At work I got a boxful of HP Elitebook 8760w laptops for me to dismantle and recycle.

I took one in my hand and then it just hit me. This laptop was fucking awesome. It screamed quality and performance. It was built better than anything I could find in today's world.
It really bothers me I couldn't take one for personal use.

Can you recommend hidden gems of the laptop world? I mean powerhouses built in the 2010s that are both cheap but give you better bang for your buck than any new Thinkpad could.

>>105850230 (OP)
That laptop looks like a workout and/or back pain. I can't understand how I was carrying daily my 5kg laptop back in early 2000s

>>105850255
Thin laptops were a mistake. They cant be repaired because of that

>>105850230 (OP)
Fujitsu business laptops

I too would like a rugged laptop with user replaceable parts and optimally a disc drive

>>105850230 (OP)
The realization comes at you hard. This is why my laptops are just an endless succession of Dell Latitudes.
They're also as common as mud (just like Optiplexes on the desktop), so spare parts, or even outright replacements, and cheap as shit.

>>105850230 (OP)
>HP Elitebook 8760w
>2011
so many laptop brands were kino before 2011 and became "modern" after

>>105850564
2011 was the last year you could buy a macbook with a disc drive and ethernet port.
2011 was the last year you could buy a thinkpad with the 7row keyboard.
HP and Dell started making (some) of their laptops plastic chiclet "modern" trash as early as 2003 (which was the last good year for compaq laptops before hp took over) but their more expensive models stayed decent until, again, around 2011.

I have an HP Elitebook 8740w
I think it's like a weaker version of OP's laptop?
Anyway that thing has all the ports you could imagine (except for HDMI, it has DP). What really tops it off is that is has an integrated Blu-ray drive.
I cant fucking believe a laptop has a Blu-ray drive. In 2010.

>>105850255
>>105850301

Modern 5 millimeter thick laptops are nice to carry around and everything, but if there's ever a problem with it, you will start to hate it.
I had a thin Alienware laptop and there was some issue with it. Opened it up and realized it's just one single motherboard with all the parts soldered straight onto it. You couldnt do a thing to it, except buy another motherboard that costs more than the device itself.
I was disgusted.

>>105850230 (OP)
I love my enterprise laptops as much as the next anon but let's not kid ourselves, any lappy with an intel chip prior to 8th gen is 2 core dogshit.

>>105851264
blu-ray drive without libredrive is straight up useless though.
at least it's still functional as a DVD drive.

>buy a few of the same business laptops when they're $50 at some clearance shop
>run around and beat on it and it endures
>swap hard drives into another one when it suffers some critical failure
I'm not running out of T480 anytime soon, there's easily a half dozen somewhere in my house.

>>105853049
I have a T480 (which I'm typing on now) and an A485 (the AMD equivalent) and I love both
>>105850721
>2011 was the last year you could buy a thinkpad with the 7row keyboard
not true. the T25 released in 2017

>>105852519
Quadcore QM/XM IvyBridges and Haswells are still usable, altough I gave up on my modded T420 this year as 16GB RAM is just too little these days, power wise it was still fast enough.

>>105853245
>WHRRRRRRRRRRRR
>85 ℃

>>105853779
surprisingly W510 with the 1.6GHz quadcore (forgot what was the CPU model name) doesnt go past 75 degrees DESPITE it having also Nvidia Quadro GPU

(the CPU does NOT have Intel GPU so laptop must have Nvidia or ATI GPU and on this case only Nvidia is available)

that being said on the same laptop model there is also 2GHz quadcore option which is bonkers because it will go to 98 degrees and crash

but the 1.6GHz works wonders

these CPUs were the first quad core CPUs ever, for laptop, its based in Nehalem core