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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)

By posting you denounce anime

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

I'm trying to get an X1C 6-9 but I keep losing out on everything on ebay. What's a realistic price target I should be aiming for? Aiming for an i7, 16gb ram with min 512gb drive (but will probably swap anyway)

>actual thread >>106198321
actual thread >>106198321
>actual thread >>106198321
actual thread >>106198321
post there

>looking for some decent T14 G2 with ryzen 5/7
>suddenly stumbled upon this bloke who sells P52 with NVIDIA P3200 Q for 140 stinky bucks
not a fan of bulky laptop, but... fuck it I'm in

>>106198299 (OP)
>Worms
Thought that was a new BIOS splash image for a second. It's been a while since one has been added...

Funny how new-ni/g/gers are seething at the inclusion of anime--on 4chan of all places--when most of the entries in the booru are anime related. It's like the OP(s) of the anti-anime threads didn't even bother looking through the resources.

Also, you're an honorary nigger yourself for hasting through creating a thread and copy-pasting the OP of the previous one without reading it over. FAGGOT!

This general is better off dead desu (both of them), you guys are all retarded faggots from the third-world.

This is the thread

>>106198819
one of the most over engineered design, but the most beatiful so far

What thinkpads have
>m2 2280 slot
>both RAM slots not soldered
>WiFi card not soldered
>battery replaceable (don't care too much if it's not external)

>>106198333
Shouldn't you approve this anyway because the OP doesn't do proofreading?

>>106199141
No current ones outside of E series. L14/L15 G2 was the last one afaik.

Should I buy a T490 to replace my Surface Laptop 1 or will it be obsolete in a few years?

Get a T14 G2, sell your old surface laptop.

>>106198562
The people still buying moddable Thinkpads are capable of following thorough documentation elsewhere. All that's left in /tpg/ are repeated /sqt/ tier questions and people that miss the point and are asking what current gen Thinkpad to buy at full retail.

What's the model that can, today, be considered what the T440p was in 2019~2020?

which one should i get bros ?

P51: i7-7700HQ, Nvidia Quadro M1200 4GB, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD. [$270]
or
P52: i7-8850H, Nvidia Quadro P1000 4GB, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD. [$350]

i have a bunch of RAM stick laying around so i can upgrade the RAM myself and ill install a 1TB HDD to store files in

>>106202433
T480? Good specs, sturdy body, about all that's comparable. T540p and T440p are not obsolete, they run Windows 10 and 11 just fine, but if you are running 4GB RAM for whatever inane reason, it's time to move up to 8GB. 16GB or more if you are a thousand-tab autist.
It just works.™
These are the oldest machines that can even take an m.2 SSD without an adapter for the 2.5" bay.

>>106198299 (OP)
Always used 15.6/16 inch laptops. Will i regret getting 14? 1080p.

>>106202605
I didn't feel a thing going from a T510 to a T470 but ymmv

So I need to sell some stuff because I'm very short on money and highly in debt.
I'm thinking about selling my macbook Air M1 2021 with 8gb of ram and 256gb of storage. However I still need a laptop.
Of course the only laptops I trust are thinkpads and I've been wanting to go back to daily driving a Thinkpad for a while now. I've been thinking about getting an AMD T14 or T14s. Do you guys think, comparing the unified memory and the M1 chip, I would experience worse performance in the T14? How about battery life? Pretty much the most important reason I got the M1 in the first place is the amazing battery life.
I suck at benchmarking and I don't understand most of what those numbers even imply. So thanks a lot for helping me out with this.

>>106202605
16:10 made it less noticeable for me.
Certainly won't miss the off-center keyboard.

>>106203282
Yes, ready yourself for a shitty dim panel and an ok-ish battery life.

>>106202462
Only three reasons to prefer P51 over P52
>poor
>autism about key width
>autism about mechanical dock
If you plan to eg run VMs or use Gentoo the P52 is clearly better with its two extra cores

I was looking pads for Unreal 5 and other gamedev stuff, T480 looks promising but I just want to make sure

Found this listing for supposedly a 'Lenovo ThinkPad P15 Gen 2' (obviously fucking not), but still unsure what fucking model it is. My guess at first was a P1 Gen 4 but it doesn't have the speaker grates on the sides of the keyboard. Any clues from pic related? Seller doesn't give much besides stating its i7-11850H and a T1200.

>>106205429
get second-hand p15 gen 2 with decent or buy ram and ssd

>>106198299 (OP)
assuming I do need the performance, is there any point getting a brand new modern ThinkPad rather than a Macbook?
besides upgradability (which is very strong point), it feels like the thinkpad is basically outdated and outdone in most aspects

>>106206723
Have you not notice everyone is buying 5-20 years old abandoned laptops?
Nobody wants a brand new Thinkpad here too.

>>106204534
i plan on using it for general computer science stuff and 3D animating with abit of gaming for more less 5 years. guess ill get the P52 then

fellas, just wanted to thank you for making me fall for the Thinkpad meme. best laptop that i've ever had so far (W530)