/tpg/ - Thinkpad General

remember to clean your cumpads lads

>>61164947

>230
too much imo

What's a good price for x230 with 8GB RAM, 120 SSD, i7?

>>61165026
$150 to $200 depending on condition IMO

>>61164964
>good cosmetic condition
>i7-3720QM
>NVS 5200M dGPU
>900p screen
>backlit keyboard
>new battery
I needed a cheap laptop for CAD work and a little gaming, and this fits the bill.

>Don't buy anything OTHER THAN HP Elitebook (2570p, 8770W, 2170p)

Stupid question but I'll ask anyway - does this mean only these three models are good, or are they just examples? I'm considering a 8470P.

>>61165409
wow i was about to ask the same question, but an 8570p

Do I need to update the BIOS of my T60 before I add another processor?

>>61165409
I don't know about the others, but the 2570p is well-documented and has a relatively active community. See
>https://www.techinferno.com/index.php?/forums/topic/1982-125-hp-elitebook-2570p-owners-lounge/

>>61165409
the 2570p is really good for an ultraportable.

only con for me it's the lack of ips display.

>>61165433
>>61165442

Not looking for ultraportable tho. 8470p is one of the cheapest with 14" 1600x900 screen.

>>61165476
It's good too.

>>61165419
I didn't care for it, bulky and underperforming when I came across them.

>>61165476
8470p is good, it seems to be cheaper in i5 form against the E6430 and T430, however it has ATI graphics (subjective) instead of nVidia and only two pointing stick buttons.

I think they are neat, better looking than the E6430 and maybe T430 (but fails in utility, mSATA)

>>61165422
Both T60 chipsets support up to the c2d t7600 from their first versions
No bios update required

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Inb4 this is tilted

I still cant figure out how to make dos use the whole screen. Some really old forum posts on a dos/win9x site say the 380 series have shitty screens and shitty controllers that make getting 800x600 in dos a pain, plain and simple, The dos drivers that do exist for the neomagic chip don't support 800x600 anyway.
Whatever, this was more because "I should try" more than I really wanted to play wolfenstein 3d on thr thing. The refresh rate is terrible and turning makes things blurry.
Its an office machine, I didn't expect much in the way of gaming performance anyway.

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>>61166143
Otherwise, on the thinkpad front, the G40 is chilling, possibly going to do a screen replacement and an upgrade to a 3ghz Pentium 4, supposedly with some voltage tricks and a better fan I can actually run the 3.4ghz EE stable, though its all wasted because the onboard graphics suck balls

My T42 adds another game to its drive, the full version of Halo: Combat Evolved, ironically the pic I have on my phone is of The Silent Cartographer which is the demo level anyway, but I now have the full game. Brings me back to 2007ish when I was just a kid and discovered computer gaming for the first time playing the demo. And how much legendary flood suck.

Anyone have some recommendations for games that can run smoothly on a 32mb ati mobility 7500?
So far ive got everything from old shit like Sim Tower up to Hotline Miami.

>>61166084
my apologies, forgot to mention it doesnt have the stock i7, instead the i7-3720QM

>>61166143
I had a 380 that had the same problem with the window size.
Never figured it out, and the hdd died before I became smart with ThinkPads.

Good luck bud.

>>61166199
The G41 has such a better video card, it's like night and day.

>>61165392
Nvm it looks good, didn't notice the full specs

>>61166219
The g41 is better, however
>it doesnt have the house fire brescot bentium 4's
>they're more rare than a limited edition #1 print of a solid palladium pepe in the US

If I could get my hands on one for a non retarded price, id love it.
But the its really just a rare thinkpad and my G40 has the cool thing I really care about, socket 478

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>>61166262
G41 still ran as fucking hot.
Fuck that...

Supposedly there is a G50 that is socket LGA775, and might be core 2 duo... idk. Its a fucking unicorn so far.

I'd fix up the T42 ye got, maybe advance dock and check what GPU options it has if you want to play on a big monitor.

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has anyone ever seen this little fucker in person? seems to be super rare in europe.


>>61165409
>>61165419
8whatever, 2whatever, it's a series consisting of several generations just like thinkpad T, X, W or latitude E4whatever, E6whatever, E7whatever and precisions. precisions, and elitebooks ending with w are thinkpad W series tier workstations.

>>61166323
Yo do a livestream

Do any of you guys have info about Hp nc6220?
Really tempted to buy one for dat IBM Thinkpad type except it's a HP.

Wassup, /tpg/? Do I buy this?
https://jacksonville.craigslist.org/sys/6199908028.html
T430s with the i5 and 500GB HDD. They want $100. What do?

>>61166494
what is it?
>those unaligned stickers
not so sure about it now...

>>61166510
Getting drunk rn, about to finish my last beer an close out..
dunno what to talk about, my voice Ok but still coarse.

>>61166522
I'd get it for $100, good price w/ AC adapter and 8GB, & HDD
personally I would reinstall tho.

>>>61166510
>Getting drunk rn, about to finish my last beer an close out..
>dunno what to talk about, my voice Ok but still coarse.

eBay stuff,( but turn up the volume)

>>61166567
>what is it?
it's what the filename says.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Review-Samsung-Series-4-410B2B-Notebook.68793.0.html
was mentioned in the X230 review there.

that stickerbomb is hella cute. can't remember having seen a laptop with more.

>>61166773
the weird thing is, it's apparently not JDM or something, I take it was sold in europe since that review is there, but I see none ever on ebay.

>>61166106
Thank you very much, kind anon.

>>61166494
>samsung
ew

so I bought a ThinkPad T450, and it's great.
I have a small issue though.
I had a spare panel from a T460 lying around that was in a Latitude E4770, so I installed it into the T450.
Now the screen works fine but I can't adjust the brightness in Windows at all but it works in Linux.
From what I can gather I'll need to put the original screen back in, get the EDID values and then insert them into a registry key in Windows that holds the EDID values.
Anyone else have any experience with this?

>trying to take keyboard off
>broke a key

REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEee


Can I glue it back?

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>>61167942
It will never be the same anon

>>61167942
What kind of monkey are you? What machine do you have?