Some dude dropped this off at work to recycle. What do you think, /g/?

>>57740353
into the trash

>>57740353
give it back

>>57740353
>>57740375
cherish it

>>57740375
I member when they first added those forward and back keys by the arrow keys
I hated it

>>57740375
does it turn on?

OP here
Boss has to run some tests on it and then he says it'll be mine tomorrow

>>57740735
great blog i'll add it to my rss reader

>>57740735
If it works, keep it. Despite being old, they're still great little laptops.
If you don't have room, send it to me. My T42 is on its last legs.
If it doesn't work, fix it. A little effort never hurt.
If you can't fix it feasibly (bad mobo/GPU), sell it on ebay as parts/repair. It will sell.

I think you should fulfill the mans request, and privacy, by destroying the laptop.

>>57740827
You give terrible advice and I hope you step on a lego.

>>57740353
>>57740375
sorry, I can't tell, the pictures are too small

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>>57740353
>implying old thinkpads aren't absolute shit

My first Thinkpad was from work, someone had brought it in for recycling. It was a T60, it was P R I S T I N E, but had the 1024x768 screen so it wasn't very useful. I later on bought a shitty T61 with a higher res screen, attempted to make a frankenpad but it failed.

People are ready to throw away perfectly good machines. Okay, a T42 isn't going to wow with its performance but if it's neat don't just junk it...

>>57740353

Who would want this plastic meme of a computer? Where is the beautiful aluminum uni-body shell? Where is the keyboard backlight? Where is the good trackpad? What the fuck is that meme dot in the center of the keyboard?

IBM is a software company now. Don't buy their cheap plastic Chinese computers.

>>57741023
t. false-flagger

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>>57740353
Keep it. Shitpost from it. Enjoy the IBM Thinkmeme.

>>57741023
Who would want this gay meme of a computer? Where are the USB ports? Why all the dongles? Why is the trackpad so fucking huge? What the fuck! Where are my function keys?

Apple is Blackberry now. Don't buy their cheap Chinese computers that are made by slaves and only contain $400 worth of parts.

>>57741023
>unibody aluminum
we're talking about a 2004 laptop here
apple didn't even do unibody yet
http://www.everymac.com/systems/by_year/macs-released-in-2004.html

>>57740971
the t60 is technically still viable today
not horribly powerful but with some ram and an ssd it'd make an excellent shitposting machine with its core2duo

>>57742230
I have just a regular core duo, and it actually very capable for a lot of stuff if you don't push it too far.

But the SSD was the real kick up the butt that gave it new life.

I love the thing. I actually use it more than by desktop because it's such a joy.

>>57740353
I just sold one of those for $50. Told him how it ran like a new machine on Arch + Mate. He insisted on Win7. If you're in Colorado and he's mistreated it.... I'll be pissed.

>>57742299
I was able to comfortably shitpost from a T40 (Pentium M 1.5/768MB/Radeon 7500) using Windows 7 and Firefox. Not the fastest thing in the world but certainly not the slowest.
>>57742637
I doubt he'd buy a $50 laptop only to drop it off for recycling a few days later. He'd most likely come back to you if he wasn't satisfied, but why wouldn't he be?

dedicated shitpost machine.

install xubuntu, works well.

i would know, i do it all the time.

I still use my T42 daily for youtube and OSRS

2ghz Pentium M, 2gb of ram, 40gb HDD and the 32mb Ati 7500

If it has the 128mb GPU, more ram and a processor upgrade is like 20$ and thats a nice light gaming machine for shit like Empire Earth

>>57740353
search the HD for naked pics.

>>57742863
>youtube
What OS and browser you using? YT is only watchable at 144p over ethernet on my 1.5 with 768 and the same GPU. (Putting a 2GHz and 2GB of RAM on my Christmas list since it's not a priority.)

>>57742908
Windows XP sp3
It does 480p smoothly but can do 720p50fps if i download it first
That res stutters in the browser though

Oddly related, i have a chromebook CR-48, that celeron has half the cpu benchmark score of the 2ghz pentium M, that poor machine cant even do 480p

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>>57742958
Semi related, t42 is on the far right

>>57743451
I didnt realize how blurry this picture was

>>57743451
What other machines you got there? I see the infamous G40 et al.

>>57743470
Left to right
R52, 380ED, x41t, G40, R30, T42
In the center is an old IBM TFT screen for the g40 to use

>>57743451
They're so CUTE!

>>57743644
Danks
This is my hobby, acquire old thinkpads, repair and refurb them.

The G40 at one time had an Extreme Edition p4 in it, but it got really hot and when it was maxed out it would bluescreen from using more wattage than the 165w brick could handle
The r52 and t42 both have the 2ghz pentiums, 2gb of ram, but the r52 has the 128mb gpu, the x41 is also maxed out, r30 is maxed out, 380ED isnt but another 32mb of ram wouldnt really do much

>>57743930
Extreme Edition in a laptop? Damn, IBM weren't fucking around when they called that a desktop replacement. What chipset does it use?

>>57743954
852GM

The g41 was a bit nicer too, as it had a dedicated gpu option. I could technically do a dgpu via the pcmcia slots but the adapters are expensive

>>57744052
Why would you want to, though? Don't your T42 and R52 run circles around that beast?

>>57744070
Yeah but it would be cool, i could hook it up to my old Nvidia Mv38 and get another gig of ram, that would leave the t42 in the dust

>>57744168
Nv38*

>>57743451
what's the fluid in that jar?

>>57740375
T42 is baller, last pre-Lenovo Thinkpad.

Keep it, no botnet.

>>57740353
I remember in like 3rd grade I watched my art teacher order green stuff (modeling clay) on one of these and I thought it was the coolest fucking laptop

>>57746546
acetone, i use to use it to strip the weaterproofing clear coat off my tools before i quit that job

>>57740353

I have one of them kicking about in the attic that I used to use as a kid, is there anything worth doing with it?

As far as I can remember the update for XP to service pack 3 wasn't compatible with the wifi card so had to downgrade back to SP2 rendering it useless