T420 only

>>57373989
It is a shame that like all Lenovo laptops the screen is absolute garbage.

"just rape my eyes, Lenovo!"

Will Lenovo ever make a laptop with a backlight that doesn't at least tire the shit out of your eyes?

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>>57373989

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>>57374068

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you are one weird person

>>57374068
>>57374073
>muh dik
Your t420 is in excellent condtion anon. must be a pleasure to type on that thing

>>57373989
Do yourself a favor and get a T430s
Better in just about every way.
I own both

>>57374083
love the keyboard anon it is very thinkpad-esque. wished your t420 was opened up but i see that it's busy powering those 2 monitors

>>57374096
very nice anon. is that an eGPU or something?

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>>57373989
Sorry, did you mean T430 w/ classic keyboard?
Here, have some.

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>dirty

>>57374031
the 1080 panels that fit in the 15 inch models are pretty widely used.. sure you can find a non hurting one

sorry no pic op only own t520

>>57374073
What university are you at?

>>57374209
>clean
>that keyboard
>that red accent on the upper left/right clickers

I wish to live your life anon

>>57374227
thats just a public library.

>>57374206
>qwertz

>>57374248
>shokugeki
nice

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muh wallpaper

>>57374269
Yup, watching it on the desktop though cause 1440p is sexy compared to 720p, and the T420 doesn't have the GPU power to run the MadVR settings I like to use for upscaling.

>>57374252
christ

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>>57374329

>>57373989
The T60 has much better build quality.

>>57374180
>he has never seen a laptop dock before

have some more tp/lenovo wallpapers

>>57374248
Clean your camera lens the next time

>>57374402
>>57374402
>there are people on /g/ that aren't currently using a dock.

Why even come here anymore?

>>57374199
>2x2TB HDDs
>quad core CPU + nvidia GPU
do you want to burn down your house familia?

Sorry. I have a W510.

>>57374199
Damn nigga is that a fucking Logitech MX1000? How is that still alive?

>>57374579
I treat it well :^)
Believe it or not but after 4 years of service the battery still delivers 48 hours of work without recharging

>>57374248
>schiit
my colored brother from africa

>>57374619

Damn, I loved that mouse, but I had to to replace it like 3 times and eventually the battery got so bad I could only get like 8ish hours out of it. It also started tracking erratically by the end. Luck of the draw I guess...

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Bought on eBay in good condition

>>57374702
It all depends on distance between the base and mouse. This has the biggest impact on battery life.
Plus, early parties of this model had a problematic battery that was wearing too quickly.

If it breaks one day I'll get the same model...

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>>57374444
sorry senpai, I didn't mean to offend quads

>>57374754
>>57374248
Looks better

How good is the T420 screen? it has shit viewing angles yes but that is expected from a TN monitor.

How is the color?

>>57374754
Bruh look at my dab *hits Le dab*

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>>57374852
Edgy

>>57374888
DUUUUUDE

>>57374899
You're le one who le brought it up

>>57374754
>>57374888
fuck off you degenerate stoner. you bring much shame to t420s

>>57374845
garbage

>>57374966
Im still not sure if i should get the 900p T420 or the IPS X220.

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What a tucking luck that you made this thread today
I just got this right today in my mail and must say that this shit is cash

Not booted up because i dont want to start it just to take a picture of it. It is windoze 7 for now anyways, i will flash coreboot tomorrow (aint supporting tranny shit) and then probably put some debian distro on it

It seems solid for work, but deep inside im kinda pissed that the on board intel "GPU" cant run my mongolian games

>>57374964
It's not the T420 for no reason.


Lenovo knew it was the dankest model

>>57374980
https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/4wf7uc/51nbs_mods_internationally_available_x62_x330_fhd/

>>57374980
For good colors the IPS is your only realchoice

>>57375030
Im not exactly looking for great colors but something that wont hurt my eyes for staring it 4 hours a day.

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>>57375024
SWEET BABY JESUS
I CAME ALL OVER THE SCREEN

>>57375044
You get used to the shit colors on the TN, but if you use IPS screens often then it'll be pretty bad for you. BUT if it's your only monitor you won't mind

>>57375083
holy
fuck

how much??

>>57374031
>It is a shame that like all Lenovo laptops the screen is absolute garbage.

They are intended for office work etc where matte screens are desirable.

Best to connect them to an external monitor at home. There's little point in using any notebook screen unless you have to.

>>57375365
~$400-600 depending on options

>>57374248
>>57374754
>>57374888
what anime

>>57375897
Shokugeki no soma

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>>57376055
dont recommend an anime to me or my son ever again

>>57376523
kek, it's a good show desu

If you can't handle some imagined ecchi you wont go too far in anime.

This single thread is currently containing approximately 86% of /g/'s autism.

>>57376832
That is EDC, /bst/, /mkg/, /ptg/ and the usual shitposting threads.

>>57376523
i know i was just joking
i just dont really like those scenes
>inb4 faggot

>>57374209
>windows 10
>mIRC
>uTorrent
>Chrome

just botnet my shit up senpai

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Got it off eBay 2 months ago. Replaced HDD with a 240gig SSD. Blazing fast now.

>>57375083
perfect in every way

>>57373989
the most overrated piece of shit

no wonder /g/ orgasms just thinking about it

>tfw really love how the T420 looks and feels but no reason to get one since I already have a T440p with the good trackpad changed in

Convince me to waste money

>>57378128
Buy a dock for the T440p.

>>57378160
What's a dock even for? I don't understand docks.

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Used to own one.
Great keyboard, great build quality
Absolutely shit internals. Thing was completely fucking useless.

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>>57378173
So you don't have to plug in ethernet, monitor, keyboard, mouse, power, etc. separately.

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Sup nigger

>>57373989
Funny that the t420 looks well built except for the fan vent, which is very fragile and can break with very little force. The trackpad is also of poor quality. It doesn't take very long for the plastic film on it to flake off like dandruff.

>>57378197
I have a desktop when I'm working at home so that's no use to me.

>>57378197
Nice mousepad.

i own a t61

So how much battery life does everyone get on theirs with the default standard battery? I get around 3-4 hours in Linux.

>>57378255
Bless your soul

>>57378278
thanks...i forgot how nice windows xp was.
>>57378260
i get about 45 minutes.

>>57378290
On a T420 or T61?

>>57378303
the t61 senpai. maybe someday when i'm old and rich i'll buy a t420

>>57378199
the good
>good OS, whatever fags on /g/ say
>good keyboard
>nice poster
>T420 in good condition
>nice lighting

the bad
>OBEY sticker
>shitty display
>the cheapest sennheiser, while better than most headphones, is still shit

the ugly
>vape

6/10 anon, see me after class

>>57378313
Oh haha ;) you can find T420's for pretty cheap now, and in good condition.

My T420s is on its last straws. I'm going to "upgrade" to a T440s

Sorry anon

>>57378260
same, about 3 hours on Ubuntu.

>>57378317
elemetaryOS is FUCKING SHIT though

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>>57378182
>look at full size image for a few seconds
>close tab
>wait something looked kind of familiar
>open image again
>my old battlestation when

For some reason I don't seem to have that exact image any more. There was a time when I somehow failed to back up some of them and that must've been one of the few I lost. Had to be somewhere in the realm of 2010-2011 though. Can't believe so many years have past...

>>57378317
i think those sennheisers are fine and most importantly this guy has a clean computer space, which i fucking applaud him for.
he said nigger tho and he has a fuckin bladerunner poster and he vapes so he's definitely super gay.

>>57373989
I also want to buy some refurbished T420

but its look big and bulky

>>57373989
how are the speakers on T420 vs X220, didn't realise T420 has speakers on top rather than on bottom

>>57378352
That's half the appeal.
You can go to /CSG/ and buy an intel atom ultrabook, if you want slim looking

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>>57373989
I have a couple of them.

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>>57378346
I'm definitely a huge faggot

>>57378260
It was dead.

But i get 6 hours of chinese cartoons with my counterfeit chinese 9-cell, Win7.

>>57378425
>counterfeit chinese 9-cell
Ooo that sounds risky

>>57378340
It's clean and pre-riced, and also Pantheon is really stupid lightweight. Lighter than xfce in my tests, as far as RAM requirements and CPU usage go. Their default file and web browser are both shit, and their terminal is an ugly fuck, but it's still overall a pretty good distro.

>>57378440
Such is life when your only choices are
>Counterfeit batteries from AliExpress
>No battery at all

Still better than expected though, I'm fine with 6 hours running a QM processor on light load by watching cartoons.

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>>57373989

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Got this about 2 weeks ago, dude selling it just got it refurbished. Ran me $230 CDN and it's in perfect condition. Just installed an SSD in it today.

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>>57378734
have any issues with video?

>>57378734
Your terminal is ass

>>57379069
Why would I waste my time ricing out a terminal? Besides, all I need is the drop down functionality.

>>57379099
>Why would I waste my time ricing out a terminal?
For aesthetic purposes of course.

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brand new in box basically, a mom and pop shop picked it up and i snagged it with an SSD and ram upgrade + a basically new battery. Their business is literally 70% used thinkpads, it's glorious.

also haven't tried it because i don't have a vga or vga to dvi adater but does the intel 3000 handle a second monitor pretty well (non-mirrored).

>>57378199
>elementary on a t420

mah nigga

>>57374218
too bad they're still TN shit.

>>57373989
>pls show me your t420 all dolled up
>dolled up
this is why people think you're weird, /g/

>>57378420
>HDR

>>57374073
What's that theme?
Numix on xfce with docker??

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>mfw not a single photo posted itt shows this piece of shit running on battery alone

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I also upgraded to the i7 2720QM

>>57380032
Hi fellow T420 w/2720QM bro.

This cpu is the best for the t420 imo, not so powerful to get throttled for a decent amount of time and tolerable heat albeit higher than the dualcores.

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fuck that
post toughbooks

>>57380054
Agreed, I don't really have any heat problems unless I'm doing CPU heavy work like compiling or 3D model rendering. I do however have issues with power loss on battery using TLP if I don't limit the CPU performance a bit. Not sure what the cause is but I don't really mind, it saves battery anyways.

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Bought it new in November 2011 with 2 GB of RAM. It's still my primary machine, running OpenBSD.

I'm planning to upgrade it to 16GB for its 5-year anniversary now that DDR3 is cheap.

<3

>>57380054
You can also use 1600mhz ram with that processor instead of 1333mhz.

>>57380115
That's a big clit

>>57380167
Oh yeah I think I remember reading that somewhere. Maybe I'll upgrade my RAM. I want to upgtade to the HD+ screen first though

>>57380032
>I also upgraded to the i7 2720QM
How ?
Isn't the CPU wielded?

I really wanted a T420, but this thread has pretty much convinced me to not get one. Everything about it seems good, except for the screen. Jesus, it's so dim and blueish. I don't want to rape my eyes like that.

>>57380332
>it's so dim and blueish
That is true, but you get used to it.

>>57374199
>quadcore
enjoy your throttling

>>57380352
It doesn't throttle, unless CPU and GPU both stressed up to 100% load for more than 5 minutes

>>57380359
fucking how
my t430 throttles with just a dualcore under fairly heavy load (like gta 5)

>>57380366
28nm variant of the dGPU (which is pretty rare, and has always 2GB of vRAM)
also good thermal compound.

Maybe you didn't notice but the dGPU is overclocked, as well as the vRAM. CPU has turbo and HT enabled, so I consider myself lucky ;^)

>>57380372
can 1gb ones b 28nm?
and what compound did you use?
I used artic silver but it didn't help for shit except at idle
it could be that the tube is 3 years old, and my idiot friend pulled the end back out so the last bit was dry as hell

>>57380332
I actually put my brightness on minimum so there was no glare for my picture. The screen itself gets fairly bright. I'd say the screen quality of the HD+ screen is really nice.

>>57380392
>can 1gb ones b 28nm?
Nope, I don't think so. 1GB ones are the early ones, all 40nm.
>and what compound did you use?
fresh arctic silver 5

>>57380282
if you mean soldered, then no its not. its a socket

so 50$ for upgrade to 1600x900 is worth it?

>>57381853
It's not bad, but it's still pretty shit quality panel, its better than 720p though.

I also think there are 1 or 2 panels you can buy online to replace the stock 900p panel, but the mod only works if your model has the 900p screen to begin with.

>>57373989
>T420 refurbished

Enjoy your semen-caked laptop. Computers are literally filthier than toilets.

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>>57381907
you really think this is semen caked?

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>>57380115
R8 reporting in.

>>57381951
Yes. All used computers have traces of their previous owner's cum on them.

>>57381960
I fully detailed mine when I got mine off ebay, 99% isopropyl alcohol wipe down, disassembled and blown out with compressed air and also wiped down with alcohol on the interior.

If there is any semen left after all that, I deserve it.

>>57381960
That is when you bring out the iFixit kit and shit to clean

>>57379442
I have a 1080p IPS panel in my T420s. Get on my level.

>>57381971
A common mistake people make about other people is falsely assuming other people are as considerate as you are.

>>57374031
This, my lenovo ideapad at max brightness is pitiful

>>57381979
The normal T420 doesn't work with that mod as you probably know.

>>57381986
Maybe you haven't put the maximum brightness in the BIOS settings. I'm looking at my L460 right now and it's perfectly bright.

>>57381987
Yeah that's why I bought the s, I don't really mind that the processor is soldered to the motherboard. Also it being a bit more slim is nice.

>>57375405
>implying matte screens aren't desirable everywhere
Do you take a selfie every 10 minutes too ?

>>57379878
basically. Though its dockbarx.

>>57380176
for you

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T420 FHD mod that doesn't flicker like hell when

>>57380332

Consider that it's blue because they're showing a blue board on 4chan.

>>57380419

Same. I wish the lowest setting of the screen could go dimmer so that I didn't burn my eyes at night. As it is, I use redshift.

>>57380332
I agree with you, i had to calibrate mine for a while to get "decent" colors.

>>57376929

underrated

>>57374275
Looking at the nipple on my T420 takes me back to when I was a kid and my dad worked at Nextel and he had a Thinkpad for business use.
He let me play an ancient racing game on it a few times.
I always thought that laptop was the coolest shit ever. I wish I knew which model it was. This was probably circa 2001, any ideas?

>>57380054
>tfw my thinkpad has the nvidia gpu
FUCK

>>57385295
Any estimate on screen size?

If it was fairly new in 2001 it could've been a T20 series or X20 series.

How long until these things are obsolete for programming and compiling?

I'm assuming the T400 is too old too smoothly run those stuff, so how long until T420 becomes the T400?

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>>57373989
Sure?

But I don't get why this board loves the T420 model so much.

T420's dated hardware is now too slow for demanding software, and even normal productivity software like the office suite makes the fan spin up to let everyone know that you have a non-retina early 10's business grade portable computer™.

You could upgrade the CPU to a higher performance one pretty easily, but at the cost of turning it into a CPU throttling high-performance hair-dryer.

The screen is utter shit unless you have one of the four or so manufacturers of the IPS screens, making it practically a lottery to get a mediocre screen.

The keyboard flexes and keys are really close to each-other, I'll give it a solid 6/10 since I've also been through a replacement after some of keys stopped working a few years ago.

Exchangeable battery is a nice-to-have feature, which I haven't used once since I got it in 2011.
Got around 8 hours average on it with the higher-capacity ass size, making it also quite heavy for commuting to work/school.

>Thanks for reading my blog

>>57385896
I was like 8 years old, so I don't remember. It was fairly standard from what I can remember. Ir remember the screen bezel not being as big as the t420. I remember playing an arcade-y racing game that came with the laptop (since i doubt my dad would have been able to install anything on his own) And I remember it being a ThinkPad because of the nipple, it is imprinted in my memory.
In fact, I think it did not have a trackpad.

>>57386166
I don't think any ThinkPad had a trackpad until 2003.

>>57386091
>Sandy bridge
2025 minimum.

>>57386121
>dated hardware
>even normal productivity software like the office suite makes the fan spin up to let everyone know that you have a non-retina early 10's business grade portable computer™.
>You could upgrade the CPU to a higher performance one pretty easily, but at the cost of turning it into a CPU throttling high-performance hair-dryer.
False

- Posted from my 2720QM T420 at 50c with the fan turned off
TPfancontrol is based as fuck.

>>57386062
cool carbon skin, where can I get one of those?

>>57386091
>programming and compiling
The T60 isn't obsolete for that, never mind the T400 or T420. It's not like it takes some insane amount of power to run a text editor. Compile times might suck compared to newer processors, but if you're working on such a large-scale project that it really matters, you should have a dedicated build server anyway.

>>57386121

>But I don't get why this board loves the T420 model so much.

Really inexpensive, very durable and well made, great linux support, wide variety available. Sandy Bridge processors provide very good performance.

>T420's dated hardware is now too slow for demanding software,

it's not. you are probably running the cheapest processor with an ancient HDD. literally 100% of /g/ you excluded have upgraded to an SSD. Makes a world of difference in these. Also the vast majority has Linux which makes them much faster.

>and even normal productivity software like the office suite makes the fan spin up to let everyone know that you have a non-retina early 10's business grade portable computer™.

Which only some frapp-drinking teen at starbucks would notice. Nobody here has bought a T420 new, we've all bought them for like $200 used. For that money you can't get better performance.

>You could upgrade the CPU to a higher performance one pretty easily, but at the cost of turning it into a CPU throttling high-performance hair-dryer.

Which is untrue. This is simply bullshit and you don't know what you're talking about.

>The screen is utter shit unless you have one of the four or so manufacturers of the IPS screens, making it practically a lottery to get a mediocre screen.

It's not great, we can all admit that. The 720p screen is trash but the 900p is good for productivity and the FHD IPS is good for everything else. We don't use these laptops for graphic work or watching a movie unless we are on the go.

>The keyboard flexes and keys are really close to each-other, I'll give it a solid 6/10 since I've also been through a replacement after some of keys stopped working a few years ago.

It feels good, get out.

>>57380332

redshift or f.lux nigga

>>57386328
>TPfancontrol is based as fuck.

True, I have the same CPU, you can install thinkfan and it works pretty well. Otherwise the fan doesn't go past minimum speed.

>>57374068
>>57374073
How can I clean mine to look so perfect

>>57386715
idk. it came that way. Besides a few small scratches on the palm rest, shiny space bar and lid corners, it looks brand new

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>>57385896
>>57385295
2001 IBM laptop with enough power to game on sounds like the based 600x.

>tfw my pentium 3 and 512 mb ram 600x still running win98 like a boss

>>57386838
The 600x is quite awesome. If I'm not mistaken I think it's by far the most powerful ThinkPad to still have the 90s-style keyboard. I think the GPU was still pretty lame in them though.

>>57374888
the nail is 5 times the price the glass its sitting on.

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noob here, I want to put in 4 more GB of RAM on my T420, but have no idea if any DDR3 stick will do the trick. Should it be the same brand?

>>57387585
If it fits, it sits. Really not sure where the idea that computers are picky about RAM came from. I've mixed and matched all sorts of different brands, capacities, speeds, and even voltages, and never once have I had a problem.

>>57387699
Thanks, anon. I don't really know why this might be an issue, but the fact that I can't even properly formulate my question speaks volumes about me rather than an idea about RAM.

>>57374083
Yo, what keyboard is that?

>>57387749
The only thing you can't do is exceed the maximum capacity on a single slot. The T420 tops out at 16GB, so stick to 8GB sticks and smaller.

>>57387940
IBM RT 3200. Its rubberdome, but its TKL and has a trackpoint

>>57378734
>1366x768

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>not hackintoshing your T420
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/285678-lenovo-thinkpad-t420-with-uefi-only/

>>57387981
I have another laptop for any serious media consumption and work. This is just my cozy machine

>>57387958
Damn, nice.
The rubber dome sucks but oh well. Is it nice to type on at least?

>>57387958
How are the domes? Are they at least Thinkpad-tier?

>>57388104
I guess. Its better than my cheap logitech ones. I guess its comparable to the dell keyboards that were everywhere a while ago.

>>57388185
no

I was going to get one of the ones that are basically a thinkpad keyboard, but they are incredibly expensive and i want the T420 like one only to match my laptop.

How fast are meme pads?
Are the i7s of their day comparable to current gen i3s?

CPU boss is really gay.

>>57388210
Ahhhh, I was actually using one of those dell ones earlier. Could be worse.
Ever considered something like a model M? Or is this purely for aesthetic.

>>57388248
I was, but the M13 (the one with the trackpoint) has no middle click and is fuckheug. I used to have a really small desk so i got the RT3200 and now it like it quite a bit. I would like a TKL mechanical keyboard with a trackpoint, but they dont exist and i dont like 60% boards. The tex yoda is like $300 or something anyways.

>>57378212
Well thinkpad are for businesses, go to your job with your laptop plug it in that's your desktop, take it home to do work at home it's for people with jobs

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>>57387947
That's good to know. I'm going through everything AIDA can show me and googling how to improve this beast. Biggest concern - new (9-cell?) battery. Intel's 3000 graphics should have to issue to power an external 1080p monitor. Then I'll be done. It'll be magnificent.

Sorry for the blog, but this machine is literally perfect. Currently typing on a Yoga 2 Pro I have from work, and aside from the 1080p screen and the weight, it's shit compared to the T420 for my daily tasks.

>>57388243
Sandy Bridge is stronk. Even their i5s perform favorably compared to current mobile i3s. Power efficiency and iGPU performance are the only areas Intel has made any significant gains in the past five years.

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>>57388243
the best OEM option in the T420 is slightly less powerful than the i3-6157u but bests the 6100u.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

Ok so. Total noob here.
Why on earth are these T420 thinkpads so great?
I've been in the market for a decent laptop for a while, how do they hold up against more modern hardware?
What sort of modifications can it take?

It doesn't seem to be the most portable thing in the world from the looks of it. How heavy is it?

What's up with the top row of that keyboard?
The keyboard itself looks lovely to type on, and that's a rare compliment from me. I normally hate laptop keyboards.

What makes the t420 so great?

>looking to upgrade your T420's RAM
>go to dba.dk
>cycle through a bunch of offers
>"Oh, okay, this Kingston shit looks promis-"
>Adolf
>tfw

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>>57388407
forgot pic

>>57388243
This processor >>57380032 has around 65% the PassMark score of the 6770HQ, one of the best Skylake laptop cpus available right now.

I'd say yeah it's more than adequate.

>>57382128
suomi winland vittu

hyvä valinta, T420s itselläkin paitsi enemmän muistia ja i7-2620m

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>>57388420
>Opera

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>>57388457
What do you use on your T420, anon?

>pence

>>57388342
Thanks anon. I remember the sandy bridge hype but I didn't exactly know how that translated to laptops.
Last question. Is the screen really as shitty as the thread makes it out to be?
Say I wanted to do some digital painting on the thing. Would I get fucked?

>>57388505
The screen on the T420 really is. It is undeniably terrible. Viewing angles are so bad that the colors distort just between the top and bottom of the screen when looking at it head-on. There's a constant blue hue applied to everything, and a screen door effect on top of that. You can replace it with the screen from an Alienware M14x, which helps with colors and quality, but the viewing angles aren't helped any. Get a 1080p W520 or an X220 tablet if you want a half-decent screen.

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Shitty pic of my shitty college setup. Love my dankpad to death, running os x and virtualizing wangblows for cad work without breakng a sweat

>>57387987
eyyy brah

>>57388407

buy it

or are you a jew or a nigger? maybe indian?

>>57388632
I'll get the X220 then. I can so everything else on a desktop except for mobile word processing and some work.

>>57388699
If you get a non-tablet model, you'll have to look specifically for one an IPS screen. The TN screen isn't as bad as the T420's, but it's still mediocre and as long as you're constricting yourself to 1366x768, you might as well get viewing angles and colors worth a damn. All tablet models have IPS by default, so it's a safer bet in that regard, although it has a smaller battery than the regular X220.

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>>57388690
Who the fuck names a RAM stick 'Adolf'?

>>57388505

It's not that bad. It's not good but you can perfectly browse shit with it. You can't take it to bed because the viewing angles show. But if you use it like it's intended (it's a business laptop) then you will have a good time. Avoid 1366x768 screens, I have the 1600x900 on my thinkpad and for the money I don't think you can get any better. The X220s all have low res screens and I think it's more of a burden than viewing angles. If you want something slim there's the T420s, which is what I have. It's really compact but packs everything the normal T420 has, except for the battery. But those can be bought cheap on aliexpress and you can even have an ultrabay battery. Mine even has onboard 3G which means I have internet wherever I go, I fucking love it, it's the comfiest laptop I've ever had.

One word of warning, though: You will want to install Linux on it. Windows 7 is heavy and will cripple performance a lot. I have Arch Linux but if you feel like you don't want to tackle it, you can have Manjaro, for example. It offers technically the same efficient performance of Arch but with older packages and some bloat. I guess all the noob distros perform quite the same, you can even have something like Mint or Noobuntu on it. I run my thinkpads with XFCE because it's light but provides a decent environment. It's best with Arch because there are a lot of packages for it on AUR, which you can technically access with Manjaro.

Don't be afraid to embrace Linux if you are new to it, it will win you over. Youtube is a fine example where you will notice the extra performance with a T420. Mid tier models with the higher res panel can't play 1080p@60fps smoothly on windows but with linux it's no problem.

how much would it run me to upgrade my t420i to glorious 1080p fhd?

currently 1600 x 900 res but 1080p would be so much fucking nicer for a res and poorfag like me ;-;

>>57388855
Seems like it has a limited range of use. I assume you have a desktop as well.
Tell me if Im mistaken but couldn't you just use a desktop for vidya/work and a botnetbook for word processing and media browsing outside? Especially considering you can get a botnetbook ~$300 with fhd, ok vieweing angles and their battery life is more or less proven.

I've been using Linux forever brotha, Fedora or bust.

>>57388758
The screen resolution and screen size make that unappealing. I forgot that they were all 1366x768 until you said that.

>>57389067
1366x768 is fine imo for the X220 12" screen however the 14" T420 has a 1600x900 option, if you have 1366x768 on it I'd upgrade that shit asap as first priority, but pair it with >>57388422 and it's a solid machine.

>>57389067
I would suggest a W520 then. It's not that much bigger or heavier than the T420 and if you don't need the extra power of the dGPU you can just disable it in BIOS and work with just the iGPU. The 1080p panel is really good, while it is TN, it's one of the best TN panels ever made. Fantastic colors, excellent horizontal viewing angles, and even the vertical angles aren't as bad as you might expect.

>>57388901
Can't be done, the 1080p IPS mod only worked properly on the slim variant even when the custom board was available. Now nobody's even selling the board anymore, at least not to non-Chinese markets.

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For some reason my T420 running Arch and hooked to my monitor has sharper, smoother YouTube than my i5 4670k R9 290 powered main rig with Windows 10. That can't be right? I'm baffled.

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>>57389747
Care to share a short video? Cause it does sound too crazy to be true.

>>57373989

>work laptops

>not a single number keypad

Sigh. My Dell Inspiron 7559 is a better work horse than these things.

>>57390059
Unless you're an accountant or someone else who enters a ton of numbers on a daily basis, a numeric keypad on a laptop does more harm than good. Pushing the typing portion of the keyboard and the pointing devices way off to the left is a serious ergonomic regression.

>>57389747
Clean your mouse holy shit

Say one the other day in a pawn shop, looks better than in pictures and somehow feels a bit more solid than my T520, maybe it's the larger size of the later what makes it prone to some flexing while the T420 doesn't. Shame about the screen, my T520s FHD panel is beautiful, going to get a 420 soon anyway.

>>57374209
>>so clean

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Just finished putting it back together after dusting it out and repasting for first time. nvidia model.

>>57392137
>those removed stickers
fuck i have the same shit and every time i see them my autism gets triggered

>>57388678

How hard was the hackintosh on it? Needs a fuck ton of kexts to get all the hardware running I assume?

>>57392675
needs a new wifi card off the top of my head

>>57392705

oh, that's not bad. If I get bored of elementary I'll probably give it a shot. Is the battery life alright? I've got a 420s so I gotta have some decent battery management built in such as TLP or an equivalent.

>>57375083
What model is that? lawdy lawd that is beautiful

>>57374275
lewd

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Put an SSD in it and its working nice. Some of the keys have trouble being pressed, like they popped out. Happens only when I carry it places. I like how it doesn't have a gpu so I'm not tempted to play games on it.

>>57386121
>>57386328

> makes the fan spin up

I have mine intentionally throttled down to 800 MHz all the time. The fan is always at idle and it's plenty fast enough so long as I use non-shit software.

Right now both cores are at 30 degrees.

>>57393476
Turn off the fan then, less battery usage and noise. Let it activate at the minimum level around 50-55c and so on.

>tfw your third storage drive is louder than the entire computer because HDD
HDDs a shit

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SSD with t420 is perfect workstation laptop.
It does everything i need and then some
t420 a best
<3

>>57393614
I agree.

Also eGPU capability for gaymen.

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>>57375083

I had a T400 years ago. It died on me, I still don't know what exactly happened, one day turned it on and it just stopped working. Checked the ram, replaced it. Checked the HDD and it wasn't that either. Tried my backup battery, still nothing. I'm pretty sure the motherboard or something completely failed or something, because there was no bios, nothing on boot. I didn't really have a warranty or anything, and I didn't know enough about how to repair it so I inevitably just replaced it with a shitty Asus laptop, which worked much longer and better than the T400, still works today but I don't use it anymore, got myself an Acer E15 a few months ago and it's a great laptop for the price.

That said, I did like the aesthetics of the T400 for the ~2 years that it lasted me. Still pissed it failed though. Feel like I really got screwed.

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>>57378342
Hah... I have one of your old photos from back in the day.... and possibly some later ones from this photo.

420 BLAZE IG FAFAGOT

>>57378199
Nice setup (except the mouth Fedora)

>>57392740
Needs a compatible wifi card, your best shot is Atheros, some Broadcoms work too. All the kexts are available on insanely mac forums, you just drop them on the installation usb and then run a post-install script. Everything works as expected except the sd-card reader. Even all the dock ports.
Batt life is decent, on my fucked battery with about 70% of capacity I get 6+hrs idle and around 4-5hrs of work, depends on the workload, brightness and radio activity.

>>57394496
Nice, that's one of the ones I'm missing from 2010. Saved and filed.

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>>57396019
does this help?

>>57396096
I still have that collage actually. I'm just lacking a lot of the photos I took in 2010 (maybe even 2008-2009, I'm not even sure when I started posting battlestation photos).

Thanks though.

>>57392842
It's an X230 modded with an XPS 13's screen.

>>57392642
Yeah I can understand that. It slowly matches the rest the more you use it.