/tpg/ Thinkpad General

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>tfw you run your finger around the soft rim trackpoint

Escape key broke anons, I just got this chinkpad yesterday too. It keeps registering ghost presses and messing with the trackpoint, even in the bios

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>>62351278

Got my thinkpad and the fingerprint reader is not working. Does anybody even use it? I'm debating whether or not to return it.

>>62351278
Remap Caps lock to escape if you use it a lot. Much better position.

>>62351326
>giving your fingerprint to the Chinese

I'm going Uni soon, figures after being on /g/ a lot, I should get a thinkpad.

I want my laptop to basically be a capable desktop PC, so weight is not an issue (also im pretty strong).
Being an autist, I have autist hobbies. I need a thinkpad that can handle shit like
>photoshop
>after effect
>sony vegas
>playing overwatch
>can run emulators like dolphin at a decent framerate, at least 20.
>digital drawing and animating software (2d and 3d)
>coding
>anything that is usually in a physics degree that requires software, sorta like simulations in vpython

Weight is never an issue, it could be 20kg, shit dont bother me if its worth it. Its gonna be plugged in mostly. I'm good with 15.5 inch screens but smaller is fine.
What would you guys recommend?

>>62351321
>>62351278
Keyboard is kill

>>62351475
Since you'll be doing some really demanding stuff, P50 or P51

>>62351406
Can I disable escape?

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>>62351475
W or P series, the workstation ones, are what you're looking for.

>>62350892
Fix'd. Old one generally ran at about 89c, so this is a notable improvement.

>>62351240
Why don't y'all just get a zenbook?

>>62351556
>Why don't y'all just get a anus cancer?
no ty

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>>62351556
botnet

>>62351556
>paper thin overheating notebooks

Yes, because all of us love ThinkPads for their slim design.

>>62351578
Bluray Drive for W500 or should I just get an external one, awoo-kun?

>>62351578
Hey it's the Japanese keyboard anon from the previous thread

Thanks I found it, I'll let you know how it works out once I get paid!

>>62351507
>>62351406
>>62351477
Nah, keyboard is just broke. Rip I guess I'll get another.

>>62351578
>buys lenovo chink trash
>calls out others for botnet laptops
lmao

>>62351491
>>62351508
Which W models would you recommend?

>>62351240
Elementary OS y/n?

>>62351757
W530 for price/performance ratio
P71 if you aren't spending your own money

What's the most recent X model with a removable CPU?

>>62351969
there is none

>>62351981
Well, shit. T440p then?

>>62352017
y if you don't mind no coreboot support

Is t400 good?

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>>62352017
That's the latest one with socketed CPUs, aye.

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>>62351508
Nice. I'm getting pic related idle with 4chen but it's only the stock 4300M. As soon as i find a cheap 4800MQ i'm buying the dGPU heatsink.

I have a dankpad with winblows 7 on it. I'm finding I'm running into issues with key combinations / rollovers.

I can't seem to input four simultaneous keyboard inputs. Three is fine. I'm trying to use a virtual desktop manager (virtuawin) and it doesn't go very well. Any inputs inb4 >not tech support ?

>>62351731
Damn, I cleaned it with some rubbing alcohol and got a little bit on the keys, but I let it sit and dry upside down for like two hours, so I figured it would be dry by then.

It worked for a solid couple of hours before it randomly starting acting up and it hasn't worked since.

All of you memebois getting t420/x220 keyboards for the t430/x230 means I have to pay extra to replace it too.

No big I guess, I just swapped the keyboards of my t420 with the x220 and I'll wait for the replacement in a week hopefully. I am just wondering whether the keyboard just happened to die or if it was because of the rubbing alcohol.

>>62352209
You might not need it, mine wasn't throttling with the stock one. I just wanted to experiment.

>>62351508
Thats a pretty decent drop. Considering my workload this seems like a worth while addition.

>>62352345
Do you have a point of reference before the quad core upgrade? I wonder how hot it'll get with two extra cores if i'm getting around 24 with this 4300m.

>You might not need it
Lower temps is always good for me.

>>62351508
Worth noting that both of those were done about an hour after I'd put fresh thermal paste on.

>>62352409
Idle, not really. I remember that at peak it was hitting the 70s though.

Yours is definitely running cooler than mine ever did.

Going back to community college probably next semester. I'm gonna study some kind of CS. I've only dabbled in some slight programming so I don't know a lot. Basically my question is how hard is compiling on a CPU? Right now I have
>X200T - C2D SL9400
>X220T - i7-2620M
>W520 - i7-2720QM

So I'm fairly certain I can do whatever programming I'm going to learn but I'm wondering how they will perform and if I can get away with my X200T? I'm thinking of either learning Java or C++ as that's what my college offers. Then again I'm thinking of going full meme and doing web design. If I go that route, then any of these will do and the W520 is complete overkill.

>>62352621
Anything is fine, but in general lower specifications = longer compile time, but that is not going to be an issue for you when it comes to the small programming you'll be doing in college.

>>62352621
just take that X220t and impress everybody with the nice twisting display :^)

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>>62348431

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>>62352729

for anyone who wants pepe as their POST splash screen just name this LOGO.gif

>>62352772
these things need a booru or an album or something, i still have the yuru yuri ones

>>62352789

Everyone post theirs then or any that they have and we can make an imgur album for them

>>62352848
If anyone has a Megumin one post it

That's my wife

>>62352690
Yeah I figured that might be the case. My C2D is still fine enough for me for everything I do, I can edit pictures/audio perfectly fine and even run an N64 emulator with no problems.

>>62352698
But the X200T has a screen that swivels in BOTH directions!

>>62352772
Can I do this on the x230, and I can use other images?

>>62352911

Yes it is designed for x220/x230, it should work fine on any 16:9 screen theoretically. It's super simple procedure btw.

>>62352911
Yes but it's limited to 30kb filesize. The main issue is ending with a 30kb image that doesn't look like shit.

>>62352933
>>62352963
different anon here, link to custom bios process?

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>>62352933
Does it work for a T440p?

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I literally have 5 of these that I picked up today from the trash. All either T60 or T61's, what to do?

>>62353065
>I literally have 5 of these that I picked up today from the trash. All either T60 or T61's, what to do?
restore and sell to college students, they'll be thankful
maybe recolor them too and check for faults
install win7 or linux mint

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>>62352888
checkd

>>62352772
Serious question.
Where does one place the logo? How does the bios have immediate access to the drive?

>>62353137
O fug I didn't even notice

Please don't lewd my wife

someone post a quick vid of their thinkpad booting up with one of these images 'please'
>>62353065
can I have one of the t60's with an ibm logo for cheap? I'm a europoor ;;

>>62352997
Yes and in fact you have another option, logo1 and logo2 for UEFI mode (replacing the lenovo logo and the windows logo when booting, if you use windows 8.1 or 10).

>>62353165
but megumin is built for sex

>>62351598
>bluray

Nice anti-freedom DRM. External if you must have one.

>>62351713
Cool! For sure let me know, I've been trying to keep a list of sellers that haven't fucked me yet.

>>62351749
>has no idea what she's talking about

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>>62353210
YAMERO

>>62353210
Where do you find the template for it?

>>62352323
Should I just let it dry a few hours and try again? I ordered a new one in the mean time so hopefully I won't have to cancel it, but on the other hand, if the keyboard will work again that'd fix all the problems.

I just wet it with water and put it in front of a fan to wait for a few hours I guess.

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>>62353194
it just replaces the thinkpad logo for one or two seconds when booting, nothing else

this is on coreboot iirc but it's the same with the original bios my.mixtape.moe/wnqryg.webm

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rough draft of a splashscreen image my friend made for me
not done yet but could someone convert it for me when it is?

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>>62352789
>>62352848

>>62353229
>assuming my gender

>>62353522
>"Esta laptop es una mierda"
spic version

Is an X61t good for drawing Fluffy abuse?

>>62353549
yaaas

but if possible step up to X200t

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>>62353522
fixed
everyone say thank you danny if you use it
except you can't use it yet because I don't know what the fuck I do with it now
someone tl;dr it so I can chunk it on my x60

>>62353599
its 10kb too large
get it down to 30kb, download lenovo bios update utility. extract it but dont install the update. save file as LOGO1.BMP or GIF in the extracted folder. Run update exec. You should get a notice about replacing the default logo. dont turn your pc off while its flashing or you'll brick your thinkpad

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>>62353599
here i resized it to <30kb for you, now download your bios or modded bios and follow the instructions in the bios_logo.txt file

>>62353210
Good to know, thanks anon. I'll throw some suitably degenerate images together. Any good guides out there for later Thinkpads? First one I found looks like it's only for xx20 and older.

>>62353695
It's the same procedure (image smaller than 30kb and 640x480), >>62353430 is my 440p.

>>62353522
You missed the spanish translation:
"Esta portátil es una mierda"

And the english to japanese spacing is bigger than the chinese to french one

>>62351240
oh oh... if you thought your laptop was hot, wait to see this
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-may-be-planning-an-AMD-ThinkPad-lineup-with-Raven-Ridge-APUs.237028.0.html

>>62353650
Wait can this be done with linux?
>>62353764
Spanish is ugly

>>62353661
>Dieser Laptop ist Scheiße.

Wrong. The word "Scheiße" with a capital S is a noun so it would mean that the laptop is literally made out of feces.
If "scheiße" is supposed to be an adjective it has to be written with a lower case s.

>>62353790
>linux?
If you want to update your BIOS using Linux you have to download a bootable BIOS ISO. Maybe you can replace the image in the ISO but I'm not sure.

>>62353797
i didn't made it, just resized that anons image m8

>>62353735
Ah, thanks.

>>62353797
Heyo du deutsche Nazikartoffel, wen wählst du?

>>62353543
yoink, stolen. thanks anon

>>62353797
I used google translate for engrish humour appeal you daft cunt

>>62353831
Die PARTEI
sie ist sehr gut

>>62353826
I didn't assume you made it.

Anyone here ever use a T500? Thinking of picking one up for $100 CAD

>>62353859
nee die Piraten sind besser

>>62353968
ich wähle keine Zecken
alle erschießen

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is this serious?
I can only get 2 hours max

>>62354124
with a genuine 9-cell and power saver mode, yeah looks okay

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>>62353735
I like this. Thanks, anon.

>>62354112
na kannstes net verkraften dass hitler versagt hat?

>>62354124

It depends. With my X220 and a 9cell battery I can get 9 hours of life but this is with screen brightness at it's lowest, CPU capped at 800MHz and screen set to turn off after 1min of inactivity. With these tests though they usually do it with a select few sites so everything is cached in the browser minimising the cost of redownloading the webpage.

>>62353543
>>62354152

>>62354152
remove the bios message, there's an option to do that but i forgot where it was

>>62354152
autistic

>>62354159
Ich kann es nicht verkraften, dass die arbeitslosen Schnorrer uns noch mehr Sandneger ins Land holen wollen. Selbst ihre ursprüngliche Idee vom freien Internet haben die doch mittlerweile verraten.

>>62354182
No idea where to look on mine desu. Had a skim through the bios options, don't see it.

>>62354224
na die partei wirds eh net schaffen

entweder die behinderte AfD oder deine stimme geht verloren

>>62354152
>>62354170

My pleasure

>>62354250
>stimme geht verloren
Komplett falsch. Keine Stimme geht verloren, und die PARTEI wählt man sowieso nur, weil man sich von keiner anderen Partei repräsentiert sieht.
Die AfD macht gute Gesellschaftspolitik aber im Bezug auf Wirtschaft sind die eine totale Katastrophe. Der Rest will entweder die Islamisierung oder alles geschenkt oder beides.

>>62352789
I'll keep an eye on all the ones people post in this thread, but I've got no idea where else to look for them. Mind posting yours?

>>62352848
>>62354337
stand aside, autism coming through
my.mixtape.moe/fitcku.gif
my.mixtape.moe/bfxqsr.gif
my.mixtape.moe/cyqgex.gif
my.mixtape.moe/ggmcic.gif
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>>62354244
startup tab > boot option message or something like that

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>>62354322
>Die AfD macht gute Gesellschaftspolitik

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>>62354557
Thanks anon.

>>62354583
Trying, will update.

>>62354649
Wenigstens holen die uns nicht die Vergewaltiger ins Land.

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>>62354583
Yep, that works. C L E A N

>>62354557
almost made me destroy my thinkpad

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>>62354703
>es gab davor keine vergewaltigungen

Just bought a t420 on eBay. Did I make a mistake?

>>62354716
>facebook frog
Come on.

>>62354731
And that's why you stay away from other thinkpad users and feign ignorance if asked about yours.

>>62354757
Gegen die Vergewaltiger in den eigenen Reihen kann man nicht viel mehr tun als verurteilen und einsperren. Was Ausländer angeht, haben wir die Wahl. Die derzeitige Bundesregierung (damit meine ich alle an dem Entscheidungsprozess beteiligten Personen PERSÖNLICH) trägt durch die Entscheidung, die Grenzen offen zu halten, die Verantwortung für jedes Verbrechen, das von "Flüchtlingen" begangen wurde.

>>62354779
no you did a good
also why are you asking us after you bought it
you're either, stupid, knowledgeable, or a bait

>>62354779
Specs, price, general condition?

>>62354811
I-I'm just trying out the ones people posted.

>>62354779
yes it has a locked bios

German fucks gtfo

>>62354815
This is not pol you fucking niggers, discuss nazi politics somewhere else

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>>62352772
I'd made it early if I'd known it's so damn simple to make.

>>62354848
Is that something I should have been worried about or are you fucking with me?
>>62354843
Looked to be in okay condition. It was $130 for the i5 2520m with a 250gb hard drive and 6gb ram.
>>62354818
I just wanted to talk about it because I'm excited. I've been without a computer for 4 months and I'm thinking about trying out Linux when I get this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-F1fotVDfc

Sing along with following lyrics:


>Travelling with an Acer laptop
>With cheap looks and full of botnet
>I met a black beauty, with Core 2 Duo
>Red-Green-Blue, a sexy logo

>Now I'm a ThinkPad user
>It's just the comfiest computer
>Appreciate my four by three screen
>Fuck off normie Apple pre-teens

>Sitting in a Starbuck's cafe
>With a blonde lady next to me
>She said 'What a dinosaur laptop'
>But I just smiled and continued ricing my dekstop

>And I said
>'I am a ThinkPad user
>It's just the comfiest computer
>Appreciate my four by three screen
>Fuck off normie Apple pre-teens'


I hereby declare this the official /tpg/ hymn. We need more verses though.

>>62353522
>turn laptop on in an airplane
>they think you're a terrorist

>>62354991
>Is that something I should have been worried about or are you fucking with me?
mine did anyway

>>62355054
>playing CSGO on airplane
>"the bomb has been planted"

>>62354991
It's a potential issue, yes. If it didn't say it had a locked BIOS you should be fine.

Make sure to dual boot with Windows, you'll appreciate the familiarity. It's also worth considering swapping an SSD in, it'll make everything much faster.

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what's the lightest Thinkpad I can buy that still has the traditional keyboard?

I don't like the 900p display, is there any way to buy one with 1080p in it?

>>62355109
iirc X200s with the 900x1440 screen and a 6cell

>>62355144
yes buy a t440p

or the t/w5* thinkpads

>>62355144
Don't be a retarded, get a W/T520

>>62355175
but they are 900p stock

>>62355052
Haha, not bad, not bad

>>62355193
no baka
you can install 1080p in them without mods

>>62351240
So how do you undo the keyboard swap EC flash mod?
none of this shit is working and the person who made this sucks at english and actually telling what you need to do.

>>62355052
kek

>>62355267
you're fucked

>>62355252
i dont wanna

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Lets see if this works

Will a T61 keyboard fit/work on my T430 or X230 even?

I'll do this and post pics if true.

>>62355390
>71kb

Isn't the limit 30?

>>62355390
delete this

>>62355405
dungoofd, I'll try to remove something

>>62355390
>72kb
it wont

dumb frogposter

With more and more businesses moving away from thinkpads (and business laptops in general) to MacBook pros, Dell XPS, HP spectre, etc, how can we expect Thinkpads to become cheap every 4 years? With less corporations buying thinkpads that means there will be less thinkpads flooding the market once they're done with them. The only reason old thinkpads are so good and so cheap is because biz buys so much. Will the x240/x250 become the last old good cheap thinkpads?

Which Thinkpads have the best battery life? X200 and T400 series?

>>62355390

youd be better off making it all black/white with red dot

>>62355448
the X40 shill here would tell you about his great battery life on it.
I get 4 hours on the t420, about twice as much on the x200

which bios does my T430 need for the i7 3632qm? I am running on 2.53

>>62355494
doesn't matter

>>62355162
X201s still has the old keyboard and also get the 4cell, it's not only lighter but smaller and completely flush with the laptop

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Anyone mind helping me with this? Not sure how to drop the file size further.

>>62355750
post the original

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>>62355767

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>>62355767
lel, this is the smallest filesize for a similar image I can find

8 or 16 gb for a T440p?

>>62354655
How to change without update bios ?

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>>62355802
>>62355802
oh i thought you made it in a higher resolution and then downscaled it, nvm.

>>62355862
flashing the same version again also works, no need to upgrade

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>>62355750

>>62355853

16GB of DDR3L 2133MHz or 1866MHz if you're poor.

>>62355903
Thanks. Do you have a specific nrand that you like or would recommend?

>>62353661
Need to update to change the image or not

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>>62355883
>>62355897

Thanks. I think I need to move up the bottom text to make it work.

>>62355958
see >>62355883

>>62355967
Ok, that picture doesn't show it, but it cropped off the bottom text on the next boot.

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>>62355967
This one works, posting that in a moment.

>>62355883
Update the bios block hardware changes or something good on an old bios or upgrade is better ?
I can flash with official utility ?
I dont know if it's possible with an iso

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>>62355998
Should work fine for everyone now. Any 4:3 anons around willing to try it?

>>62356017
dude wat i can't understand shit

>>62354958

Can I have dat boot logo?

ITT: Future MacBook Pro owners. Once you get rich enough, like me.

>>62355937

Nothing in particular but probably this: https://www.amazon.com/HyperX-2133MHz-SODIMM-HX321LS11IB2K2-16/dp/B00NTQ0GOM/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1505080899&sr=1-1-catcorr&keywords=2133Mhz+ddr3l

Found a X220 I5 4GB RAM, 320GB for $149 at a local place near me.
Anybody recommend this? I like the X Series size. Can I upgrade this to a SSD? Should I just go with like an X230?

>>62356192
yeah can't wait to upgrade my retina mbp processor

>>62356057
>>62356057
I don't know if update the bios of the T420 is a bad idea or not if i need to change hardware
Can i flash the version of the bios with official utility
I am on Linux how do that
With 16:9 screen i can only use 4:3 image ?
I have a gif i dont know if that works

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>>62356192
I don't miss mine.

>>62356255
>>62356037
>>62355998
That's a 4:3 image flashed on a 16:9 display.

Check if your specific model has a BIOS Update Utility with Linux support.

>>62355052
I like it

>>62356255
>I don't know if update the bios of the T420 is a bad idea or not if i need to change hardware
For the T420 either you get the latest official bios or the modded bios, you can change the logo regardless of the bios.
>Can i flash the version of the bios with official utility
You're supposed to do that.
>I am on Linux how do that
No idea i don't use Linux.
>With 16:9 screen i can only use 4:3 image ?
Yes you need a 640x480 image, for a 16:9 screen just make a 16:9 one and force the aspect ratio to 4:3.
>I have a gif i dont know if that works
It does and it's the best format to get files with small filesize and "decent" quality.

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>>62355390
>>62354958
>>62354716

I guess now's a good time to make you guys jelaous. If you're running Coreboot or Libreboot, you can use any png image at any size you want (as long as it fits in your flash chip). For example, I have a 8MB flash chip on my W500, so I can have a ~7MB boot image at full color quality.

Currently I just have it set to black. Should I make something special?

>>62356351
you run debian right? how are you flashing the bios?

>>62354958
S-share pls

>>62356351
May as well, make sure you make it ridiculously large.

>>62356374
Set the kernel parameter "iomem=relaxed", then you can just use flashrom on your internal chip. Just remember that you can't do this unless you've already flashed Libreboot/Coreboot.

>>62356389
I'll make something pretty...

>>62356200
Christ that's almost as much as I paid for the computer itself

>>62356351
Eh i'd rather have the shitty 30kb logo and being able to run my proprietary OS with proprietary software that just werks on my proprietary hardware full of intel backdoors.

>Should I make something special?
make something lewd please

>>62356467
My OS just werks as well. The wonders of having fully free software-compatible hardware is that most distros instantly work without any driver installation because they already have kernel compatibility.

>make something lewd please
Hmmmm, not a bad idea.

>>62356281
>>62356329
How to force aspect ratio ?
OK so if i want change the logo i flash with the same version ?
Gif is better than bitmap ?
Update the bios is a bad idea for change hardware ?

>>62356667
Not sure, I didn't have to do anything to make mine stretch itself.
Don't think it matters, mine was.
Yes, imo, because it's easier to get a smaller file size if you don't know what you're doing.
Shouldn't change anything, I've swapped the CPU in mine with zero issues.

>>62355967
>gas
kek

>>62356452
Are ram prices normally this expensive?

>>62356792
I wasn't even trying to frame that, kek

Considering trying to make that into a boot image.

>>62356743

Friend is looking for a laptop, mainly for FL Studio and Photoshop. I was thinking about recommending a quad core T440P/T430, because FL Studio scales well with the extra cores, but I don't know how usable Photoshop would be on it considering they've only got HD4000/HD4600 iGPUs. Is that still relevant?

Is a $50 price increase worth it for an i7 X230 compared to the i5 model? Is there a noticeable difference between the two?

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Special for 4chan since I'm not into the anime lolis

Hey guys I can't stand having any dignity and want to be made fun of. Which Apple laptop do you guys spit on the most?

>>62357413
>320x480
wut

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>>62357413
>>62356873
Consideration done, enjoy. I think this'll work.

>>62357486
The Air.

My X61T is now a decade old. Looking to upgrade to something newer. Priorities:

1. Battery life
2. Weight

Recommendations?

>>62356899
pls respong

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>>62357508
>>62357508
>646

I'm retarded.

Looking at getting a t520 for 150$
thinkpads are expensive in NZ
i5-2520M, 4gb DDR3 and 320 SATA HDD
bit of wear on the track pad

Should I pull the trigger?

>>62357566
Heh, I just got one of those. Love it.

>>62357620
150$ usd btw

>>62357608
Doesn't it have to be .gif, too?

>>62357623
Im looking at getting a Z60t, is it worth?
The one im looking at is 70$

>>62357493
im assuming itll auto justify to 640, if not just plop it in the middle of a 640x480 canvas

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>>62357652
Nah, .bmp works as well as this.

That answers why my Windows one was getting text cropped off, there's a goddamn black bar there.

can you test my.mixtape.moe/uzukzw.gif and see if it works

>>62357566
x240

>>62357672
meant for >>62357709

>>62357668
I don't know. They're not really comparable

>>62357566
give me your x61t

>>62357738
Ive also found an X61 for 100$, How much did you pick yours up for?

>>62357391
No, the dual core i7s are just slightly higher clocked i5s.

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>>62357709
What's the source of that?

>>62357790
>my.mixtape.moe/uzukzw.gif
The heart should be red

got the keyboard and palm rest et al off my x60t but can't figure out how to remove the screen, any ideas?

>>62357772
Assuming you mean an X61t, I got mine for 20€ though the pen is missing and I had to order one for 25€ (In the EU they're massively expenive)

One thing to look out for with the X60t and X61t is the battery latches. There are 2 battery locks that last forever but the back of the batteryis held in place by 2 super flimsy latches that are bound to break off. If you have to fix is you can make new latches from plastic and glue them to your battery. Works fine for me.

How easy is it to reset a BIOS pass on an x220?

If anyone could test
>>62357577
>>62357413

Either one, I made them up pretty quickly and think they should work. my gf is on my thinkpad right now so i cant test them myself. the terminator one was my first attempt at creating a bios logo but these should look cleaner

>>62357806
there my.mixtape.moe/syglem.gif

>>62357878
Sorry anon, I'm off for the night. If no-one else does, I'll try them tomorrow. The terminator one works so those should too.

>>62357811
nvm i'm dumb

Can I encrypt my boot partition if my T500's motherboard is BIOS, not UEFI?

>>62347119
you around today, anon?
that sounds like a pretty sweet deal to me. ill see about that T430. it should be enough for them, it just depends on whether they trust me to find a used product that needs upgrades and deliver it to them in one piece, haha. (what about T450, havent heard anything about those at all, and they were difficult to find on ebay when i looked). according to the thinkpad buyers guide in the OP, s series are generally not as good. is the difference enough to make me regret my purchase of a T420s over a T420? i really like the smaller form factor of the x series, but screen quality is important enough to me that i would get a T420 over an x220/230 if i cant buy a better screen for them. from what you're saying, im leaning towards a T420 right now, as i kind of want the classic thinkpad experience with the older keyboard. some anons were posting about a thinkpad where you could take out the disc drive and replace it with an hdd, would you know which one that was?

according to the link in the OP, i can put a touchpad from a 550 into a T440. how possible is this to actually do? T440 seems like a nice sweet spot for what I want, but id like that touchpad with buttons

>>62357982
>how possible is this to actually do?
what the fuck

just remove the old one and install the new one

I'm probably going to get a refurbed 3rd gen X1 Carbon for schoolwork and other light stuff, is that a good idea?

The price is decent (about the same as a refurb T440/T450) and it's got base specs: i5-5200U, 8GB RAM and a 180GB SSD.

>>62357878
how do

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>>62351240
Hey dudes
I'm looking for a 15" workstation that can handle at least 3 drives.
Preferably 4, I'm fine with 1 or 2 of them being msata.
Would also like discrete graphics
Does the elitebook 8570w i7 fit this?
I can't find anything about how many drives it can take or if it even has an msata/m.2 port

Just got my X230 (i5-3220M, 8GB RAM, 320GB HDD). I'm loving it so far.

>take screen off my x60t
>takes me ages because i'm a retard
>find out I can't libreboot it
JUST

>>62358317
Also if there are any 8770w owners who can let me know about the storage options on it I would be much obliged.
That's the other machine I'm looking at

>>62353426
Send help, is there anything I can do to possibly be able to use it again? The keys were malfunctioning, and I didn't understand how the rubbing alcohol took over two hours to evaporate and took another two to actually mess up the keyboard.

Be careful anons. I'll check it in a couple of hours when I get home

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so I recently bought a T420 that has a BIOS with Computrace enabled and activated. I called their tech support and they sent me an email saying Computrace is now disabled. (previous owner's contract expired and was never reported stolen)
now 48 hrs later their program is still running and bios option greyed out. should I just buy a clean motherboard off ebay rather than deal with this gay shit?

Hey guys I don't think you deserve ThinkPads because they are far too good for you. Homosexuals need something inferior or they might actually be productive and get somewhere in life. Dell laptops will get you that all while making you think you are using a ThinkPad due to the similar design.

>>62358387
I'll buy it from you if you want, i don't care about trannyboot.

>>62358719
I think you're right anon

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After using a macbook the touchpad on the thinkpad is undeniably shit.

My main problem with it is that the trackpad feels almost no different from the surrounding black chasis.

How difficult would it be to crowfund a chinese company to create a tempered glass trackpad surface? The trackpad surface itself on the thinkpad is just a replaceable sticker and smartphone tempered glass are super cheap now. Like literally a tempered glass "screen protector" in the dimensions of the trackpad size with smooth edges. You could sell it for $10 and it would cost pennies to make.

SOMEBODY MAKE THIS HAPPEN

>>62358989
I should also add most thinkpad trackpads are the same size. A trackpad sticker for the t400 would fit models all the way up to the w530

>>62358989
useless shit, just remove the touchpad entirely

trackpoint master race

>>62359025
trackpoint is a shit tier unwieldy pointing mechanism with an insanely low choppy polling rate resulting in inaccuracies.

>>62358989
packing tape works better

>>62359071
packing tape doesn't have oleophobic coating

>>62359061
You have obviously either never used one or never set one up correctly. The trackpoint is without doubt the best mouse input device ever invented. I don't use anything else across all computers and honestly it's the only reason why I bought a T460p over a Dell XPS

>>62358989
You think you're touching someone's penis when you use the MacBook, that's why.

>>62359061
You're a shit tier unwieldy pointing mechanism. The trackpoint is based as fug.

>>62359111
>>62359198
Liking the trackpoint is like liking a trap for the penis

>>62359215
Liking the Trackpoint is like likin an amusement park for the rides

>>62359215
>damage control via penis analogies
sasuga macfags

>>62359215
>>62359251
Penis? I thought it was a 'clit' mouse

Libreboot for w530 when?

Just put Devuan on my T60. Feels like freedom but I can't get pam and fprintd to work well, might need a full reboot.

Last one for today

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>>62359668
derp

thoughts on the T470p? How is upgradeability and does it have egpu support?

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what's the best thinkpad to get just to show to other people I own a thinkpad?

>>62359889
w701ds with anime vinyl on the lid and anime bios logo while watching anime on the main screen and reading trap doujins on the secondary screen at the same time

What model number and how much ram does everyone have

>>62360036
w530 with 16GB

>>62360085
>>62360036

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>>62360036
>>62360085
>>62360111

>>62359889
t420 tbqh senpai

Whats the best way to clean an old gross as fuck T420?

>>62360583
Isopropyl the fuck out of it.

>4GB refurbished Kingston ram for $10
Worth the risk?

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>Found an extra 2GB stick of DDR2 today
>Upgraded from 3GB to 4GB the T61
>mfw

>>62360607
sure why not

Found a good condition x220 for 150$ is that a good deal?
The seller hasn't responded to my question about the BIOS
i5 -2520M, 500gb HDD and 4gb of RAM

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thoughts on the e550? battery is priority over power will be running macos or ubuntu on it

>tfw people use your Thinkpad and they always use the trackpad
Disgusting.

>>62360663
I dont like the keyboard, but thats just preference

>>62360663

>Chiclet keyboard

ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING

>>62360663
>That keyboard
Bleurgghhh

>>62360717
whys the E series so frowned upon here? the e550 is serviceable but it has a 5200u, i can pick it up for 400 aud new

I need a wallpaper for my T430.
any suggestions?

>>62360748
ONLY THE X, T AND W SERIES ARE ALLOWED ON THIS BOARD

Someone tell me where to get a cheap battery for a x201 pls newfag here

>>62358989
T440s has the clicky trackpad

>>62360793
dont buy a cheap battery trust

Opinions on the elitebook 8770w as a desktop replacement?
Is there a thinkpad equivalent?

>>62360839
fair where should i get a proper one? I dont want the default one right?

>>62360843
Stock thinkpad batteries for Lenovo work great if they are new
For a 9 cell:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B0088C5QD8/ref=dp_olp_0?ie=UTF8&condition=all

>>62360843
Cant find a 6 cell one tho, or at least a good one
the 9 cell will cost around 100$

damn well thanks senpai, time 2 save up

>accidentally left my T420 at a cafe for 4 hours and nobody took it
The luck is real.

>>62361125
normies can't handle that business design swag

>>62361125

>Be a thief
>See a laptop
>Gonna steal it
>Just kidding it's a shitty thinkpad who's gonna want that shit?!

>>62361125
I leave my Thinkpad laying around everywhere I go and it's never been stolen. The average person doesn't know what they have in front of them.

What kind of idiot leaves their laptop?

Nigger here. I don't like that the chiclet keys are smile shaped as looking at it might make people happy. I want people to have frowns on there faces. I am going to act like having chiclet keys makes a laptop dirty somehow even though apple and dell laptops have them too.

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why doesn't this bootscreen work?

>>62361409
Nah. The chiclets are shit. The old style keyboards are way better.

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>>62361756
because you don't watch enough anime

try this one

>>62361794
thanks anon

>>62354169
I get about 7 hours with mid brightness, no power limitations and standard mixed leisure browsing and productivity on my X220

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Whats the best laptop for a student at 500-600 bucks? Should be portable too and run EE related programs

>>62360708
My touchpad is permanently disabled, you should do it too.

A w530 for 550 usd ouside USA? Has

> i7 3520M (the only downside)
> 8gb ram
> 1080p
> K2000
> prety much clean mint condition
> 2 hours of battery
> msata 254gb

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Is there a Sandy Bridge or newer X series with an IPS screen?

>>62362291
x220, x230, x240 for fullhd

>>62362291

X220 and you can swap the panel for ips, some anon showed an ebay x220 with the ips already swaped

>>62362304
>>62362312

ty anons

I know /tpg/ normally goes for the 20s and 30s, but are there any glaring issues with the x240? Hot swapping the battery is actually pretty useful for me.

>>62362361
Single RAM stick and the touchpad swap mod is mandatory if you want to use the trackpoint. Also less powerful than the x230 because it uses ulv processors but you get great battery life with them because of the 15w max tdp.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lenovo-Thinkpad-P50s-20FL000KUS-intel-i7-6500u-8GB-500GB-15-6-FHD-Win-7-Pro-/162512364179?hash=item25d67de293:g:iyYAAOSwBOtY~6x8
is this a good deal?

>>62362604
>7500U

Look for HQ, those are quad cores. $900 for a dual core is a waste.

>>62362291
W540. 3K IPS swap is $100/€80

>>62362263
Average price, but not a crazy bargain.

But considering you can get a quad core and maybe SSD for the same price, I suggest you take another look.

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Is pic related a real Thinkpad?

>>62363243
no

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>>62360663
I have an e550. It's alright, battery life isn't so good. But I might have fucked it up by having it plugged in all the time. But in my opinion it's great, haven't regretted it

>>62363272
Not him, but care to elaborate? I have one and it's pretty comfy. Not as old school as my X220, but still very good.

>>62363384
Why should having it plugged in all the time fuck it up?

>>62363384
That does not harm to the battery.

>>62363459
Because old people say it does.

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>>62363909
Oh boy, well the more I know then.
>>62363384
So correction to my post. Battery life isn't too great

>>62363968
If your battery seems to hold less charge you got a lot of options to recondition it with the Lenovo energy manager thingy. Keeping it plugged in is OK, though it would be even better to set loading thresholds so it always stays between 50% and 60%

I'm planning on buying a X1C 2017. I previously had a used x220, which broke and a used x230, which broke after maybe 3 months or so. The thing is expensive, but I need one for university and I just want something that is not going to just break down randomly.

T440s or T440p? I'm going to use them for uni (studying Computer Engineering)

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Does anyone use KDE Plasma? please report in if you do

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>bought P50 so I can work while on the go
>first trip I take with it is to the US
>flight ends and I put my laptop bag on my seat as I get my carry on down
>ham beast hits my laptop bag with her knee, throwing it to the floor
>only manage to restrain myself from berating the cunt because my gf would hate it if I made a scene
>she gives me the weakest 'oh sorry' I have ever heard
>only manage to take solace in the fact that she will probably die young

The thing hasn't disappointed, feels good to work outside of the office sometimes.

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I heard this would trigger your autism.

if i buy a used thinkpad what are the odds there's a hardware gaylogger or backdoor left by the previous owner? how do you purge everything before installing your loonix of choice

Does having a GT730m in a T440p give any problems under GNU/Linux? Reduced battery life, worse performance or anything?

>>62364702
Install new OS.
Coreboot/libreboot.
Ensure that BIOS lock is absent.
Ensure that computrace is disabled.

>>62364791
You can disable it with Honeybee or Bumblebee or whatever, and then the only downside is a bit of weight.

>>62365446
Yeah but I've read about some issues with Optimus or Bumblebee or whatever with T440p and GNU/Linux, stuff like this: https://github.com/Bumblebee-Project/bbswitch/issues/78

I dunno if it's fixed though

Hey guys, how do I flash a new boot image on my T420?