thinkpads im in lurve
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- trooperbill
any thinkpad converts on here - i know this might be heresy but i just got a 2nd hand t440s and its an amazing piece of kit. already tore it down to basics and rebuilt it just for funzies
- detritus1
My next computer will be a secondhand Thinkpad laptop.
Saw an i7 in great nick recently for £200. Phoned into reserve it later and... gone.
- hans_glib0
i have my parents' old ibm thinkpad, minus a hard drive, if anyone wants it. god knows what spec it is.
- mugwart1
I got a second hand one. Love it. Stripped down and put linux on her.
- Hayzilla-1
About £400 cheaper than a MacBook with same spec too.
- smaller screen, no discrete GPU, half as many display ports for about the same price as far as I can see ... but it has a fingerprint scan and bigger HDmonospaced
- also, it's plastic, not aluminummonospaced
- ^ sound like from an AAPL stock owner.uan
- lolfuck, shut up ben, the x1 carbon destroys a comparable macbookimbecile
- on that port thing you mentioned... https://www.slant.co…imbecile
- even when compared to a pro, the pro losesimbecile
- why are you so angry and such a prick that you have to attempt to intimidate with a real name? You have serious issues, whackomonospaced
- I was only talking about specs and price differences. No need to be a total asshole.monospaced
- ^ I compared 15" with same spec. Stand by my claim.Hayzilla
- shapesalad0
- looks unusable to me. why so many screens and the legs it stand on look flimsy as hell.kona
- good LAN games though?cannonball1978
- garbage1
About a decade of second-hand Thinkpadding under my belt. Love the keyboards, use them as my writing rigs.
This is being typed from an X200 (lol).
- uan0
always loved the design and performance since they came out, and lenovo took good care of the line since they bought it from ibm. they make the ISS stay in orbit, must be good.
good idea getting second-hand machines, let's see how long this mbp lasts then I'll look into it.
- section_0140
Not a thinkpad, but I got my first non-Apple laptop in over 10 years recently. A 13" Dell Inspiron 7000. The build is every bit as good as a MBP (keyboard is way better, imo), and it even looks like one. Aluminum chasis, nice display, sleek design, and no issues to speak of.
Plus, at $800, it's less than half what a comparable MBP would be. Which, really isn't a fair comparison because the MBP's are still a generation behind with CPU's.
- side note: Ubuntu installed with zero issues. Didn't need to install any drivers manually.section_014
- detritus0
I'm heartened by this thread, and in some small way, unsurprised.
I've been thinking of late how in many respects we've reached a kind of peak processing, where pretty much any half-decent machine from the past few years can work perfectly well for most tasks.
Buying second hand machines which, as with thinkpads, are fairly easy to fix or upgrade, makes a lot of sense.
Also, I'm cheap as shit.
- Not hardcore you,video or whatever shit,obv.detritus
- Fucking shitty iPad typing, sorry.detritus
- The "last few years" comment is mostly true outside of the newest 8th gen CPU's. They're 40% faster than 7th gen.section_014
- huh, I'd had my head out of that space for awhile, seems you're right.
https://gizmodo.com/…detritus - although I see that Intel's naming system for their family of processors hasn't got any easier to understand...detritus
- monNom0
I'm a big fan of the Thinkpad too. Mine has a built in wacom digitizer and pen, so it's basically a 14" touch screen cintiq, but with a great keyboard, dedicated graphics, and all that for around $800US when I got it (model 20fy0002us).
- imbecile0
x1 carbon for the win
the touchscreen alone makes it better
- saving for a 3rd gen one of these but will prob have to resave for a better screen.trooperbill
- drgs0
I have a P50 at work. As garbage pointed out the keyboard is probably the only laptop keyboard I can type without having to look at it, but I have it in a docking station, so not really interacting with it much
- Nairn0
Saw one on eBay yesterday and asked the seller about screen quality.
It has 32Gb, and I was ready to pounce.. but then actually looked into what model it is and when it's from ...annnnd... 2011. I'm not sure I can go quite that far back.
So now I'm looking into ~2015 era X1s, but they have 14" screens. The laptop I'm on now has ~15" and I'm not sure I'd want to go smaller.
But then, the ones I'm looking on eBay are ~3 years old and less than a third of their original cost.
Cool brory, sto.
- if your able to have linux on her then any model is fine.mugwart
- Nairn0
Took me a bit longer than I expected to get around to this, but I need to be able to do work stuff on my two weeks abroad over Christmas and the NY so finally ordered a second hand Thinkpad, which has just arrived.
Fuck me, what a beautiful little thing it is in person! I don't know why I put off getting one for so long — I guess I was concerned about buying a refurbished PC from eBay, but barring a small scuff on the bottom of the lid, the thing is in perfect nick. I'm not even going to put stickers on it as I assumed I might, to hide blemishes (sorry, QBN).
It's one of these
..now i have to spend my weekend installing Adobe Suite, web shit and CAD shit and then gutting bloody Windows bloody 10 of as much of its tracking shit as I can :\ NERDGASM
- microkorg0
I have a 13" x201 that I bought secondhand a few years ago. Maxed the ram and put in an SSD. Used to use it as my 2nd computer - so for music making and surfing rather than design work.
Got a new Dell last year but havent got rid of the thinkpad as it's probably only worth about £60 on eBay. Its an indestructable little machine that even takes spills on the keyboard, channels it then poops it out the little drains underneath. Keeping it for if I ever play gigs.