>>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.
mom needs a new laptop should I get her a macbook neo or a thinkpad? I would prefer a thinkpad with linux but she is not very good with technology still tries to tap the screen every now and then despite working on the pc all day. So windows or macos I doubt prices are going to go down in the future...
