/tpg/ - ThinkPad General

Don't buy anything OTHER THAN IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T, X, and W/P Series if you want the Real Business Experience™
>Other business laptops are welcome in /tpg/ (Dell Latitude/Precision, HP EliteBook/ZBook)

Why ThinkPad?
>Used machines are plentiful and cheap
>Excellent keyboards, tactile feel and quiet
>Great durability: magnesium roll cage for structural integrity, with high quality plastic body panels
>Utilitarian design: e.g. indicator LEDs, 7 row keyboard layout on older models
>Docking stations that easily turns your laptop into a desktop
>Easy to repair (most models), upgrade & maintain thanks to readily available service manuals for every model, spare parts easy & cheap to obtain
>Excellent Linux & *BSD support

ThinkWiki - General info about ThinkPads/specs
thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki

Modern models:
>X220/X230 - 12", 768p, cheap and light
>T420/T430 - 14", 900p (1080p w/mod board), Ivy Bridge support on T420 w/coreboot, quad core upgrade, classic keyboard mod on xx30 series
>T520/530; W520/530 - 15", 1080p, DTR, 32GB RAM on quad core models
>T440p/540p; W540/1 - last ThinkPads with socketed processors, easily replaceable trackpad (W541 doesn't need trackpad replacement)
>T440s/T450(s)/T460(s)/T470(s) - ultraportables, good battery life
>T480 - last ThinkPad with swappable battery, T25 keyboard mod, excellent performance/battery life, getting cheaper

Upgraded models:
>X210 - X200/X201, i5-8250U quad core
>X62/X63 - X61, i5-5250U
>T70 - T60, i7-7700HQ
IPS displays, USB 3.0, M.2 x4, MiniDP, no dock
forum.51nb.com/forum.php?mod=forumdisplay&fid=117

BIOS replacement:
coreboot.org - T440p, X131e, X1C1, and xx30 series (no 61) or older
libreboot.org - X/T60 and xx00 series

Additional resources:
biosimage.booru.org
1vyra.in

UEFI patches:
github.com/digmorepaka/thinkpad-firmware-patches

Chat:
t.me/thinkpadgeneral
discord.gg/Ybdz7AS
##ibmthinkpad on libera
#/tpg/ on rizon

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I was wondering why the WiFi on my x61 wasn't working. Turns out the switch was turned off all along. Couldn't see it because of the ultrabase.

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>Buy thinkpad
>A week later a better deal pops up

Who cares

>realize this general only exists to propagate a meme
>already bought
>the meme laptop works outstanding
thanks Any Forums

Next month I'm going to buy a new laptop, preferably something with an amd 6800u or better, is the thinkpad p16s with the 6850u any good or do I go for something else? It gotta be around 2000€.
It's literally the only laptop with a 6800u sold in spain that I could find, I'd rather not go with an intel 1260/1270p because of the piss poor iGPU they have since I want to do a light gaymen on it.

how much longer will the battery last with a 13xx/7xx resolution compared to 1920/1080

not long enough to make suffering the shit res worth it

>2 months onthe lookout for a good thinkpad deal
>decidetocheck out dell precision models
>find 1 in 5 minutes, better tech and cheaper
Sorry

blame here and reddit

Just finished upgrading my t430 CPU to a quad core one. Now it has 12GB or RAM, 240 GB of SSD, and i7 CPU. What next? Thinking of corebooting it but I might be too retarded to use chip programmer

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Keyboard desu.

bought a thinkpad t460 for 129 dollars. Really nice, im enjoying it. Was given a r40. Ordered 2gb of ram to put in it. It has xp on it now but ill probably just put arch on it and see if a 18 year old thinkpad with ram upgrade can be usable or not

I'm a retard and was able to figure out how to flash coreboot, so there's hope for you yet my dear frogposter.

Got the classic x220 kb on the x230 with flashed coreboot. Comfy

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I was under the impression that Arch dropped support for 32 bit and that R40 has a 32 bit processor.
Try Void out if you want a similar rolling release that supports 32 bit processors. It works nicely on my old thinkpads.

i have an opportunity to buy an x230 for 200 dollars. is that a fair price?

A useful tip for anyone wanting to flash a T420 with custom firmware - it's actually really easy. You don't even need a SOIC-8 test clip.

All you have to do is remove the keyboard, palmrest, screen + lid assembly, then lift the frame + motherboard assembly out of the chassis and flip it around. You don't even have to remove the heatsink, which saves a lot of headache because then you would have to repaste.

These vias (connected to the flash chip as in pic related) are visible on the back side of the motherboard. You can use extremely cheap PCB test connectors, or just solderless/hammer headers (which can then be removed by just yanking them out). Or just solder the wires on and route them out so you can access them without taking anything apart.

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The ballad of /tpg/

Neat, yet extremely convoluted

Hell no, that's like double the price you can find it at.