertised* battery capacity, both in hours and Wh. What's the best way/software to test the capacity so that I don't get fucked over?

Is there anything else I should remember to check? Display is blemishless, it doesn't have a dead smell either

>>110003510
Or if it's the wrong general because the laptop is too cheap, where should I ask around instead?

>>110003510
To check for battery fishiness I boot a Loonix live image and let it discharge from a full battery, screen on with some light workload running, while it logs battery data from sysfs (/sys/class/power_supply/BAT0) every minute or so to the internal disk or another USB stick. If the percentage doesn't jump and it doesn't shut off early then it's fine.

>>110003525
>because the laptop is too cheap
Kek a laptop can never be too cheap for /tpg, our goal is fucking free if we could.

>>110003370
Any recommendations where to look on aliex for the panel?

>>110003977
I bought mine from there: https://aliexpress.com/item/1005004607643355.html
but it seems it's not available anymore. you can see if you find other sellers that sell the same panel, just contact them first to make sure they are sending the actual panel and not an equivalent. you'll need to get a pair of brackets like those too: https://aliexpress.com/item/1005007102433351.html
the panel itself is great, 1500:1 contrast, 400 nits, low power. I have it in both my T480 and A485

>>110004086
>400 nits
Based chink screen, my T470 is kinda cucked at 250 nits on the IPS panel

Is a a485 for daily drawing, web surfing, and retro gaming still viable?

>>110004116
yeah, was the same with the original panels on my Thinkpads, I just wanted nicer ones. not sure if that applies to the T470 as well (I assume it does) but the default panel on the T480 only displays 6-bit color (262k colors total) instead of the 16.2M colors on a normal 8-bit display. it's very noticeable

>>110004129
yeah, should be. the CPU is slightly weaker than that of the T480 but the integrated GPU is a lot better. battery life is about the same, maybe very slightly lower

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What do I install on it?
>inb4 gentoo
already have a t430 with that suggest something else

>>110005064
Windows 2000 with all the mods

>>110005144
This, when a laptop gets so old and unusable, you're in museum piece territory, put the period correct OS on it and preserve the thing.

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>>110005144
>>110005187
I was honestly thinking OpenBSD, assuming its even viable on a grandpa like this. Never used BSDs before.
I also need a hideously underpowered machine to test the software I release on, I could kill two birds with one brickpad.

>>109994709
I'm also unemployed

>>110005064
Those old bios splash screens look really nice. Wish someone would try to recreate it for coreboot seabios

>>110005064
I dare you....do it.
https://aros.sourceforge.io/

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>>110005332
Ok I do need to see this kitty on this T30 at least once.
It's missing a hard drive and I don't have any CDs so sadly I am unable to deliver for a week or two.

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>>110005332
An Amiga furfag OS, sounds like an abomination.

>>110005321
Ask AI to do it for you.

hey anons
do you think that the x1 carbon is a good laptop for someone who is about to enter medschool? I want to buy two for my nieces but im not sure if the x1 will be enough because I want a laptop that if possible would last their whole student life or at the very least till they make it to residency/internship, Im not familiar with that med students actually need in a laptop so Im not sure if im being overkill with the x1. honestly im also thingen of a bsns dell or depending on price the macbook air or a pro

>>110006748
What gen?
Anyway I'm using a fucking T430 for embedded software engineering, literally anything should be fine

>>110006821
>What gen?
im looking at the latest up to maybe 3 years ago, I want to give them a brand new laptop and if im being honest I think for a laptop that I think its gonna be mostly used to do basic stuff ( office, read books,pdfs etc ) I will be overspending but at the same time I want to gift something nice

>>109994860
amazing how we are even able to build such monster machines. will be lost tech in 50 years if not before after the fossil fuel glut ends

>>109994860
Is that a typical hardware project at your uni?

>>110002360
.....and my mother calls me a hoarder.....

Does anyone have this original W520 commercial without subs?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfXd-1QZk08

seems like main lenovo account already nuked their old videos. Oh and the rebrand CM video of T14 G1 / X13 G1 / L14 G1 please.

>>109998518
How true is this and would it fit into the op post? Also how do s models usually fit into the build quality rating

>>110009098
It's pretty true, I have the most beat to fuck T470 and it still works and feels absolutely beautiful when you handle it and type, no flex even at 0.78'' thin, it's all the brick of an old T series, without the bulk, I wouldn't go any cheaper than a T series, even if I could get an E480 for the same money as a T470 I wouldn't do it because you're giving up so much in the way of build quality, and you will feel the cheapness every time you use it.

>>109994709

I studied software engineering 2012-2016 and did the whole program on an x220.

Most of the fortune 500 still has a massive amount of linux servers running as critical infrastructure and 90% of my colleagues cant even navigate the file system without asking AI for the commands.

>open screen, hear a small electrical pop, thinkpad now won't turn on
it's over

>>110010004
What were you trying to do?

>>110010251
nothing. I had it in sleep mode and moved it to a different room, set it on the table in said room, and as I opened the screen (I had closed it so I could carry it) I heard a soft electrical pop and it instantly shut off as if someone had yanked the plug a desktop PC. now it won't power on at all, doesn't respond to being plugged in, nothing. totally dead.

>>110009098
Mostly true. Some T/P models don't live up to the name and some L/E models are built just as well as T/P (e.g. L440) but it's hard to go wrong buying a T/P. T4xxs/T14s are a little more rigid and premium-feeling than base T but lose a good amount of modularity (T480s and earlier: SATA bay and different battery sizes, T490s and later: Ethernet port and replaceable RAM and keyboard).
>>110009199
Agree. My E490 lasted less than two years before the first cracks in the case and my T470 is still doing fine.

I hate the rubberized coating on my X13, shits so fucking hard to clean
Why can't we have METAL COMPUTERS or at least whatever they used back in the IBM days

>>110010469
it was metalised rubber

>>110010469
It's because they dent Anon, that's why rubberized coating on reinforced fiberglass, magnesium/carbon shit was chosen, because it is so resistant to being dropped and scratched, The Apple Macbook pro is beautiful compared to a Thinkpad when it is new, but after several years of being banged around, the Thinkpad will look like it is minor scratches and scuffs despite being thrown around as a work machine but otherwise in good condition, meanwhile if someone hasn't babied their Macbook Pro, it will become covered in dings when it is dropped, the corners can become bent if it lands on the corner, the anodized finish becomes fucking horrible when scrached, that's why the color black and rubberized material are so fantastic.

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Bamp

>>110012085
Didn't mean to select a picture of a tire but whatever

>>110010469
>>110010499
Did the newer chinkpads actually ditch it?

>>110012223
I just touched my mom's work T14 Gen 5 and it feels about the same as my T470

>>110012261
Rubberized coating is only on the lid for T470 I think.

are there any differences at all between the second gen amd T14 and the P14s?

My trackpoint is working like shit, sometimes it just moves on its own all over the screen

>>110013575
All trackpoints have always been this way. They're the biggest meme ever.

>>110012752
p14s has much better build quality and actually made of something a bit more serious than chinesium plastic.

>>110012752
None at all in hardware, only in firmware. The first P14s AMD that can have different hardware than the same gen T14 is gen 6.
>>110013989 isn't true. The only two parts of the case that are "different" are the bottom cover and bezel, and the difference is just the text printed on the plastic.

>>110013989
>>110014362
are the thermals about the same too? the prices over here are all over the place and either one can end up being cheaper am I losing out on anything getting one over the other?

Why aren't the nipple sizes standardised across the models

>>110014362
>shitty plastic is the same as full magnesium
retarded or just pretending

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T14 gen 1.
What OS?

>>110014543
Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon or XFCE, but then updated to become 22.3 so that you stay on the stable 6.8 Ubuntu LTS, for some reason when I've tried the 22.3 ISO with the 6.14 kernel, software update will take you to the 7.0 Kernel, which breaks software like virtualbox in the software center and who knows whatever else, as well as straight up breaking the OS upon reboot on my T470, but when I installed the original 22 and then updated while staying on 6.8 Kernel, it never broke.

>>109994709
I just librebooted my T430, T440p and X220t, I heard i can fit a third gen Intel in the X220t, should I?

>>110014543
Xubuntu, it's less bloated than Mint and has a minimal install option.

>>110012261
Thank you for touching.
Any info about the "s" versions? I thought they had an aluminium lid?

>>110014426
Women or thinkpads?

>>110016428
well it's a thinkpad thread but either one works if you have the answers

>>109994709
How did you install TealWM?

>>110014426
Oh I thought they were. In the same production year, atleast.
But I'd guess due to different key spacing across models and possibly available space below the keyboards.

>>110014383
P14s has its power limits set higher but you can change them with RyzenAdj or whatever its Windows version is.

>>110014522
Are you high? Both are GFRP outside and PC/ABS palmrest with a thin sheet of magnesium inside.

>>110018306
It's full plastic, numbnuts
>oooh but under the keyboard
Get your brain checked. Someone so retarded has never been found before

>>110018341
Where is your full magnesium P14s?
>>oooh but under the keyboard
Why do you think I said "thin"

>>110018353
Because you're profoundly retarded, obviously.
>Where is your full magnesium P14s?
Everywhere, you double nigger. Magnesium, aluminum, or a mix.

>>110016572
I wrote it

>>109994603
Help a paranoid anon out. I can hear these little sounds coming from my X280's CPU when it's under load. I just got this thing. Is this normal behavior?

>>110019765
No

I have a spare IBM AC Adapter

FRU: 08k8203
16 V / 4,5 A / 72 W
5,5 × 2,5 mm

I don't even have a IBM Thinkpad, what do with it?

>>110019765
It's the VRM.
>>110020084
Wrong.

>>110019765
Maybe it's coil whine? My X13 had a similar problem. You can try to limit the cstates to either 3 or 1 by using these kernel parameters: processor.max_cstate=1 intel_idle.max_cstate=0
After using this for a while my X13 is quiet even when not using these.

>>110020108
Retard

>>110018379
Look closely at the P on your P14s's bezel. Are you really really sure it doesn't sort of look like a T?
P14s = T14 != T14s

>>110023205
Inbred or retarded?

>>110019765
Fan?

>>110019765
Post it (the noise and the X280).

Could either be coil whine, or the fan's bearings.

>>110023709
No. I popped the bottom and it was in the location of the CPU. I guess it was the VRM but idk for sure.
>>110023915
The fan is brand new since I replaced it, so probably coil whine in the VRM?

>>110023926
What CPU?

Got myself a nice P15 Gen 1, about time to retire my ZBook 15 G1, although it's gonna stay in reserve since I guess it's still in good working condition. But the lowest tier TN display was just atrocious, I couldn't hande it anymore. It had like 15 to 40 degrees viewing angle depending on direction.

I was considering slapping some cheap IPS on it but they're a bit of a gamble in terms of parameters (contrast, brightness, angles? Who cares, right?) and compatibility. Although I might still do that eventually since Good Old Haswell with 32Gigs is still a perfectly good web browsing machine.

Always wanted to try a ThinkPad though, since I've always been using HP's business laptops before. Although later gen ZBooks were also tempting.

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I replaced optical disk drive with HDD. What can I do to prevent it from spinning up when booting or waking up from sleep? I only intend to use once in a while

>>110029616
remove it when not in use

>>110029616
have you tried changing your boot order and disabling waking

>>110029683
It's internal SATA so not removable. The disk is inside drive bay enclosure
>>110029892
I don't think it's included in boot order. I think firmware simply starts up everything connected. Maybe corebooting would allow more tweaking?

>>110029616
Try the boot order in BIOS settings; try putting the CD drive after your boot drive.

If that doesn't work, set up fstab (in Linux) so that it doesn't get mounted; write a script for mounting it.

Finally, if neither of those work, just unscrew the drive bay and pull it out like a based retard whenever you don't need it. Probably not hot-swappable though...
>>110032110
Coreboot doesn't just magically allow you to do whatever you want with your system lol.

>Thinkpad T14 Gen 2 arrives in 3 days
This is my first ever thinkpad, what's the first thing I'm supposed to do with it bros?

>>110034087
Blow it out, whie it down with a little isoprobyl and put whatever you want on it, Anon.

>>110034088
Okay thanks. Are the SSDs they come with any decent speed wise? I have a random spare gen 4 ssd but not sure if that would work in it.

>>110034102
Anon, I have a piece of shit from like 4 years before the Gen 2 and I'm getting like 1600 MB/s on the NVMe, so you're gonna be fine.

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>preparing libreboot for my T420
>injecting vendor files
>run the ./mk script in the lbmk/ root dir, pass the tar filename
>!!ABORT TRAP: empty path prefix 'boarddir'; DIRECTORY ESCAPE!!" ERROR!
>"UNHANDLED ERROR" "x_" "/home/user/lbmk/mk" "inject" "libreboot-26.01rev1_t420_8mb.tar.xz" ERROR!
I've been stuck on this for a while, and this isn't even a step that's supposed to be challenging. Can't find the exact issue documented anywhere, and LLMs keep trying to send me on a goose chase. I also tried to finish this on another machine, but ran into entirely separate issues getting the dependencies to even install lmao. I guess I could try just scrapping everything and starting over? Maybe I bungled something along the way

>>110034572
Poast the commands ur using.

If ur using the right commands, then I assume you probably have the tar.xz in another directory. If you don't want to add the ./mk script to your PATH, then just use the absolute path to it (I assume it's in ur downloads, so it'd be ~/Downloads/*tar.xz

>>110034102
Gen 4 will work at gen 3 (x4) speeds ie ~3.2 GB/s.

How fast a drive it comes with is a lottery. Resellers are stuffing their laptops with anything they can get so it might be an ancient drive barely faster than SATA.

>>110023926
Here's a good video demonstrating the symptom. It's coil whine from the VRM.
https://youtu.be/blyswNKEPEY?si=zWM2lgZKmZ8qzXb0

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>>110034660
Rechecked the libreboot docs:
>./mk inject libreboot-RELEASE_targetname.tar.xz
Expected to be run from inside the lbmk/ directory, with the tar.xz in there I suppose. I did try the full path, but that also did not work unfortunately. But oh man if that had been it. Smoove off etc. Also tried copying the tar to Downloads/ just to see and got the same error.
Anyway I scrapped the whole lbmk/ folder this morning, all of my downloaded files so far and just started over. Somehow it now Just Works!! I definitely did something wrong last night. Missed a command or mistyped something. Anyway thanks for your suggestions. pic unrelated it's a guy's 'bread' from /ck/

>>110039063
Sad underbaked bread.

>>110039063
Worst bread I've ever seen.