>>110114960Don't buy anything other than IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T, X, and W/P Series if you want the Real Business Experience™Other business laptops are welcome in /tpg/ (Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook)Why ThinkPad?>Used machines are plentiful and cheap>Utilitarian design: e.g. mix of old and new ports, stable keyboard layout>Easy to repair, upgrade (some models) & maintain thanks to readily available service manuals, spare parts easy to obtain>Usable in cramped quarters thanks to the TrackPoint>Excellent Linux & *BSD supportThinkWiki - General infohttps://www.thinkwiki.org/Model generations:>Classic IBM: T40-T42>IBM/Lenovo transition: T43 T60 T61 (T42-T43: significant spec difference; T43-T60: 64-bit arch)>Classic Lenovo: T400-T430 (T61-T400: 4:3 to 16:10; T410-T420: 16:10 to 16:9; T420-T430: 6-row keyboard, USB 3)>Boxy ultrabooks: T440-T480 (T430-T440: eDP, M.2, soldered CPU; T460-T470: NVMe, USB-C)>Thin above all: T490 T14g1 T14g2 (T480-T490: soldered WiFi (Intel), partly soldered RAM, internal battery only)>TrackPoint on a pig: T14g3 T14g4 (T14g2-T14g3: 16:9 to 16:10, fully soldered RAM/WiFi (AMD), end of mechanical docks)>iFixit-approved TrackPoint on pig: T14g5-... (T14g4-T14g5: Ctrl/Fn swap, camera bump, modular RAM returns)FAQ:>Oldest that won't choke on the modern webLight use: x60YouTube, Gmail etc: xx00(s)>Oldest that drives a 4K monitorxx40(p/s)>Oldest that takes 32 GB RAMX260 T460p/s W510>Lasts full day on batteryT550 T560 X260 xx70 Tx80 T16 and any Lunar Lake>Newest with socketed CPUT440p W541BIOS replacement:https://coreboot.org/ | https://libreboot.org/ | https://canoeboot.org/Supports x60 xx00(s)-xx30(s) T440p W54x T470s xx80(s)Additional resources:https://dankpads.com/tpg/ | https://biosimage.booru.org/ | https://github.com/n4ru/1vyrainPatches:https://github.com/digmorepaka/thinkpad-firmware-patcheshttps://github.com/hamishcoleman/thinkpad-ecChat:##ibmthinkpad on libera | #/tpg/ on rizon
>>110123382What is the most powerful ThinkPad?
Is it normal for a t14g2 to just randomly shut down after I put it to sleep?Just put it to sleep and came back after an hour to the inital windows login screen and just as I was signing in with my fingerprint the screen went black and it rebooted, showing the lenovo logo.
I just had AI hold my hand to upgrade my T430s that was on Windows 7 to Linux. I never used Linux before. But AI told me to install Zorin OS and helped with every step even when there was an issue with installing the n-video drivers. Now everything just werks. Neat, thanks for reading my blog.
>>110125460Congratulations on your first time using AI pajeet
>>110125460it’s a good way to transition but don’t be too dependent on it, eventually it’ll fuck up your entire system
>>110125387they told me it was a safety feature
>>110124730P16 Gen 3
>>110124730The one with me behind the keyboard
>>110125606Ya AI is having a hell of a time why my system is not waking up from sleep when i close the lid for over 30mins.
posting this from my Dell Latitude 3420
You guys think I should replace the thermal paste?
>>110127479>Dell Latitude 3420I wasn't impressed with 5320 build quality, 3420 should be a rebranded inspiron crap.get a real big boys latitude fren, 5470, 5480, 5400 are some nice, chunky and somewhat modern models
>>110127649you already opened it so yes
>>110127711I know, just funny seeing how crusted up it is. I put PTM 7950 on there so it should be good for a while. I hear these thinkpads with the vapor chambers run through thermal past pretty hard
Anybody know where I can get a replacement caps lock key?
>>110128490Just hold shift. Unless you have it bound for something important, like rebinding esc to caps for vim.
>>110128490Just replace the whole keyboard and get a civilized ANSI layout. I hate those weird big Enter short Shift layouts so much. A lot of ThinkPads in my country come from western europe with this trash layout, so I swap them for US ANSI keyboards whenever possible
>>110130262Based ANSI enjoyer, I always thought it was my burger bias that thought the rectangle enter key looked the best, but I guess others like it, too.
>>110128490>reprinted keyboardDo yourself a favor and replace the whole keyboard with one that hasn't been violated
>>110130262ISO > ANSIenjoy hitting that little backtick key when you go for enter
I miss using my x200.
>>110136669What happened to it?
>>110136716I'm trying to remember but I think the mobo died. Such a great keyboard on that thing
>>110136782Same thing happened to me.
I swear theyre throwing these damn things out of the window where they then get run over by a car before going to the recycler, but corpo trash is my treasure.
