Buying a thinkpad is like old people trying to restore new cars,

>>55038761
But that's satisfying.
There's a difference between buying ingredients and cooking a meal and a TV dinner.

I just bought a thinkpad and used it as-is.

Most you need is an SSD, you don't need all that other crap. It sounds like you're retarded and are looking for someone to blame for your own stupidity.

>>55038761
Thinkpads = honda civic
Macbook = audi aka the volkswagen clones
Gaming laptop = gmc
Regular winblows laptops = nissan altima

>>55038761
I just bought a Sony instead. My friend had a macbook pro and I wasn't impressed. They're even more disappointing now.

>>55038761
buying a t420 and adding some ram and an ssd:
is like buying a used sports bike and replacing the stock exhaust with aftermarket, better tires, and throwing a tune at it.

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Nowhere near it. If upgrading a thinkpad was the equivalent of getting a MBP, I'd just get a MBP.. Upgrades are pretty cheap. Pic related (my planned upgrades for a refurbished x220)

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Or you could buy a new ThinkPad. I just got a P50, thinking of getting an X1 carbon

>>55039323
>shit keyboard
no thanks

>>55038761

hey douchebag, i recently purchased a thinkpad for $75 in mint condition with an i5 processor

if you think i should spend more money thats ur problem

>>55038761
>2016
>using car analogies

keke dumbass

>>55039323
Don't the new thinkpads come with security issues? I thought I read something about that, it's why people buy old ones.

Lol do you have buyers remorse?

my t42 was 60$
the ram was 15$
the SSD was 20$
the 9 cell battery was 15$
the 2ghz pentium m was 12$
(the stickers were 6$)

its not expensive, its still cheaper than buying something new and you still get decent performance

>>55045051
people buy old thinkpads because of how they are cycled through businesses that brings their price to performance ratio to optimal levels

>company buys thinkpads from lenovo in bulk
>uses them for 3-5 years
>sells them in bulk in either full functionality or missing HDD
>3000$ laptop is now 200$ as they flood the market
>easily upgradable to very usable modern standards for cheap

>>55046857
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>>55038761
I got a 6-month-old T450 laptop at work. The display and the keyboard are absolutely dogshit
>max res 1600x900
>same shitty keyboard they put in $500 laptops
meanwhile the macbook pro of equal value has the max horizontal res of 2560px.

I hate Apple with a burning passion, but they've outdone Lenovo there.