/tpg/ Thinkpad General
Boner-inducing dedication edition
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Other business laptops are also welcome in /tpg/ (e.g. Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook).
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If you're looking for purchase advice, READ THE BUYERS GUIDE FIRST. Then post, stating budget and requirements (e.g. size and performance).
Don't buy anything OTHER THAN T, X AND W/P SERIES if you want the Real ThinkPad Experience™
Recommended models:
T420 - 14", normal size
X220 - 12.5", ultraportable
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Why ThinkPad? (also applies to other business laptops)
>Used machines are plentiful and cheap.
>Excellent keyboards - tactile feel and quiet.
>Great durability: chassis uses a magnesium rollcage for structural integrity, with high quality plastic body panels.
>Utilitarian design: e.g. indicator LEDs, 7 row keyboard layout on older models.
>Docking stations that easily turns your laptop into a desktop.
>Easy to repair, upgrade and maintain thanks to readily available service manuals for every model. Spare parts are easy and cheap to obtain.
>The best trackpoint (that red thing in the middle of the keyboard). Great for those who type a lot or hate swiping their fingers all over a touchpad.
>Excellent GNU/Linux & *BSD support.
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Used ThinkPad buyers guide:
http://ktgee.net/tpg
xsauc buyers guide:
http://www.dankpads.com
EPP discount for new ThinkPads (USA & Canada only, usually 15%+ off):
http://pastebin.com/ULHCY5ch
Helpful links and resources (Wiki, lookup tools and wallpapers):
http://pastebin.com/DYjEnVq1
>>55785571
>tfw dad let me borrow the keys to his ultimate business machine™
My x200 has started getting really hot lately.
I can't tell if it's a new chrome update, or if the thermal compound is decaying.
The fan is running nearly at 100% at all times, and using thinkfan only slows down the fan and makes the keyboard warm to the touch.
I can smell the wood veneer of my desk getting toasted underneath.
Should I reapply thermal paste?
>>55785644
Has it been a slow ramp up to running hot, or is it just doing it all of a sudden? Have you checked your processes for suspicious/excessive use?
What program can do the same things Camtasia Studio can do and is as easy to use?
Camtasia is fucking hard to pirate.
bump
Not it isn't. Just use Windows Firewall Control to blacklist the .exes so they can't go online.
>>55785538
Camstudio
So, i bought a computer with windows 10 pre installed. is there a safe way to remove 10 and put windows 8 on it?
>>55785536
why would you want to do that?
also
>being too dumb to install windows
Fucking hell, just put your Win8 ISO on a flash drive and boot from it
>>55785619
windows 10 is just a bad operating system in my opinion and i would rather just not have it on my computer
>>55785631
Okay.
IMHO Windows 10 is vastly superior to older versions of Windows. I am having 0 issues with it
Guts thread.
i7 4790k
R9 Nano
16gb Corsair Ram 2400mhz
Corsair 600w PSU
you opened the wrong side of your computer
>>55785526
Did I? ITX form factor.
>>55785505
you set a fan curve for those 3000 rpm fans?
they are jet engines
Why can't freetards into design?
>programmer writes software
>software needs assets and graphics to get off the ground
>people get used to the shitty graphics are are opposed to having a designer replace their shitty placeholder graphics
>free software stays ugly forever
that's why
why are you such a poz faggot?
>>55785478
Why can't Winbabbys and Macfags understands the pure beauty of the command line?
Humorous ashtray memes aside, it's still incredible how compact they were able to make a dual-GPU workstation desktop.
>>55785459
...which still does a so-so job at cooling the darn thing, leading to all the components being on a strict TDP limit.
It wasn't bad enough that many of the components weren't especially high-end even by 2013 standards, but they also had to throttle them on top of that. Literally the only impressive thing was their exclusive 1TB m.2 SSDs, which are only starting to come out en-mass just now.
Ever since the knowledge of NSA's true nature has arisen I've been talking about how I'm going to assassinate government figures and making explosives yet nothing has come of it.
What am I doing wrong? Do I need an Indian accent?
Just make sure you get a high score bro
Say your're gonna shoot up a school tomorrow and then give vague hints about your identity
Where could I find a more detailed structure about a PGP Message?
>RFC 1991
fuck you guys, I need to know the plain message structure, not a fucking massive Bible about what PGP stands for
I know it is Base64 coded shit, but I want to know what each part of that binary data represents
like; Message ID, Public Key, Encrypted Key, etc.
>>55785248
OP here answering myself
This gives me a nice hint, but I want to know if the strings are NULL terminated, or are fixed size structures?
OP here
you guys ain't shit
you just like to babble around commercial technology, console wars and wall that shill bullshit crap
you guys don't even fucking know what PGP stands for
>yeah, I know and I use that shit
well lucky you, the rest of the people here seem like fucking idiotic NEETs wabbing about shit they just buy
OP here
for the people who DO care about PGP
I will follow this guide;
http://www.bitcoinnotbombs.com/beginners-guide-to-pgp/
Do a simple PGP exchange message test, and see what I can get using a Hex Editor
Lets see if I can understand at least a significant shit from this RFC;
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4880
wish me luck
Okay, i'm sick of windows 10. I want to try linux in Vmware, which distro should i use for a beefy pc? I have an i7 4770k and gtx 1070. Please give reasons why that distro is the best.
>>55785240
consider lubuntu, will be snapy even on a virtual machine (except maybe incredible bloated software like firefox or chrome/chromium)
it also has a pretty windows-like interface. not the best, but the one a recommend to start with.
oh, and nvidia has drivers for linux so don't worry about that 1070. the only hardware that could not be supported are some wireless cards
but you can also try lubuntu an pretty much every distro without installing them to the HDD
>>55785363
Thanks for the tip, i dont use wireless so that wouldn't be a problem
>>55785240
>which distro should i use for a beefy pc?
Any of the *buntus, Xubuntu imo.
>Please give reasons why that distro is the best
Biggest userbase and more known thus if you end up with a problem it's easier to troubleshoot.
>2016
Why are .jpgs still a thing when there's .png?
Why is .gif still a thing when there's .webm?
Pls explain
>why is mp3 when opus is a thing
normies
>>55785244
mp3 used*
>>55785244
why would people ever download songs when there's spotify
I need help. I know nothing of what this connector is but I need help finding a replacement. It was in a piece that clicked in to my computer and the other side connected to my hard drive. Please help. I need a replacement for cheap.
>>55785195
Here's another pic
>>55785239
Another pic. Please help
It's a ISO 7429rgw cable
Why would anyone use .NET Core for a greenfield codebase? Despite 16 years of development, CoreCLR still gets spanked by HotSpot (the most popular Java runtime) in almost every benchmark, so it can’t be for performance. Even Go (young as it is) has more numerous, more mature third-party libraries, so it can’t be for productivity either.
Is it just for people who want to write a Linux/macOS app but don’t want to learn a new language?
Because C# is superior.
>more numerous, more mature third-party libraries
Oh wait, it was just bait after all.
>>55785485
explain to me how C# is superior to Java 8 and how this purported productivity superiority offsets the 80% performance hit of using CoreCLR
>>55785485
the overwhelming majority of C# code on GitHub have dependencies not fulfilled by .NET Core, which makes them effectively Windows-only (for at least the next 2 years)
Meanwhile, literally every Go binary can run on Linux, macOS, and Windows
Anyone know anything about scripting coupons to get an unlimited amount from coupons.com and such? I'm not talking about VMs and refreshing MAC address's.
>>55785096
That's a lot of shitting
>>55785120
no shit...
OP here. Anyone? Anyone...?
SSDs are memes.
The speed decreases to 40% in a few months.
It's overpriced and only good if you reboot your pc every 2 minutes like a raging faggot.
It's all marketing boys. Don't buy them.
Pic related. It's my own SSD.
>>55785075
SATA3 drive on a SATA2 bus, 6 months old, getting pretty much the realistic maximum performance it could get.
Fuck yourself.
>>55785075
>>55785075
Cry
Yes, we know everything is already from China but in here we discuss the no/low-name cheap shit you see on Gearbest, AliExpress, eBay and similar sites.
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>News:
• After receiving his €12 soldering set, anon tries it out by soldering pin heards to his Wemos D1 mini >>55778907
• Anon's packages got intercepted by customs >>55779980
• Upon opening AliExpress app it requests whatever is in your clipboard >>55780061
• High res picture of a 16gb Shark up close >>55780457
• Anon's EVOD battery appears to be only capable of half the battery it was originally advertised as, considers opening ticket with FastTech about it >>55781030
• Anon orders new screen for his iphone, colours are washed and grey and home button isn't working >>55781352
• Anon receives package he completely forgot about >>55781620
• Anon ordered something new, a $3 USB water pump >>55782208 and a ultrasonic water fogger >>55782241
• Anon received his "tactical" fleece hoodie >>55782998 and "tactical" hard shell jacket >>55783217
• Seller tries to chink anon over a refund, won't give refund unless anon provides proof of destroyed unit with 64gb shark mousepad as his witness >>55783542
• Anon bought 100 smartphone pens, hands them out to friends and Pokemon GO players >>55783865
Previous thread >>55778334
GET READY BOYS!
2nd for cheap useless tat
Where do I order qt like this?