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Don't buy anything OTHER THAN IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad T, X, and W/P Series (especially X230, T440p and T480, those are the best pads for bucks) 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
>Trackpoint (why the fuck wasn't this in the general before? that's the only reason to get a thinkpad in 2025 honestly)

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

Model generations:
>Classic IBM: T40, T41, T42
>IBM/Lenovo Transition: T43, T60, T61 (T42 - T43: significant difference in specs)
>"Classic" Lenovo: T400, T410, T420 (T61 - T400: 4:3 to 16:10)
>Transition to old modern: T430, T440, T450 (T420 - T430: membrane to chiclet)
>Old modern: T460, T470, T480 (T450 - T460: significantly less thick)
>New modern: T490, T14g1, T14g2 (T480 - T490: design change)
>New new modern: T14g3, T14g4, ... (T14g2 - T14g3: second design change)

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BIOS replacement:
https://coreboot.org/downloads.html
https://libreboot.org/docs/install/
https://canoeboot.org/docs/install/

Additional resources:
https://dankpads.com/tpg/
https://biosimage.booru.org
https://1vyra.in

Patches:
https://github.com/digmorepaka/thinkpad-firmware-patches
https://github.com/hamishcoleman/thinkpad-ec

Chat:
##ibmthinkpad on libera
#/tpg/ on rizon

>>106159653 (OP)
should've gone with xbox op

>>106159653 (OP)
Is it worth paying 110 EUR extra fora 100% sRGB screen ? I don't do graphics stuff, just game a little sometimes.

>>106159818
if you don't do anything graphics related then no, save the money

>>106159818
you can't put a genie back in the bottle. That's all.

bump

This general is dead, stop making it.

>>106159653 (OP)
>By posting you denounce anime
Wrong board, MF!!

>>106160346

Whats do you goons think about t14s 7840u with soldered ram. Is it worth it ? I can get it for 1k eur or E series aluminium with better screen for 900 eur.

>>106160366
go with the Intel one

>>106160358
Back you go

>>106160372
There is no option to get T14 gen 4 intel, i would have to go gen 5, but its outside my budget.
Also Intel cpus are so fucking confusing even more so than AMD. 125h 125u, 100, 133, 155, 225h. At least with AMD i can find info about IGPU online, but there is almost no data on intel igpus for those cpus.

>>106160372
>go with the Intel one
if you want to set the laptop on fire, sure take intel

How to make sure bios is not locked on used thinkpad? Will BIOS be fully locked or just some options? I want to ask seller for screenshot of BIOS menu.

>>106160483
just ask the BIOS pic taken from a camera? also ask them to wipe the SSD completely while you're on it

>>106160346
REAL THREAD
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>>106160512
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>>106160516
Why are you people like this?