Thread 106218943

I'm never buying lenovo again

>>106218943 (OP)
thats horrifying. fuck everything.

>>106218943 (OP)
Just disassemble the case and tuck it back in.

Good luck mate, in 5 years Lenovo and Dell will be the only OEMs left.

>>106218943 (OP)
The hinge on my Samsung Galaxy Book hasn't failed.

>>106218943 (OP)
>not a thinkpad

>>106218956
>>106218970
i actually appreciate you guys not dogpiling me. My last laptop was from 2015, hp netbook tier pos and even that was more durable. Why the fuck are these things so thin an ethernet port doesn't fit???

>>106218995
Post 2008 thinkpads are chinky garbage. Might as well get a GPD laptop at that point.

>>106218995
well shit nigga you can be sure next time it will be

>>106219003
cope my x230 and t430s are build great

>>106218943 (OP)
My T420 doesn't have this problem.

>>106218943 (OP)
Unfortunately, there's nothing better.

>>106219019
fuck bros im tight on money too
t. neet

>>106219028
You can get t480's for like a 100 dollars on eBay, if you want cheaper fully working t430s are going for 50 dollars

>>106219028
Then you don't need a laptop.

>>106219000
>Why the fuck are these things so thin an ethernet port doesn't fit???
Everything is built so that it looks cool when its brand new, lasting a month is an afterthought. Notably, cars are like this too.

>>106219039
sounds good but
>Battery Life: 5 hours, 30 hours
is it really that low
>>106219067
fucking normies

>>106219074
T480 has an external battery so that means you carry a extra battery for more battery life, also there is a screen upgrade you can do get much better battery life

>>106218943 (OP)
You shouldn't open them from the corners of the lid and you have to pay attention to the hinges creaking and/or getting stiff. They have to be lubricated or replaced. If you ignore it the hinges will rip out the fragile mount points to the screen/lid or base/shell.

They don't make em like they used to.

>>106219028
I bet you're tight in other places too

>>106218943 (OP)
>buy $400 goypad
>get mad when the hinge breaks off from the plastic

>>106219100
faggot

>>106219083
you know what, i dont think it will be too much of an inconvenience
>>106219094
i saw this coming but i thought i had at least one more year
>>106219100
stay away

also why is a core i5 clocked at 1.60 ghz?

>>106218943 (OP)
Never seen this happen on a Framework laptop.

>>106219133
ya cause you never see anyone with a framework laptop

>>106218943 (OP)
>yoga
Now im just curious how you even did this with a 360° hinge, was it closed with something inside still?

what's up with all these 768p screens on thinpads?
>>106219106
$494, msrp was 700 or so
>>106219151
not yoga, ideapad flex 5 and all i did was push the lid back, it's not my fault
>>106219148
kek

>>106219161
>ideapad
yeah I'm thinking it is your fault

>>106219161
>what's up with all these 768p screens on thinpads?
My T14 has 2560x1600 120hz 500 nit DCI-P3, maybe don't buy laptops that are not actually thinkpads you retarded poorfag.

>>106219148
You a coping poorfag, I prefer using my Framework 13 over my T14 G5.

>>106219074
>is it really that low
No, it's a lot lower in practice. I'm lucky to get 2 hours while idle. Just plug it in, it's not a big deal.

>>106219003
My T14s G3 is top tier build quality. Feels 100x better in every way than even my T440p.

>>106219161
>ideapad flex 5
Cheap consumer garbage designed to last just long enough for the warranty to end. Buy a thinkpad.

>>106219045
Yeah, why the hell does a neet need a laptop? I have mine stored away and just use it to fail job interviews.

>>106219367
look i am productive sometimes
>>106219288
they are thinkpad tho
>>106219323
k
>>106219367
fuck those interviews

Anything Lenovo that isn't thinkpad even the shit tier E-waste series is absolutely horrible quality wise.

>>106218943 (OP)
let me guess you open/close the lid from the corners? kek my dad broke 3 of his work laptops like this so I know that you should never open or close a laptop's lid from the corners, no matter the brand.

>>106219410
not always. fuckers could have told me that though, but it would probably make them look stupid

>>106218943 (OP)
skill issue.

Never seen that happen on a MacBook.

>>106219390
You obviously do not own any thinkpad less than 7 years old
There's fuck all difference between the T and E series anymore

>>106219462
I own a newer (2022 & 2023) E and P, no T so that's probably why.

>>106219484
T series have been in a steady decline after the T480, while E series has mostly stayed the same.
Es aren't a terrible idea if you don't want to buy used, they're still better than 99% of other consumer laptops, while the T series is basically just coasting on reputation, nowadays you're paying a huge markup for essentially the same product.

>>106219510
It's about market segmentation, not actual design differences in a lot of cases. Sometimes they do skimp on the CFRP and go full plastic but I think they've done away with the magnesium rollcage on almost all of them.

>>106219477
These are the people who bring laptops in for repair saying it just randomly cracked.

>>106218943 (OP)
I had that same shit happen with every HP laptop I ever bought. I was also returning one once and some woman that came by just as I was leaving was talking to a guy on the sales floor about the same issue on her HP.

>>106219941
what e-waste

>>106218943 (OP)
i've seen this happen on a lot of asus laptops too
modern laptops are junk

>>106219791
>but I think they've done away with the magnesium rollcage on almost all of them.
They still keep it on P16. /tpg/ favorite T480 doesn't have it too.

>>106219913
I want to know what is wrong with these people anon

>>106219477
This stupid fucking dumb idiot bitch deserved everything that happened to her.
God I hate stupid women so much.

>>106220091
They're stupid and don't want to admit it.

>>106218943 (OP)
Of course this happens more often to all modern laptop that are getting thinner, where the mounting screw holes are less than 5mm deep. The insufficient plastic sleeves holding the screw treads develops fatigue induced micro cracks eventually from the repeated torque of lifting and closing the screen hinges until they fail.

>>106220262
not an issue on modern macbooks

>>106218943 (OP)
>plastic body

>>106220296
>not an issue on overpriced, underpowered itoddler ecosystem device
congrats I guess?

>>106220262
manufacturers r dumb

>>106220296
are those still occasionally sending 19V down the data lines?

>>106220536
>underpowered
faster than your thinkpad

>>106220676
They aren't, most consumers use their products wrong, contributing to premature wear of mechanical components
Next time you open a laptop or witness some doing it notice how almost nobody does it properly

>>106220731
>father goes through laptops every few months
>my mother tells me its because he keeps opening it from the corners
>still hasn't learned not to and blames the laptops
>annual laptop budget for my dad is $1500 since he keeps going through 2 or 3 per year

>>106220676
The consumers share the blame as well when thicker laptops aren't moving off shelves. Remember when USB Wifi dongles came with an extension and a stand so you get better reception by placing the dongle on top of the case? Consumers choose the dongle that's a dollar less which doesn't come with the stand. Now all wifi dongles don't come with stands.

>>106219074
>>106219323
I bought a new extended battery for my T480 and the battery lasts the whole day now. Right now it's 89% and estimates 12h 02min left. Only cost me 55 euros too.

>>106218943 (OP)
>ideapad
dude

>>106218943 (OP)
the worst lenovo did in muh Thinkpads T series gen4 and up is using low temp solder, where they solder it at temperatures dangerously close to maximum temperatures computer can get (100°C) and low temp solder is 130°C.

Let me guess, my T14 gen4 wont last as long as my T430 which still works perfectly after all kind of abuse...

Just rebuild it like I rebuild my dotfile configs every other day on my Thinkpad running Arch btw

>>106218943 (OP)
>buying computers with backdoors built-in onto the chip that sends everything you're doing back to Chinese military servers

>>106220757
So he goes through 3x $500 craptops instead of one $1500 that will last at least 5x years?

>>106220676
It's planned obsolescense.

>>106222051
buy the low power igzo display and you will see more than one day in idle

picrel

>>106222932
Buying shitty craptops has the advantage of going through 3 different batteries instead.
Business laptop sellers supply spare parts but batteries are the first that go out of stock.

>>106219003
I had an X1 Carbon last from 2015 to 2021. Since then I've been running a T14 and it's going strong too. I like that it's little thicker. It feels like they didn't have to compromise on sturdiness to be as thin as possible.

modern laptops all tend to do this honestly, either look for one made from metal or take it apart while you can and loosen the hinges, this will also allow one hand opening without the laptop flipping backwards which a lot of laptops are terrible at
or use a desktop
>>106222918
low temp solder is expensive, old stuff uses a 63/37 alloy and newer stuff uses lead free solder because of rohs
you're probably thinking about how lead free solder is more fragile, but it actually melts at higher temperatures than leaded
fun fact: lead free solder grows hairs and nobody knows why, but leaded solder stops this
other fun fact: because it's more fragile, switching back to lead free solder caused electronic devices to break from heating and cooling down, if you had an xbox 360, ps3 or a gpu from the time that needed to be heated to work again for a while you can thank the european union

>>106218943 (OP)
I bought a Lenovo legion slim and have been very happy with it

This happened to my Dell a year ago, I kept using it since it was working and I don't really take it outside, and now the screen is broken as well because of it
Just neat, really.