Thread 518819331

People will scramble for older more repairable ones. Same with cars, most of the electronic parts of modern cars are made in China.

Trash economy will rule for a while.

>>518819331 (OP)
You know a nice thinkpad can always be had for under $150

>>518819331 (OP)
A tariff just flew over my house!

a $30 phone at walmart does 90% of what a laptop does

>*****spends 3 1/2 decades autodidactly coding a dvd splash screen
lol lmao

>>518819417
I paid $50 or a cherry unused-looking T42p a few years ago. Now they are a couple hundred bucks. Also ditto for the older Thinkpads of the higher end models, which have real built-in Sound Blasters. 3xx and 5xx series.

>>518819542
A nigger will never know the difference between a stick and a tractor for agriculture either.

>>518819331 (OP)
all aftermarket car parts are made in china. good luck repairing anything or building anything.

>>518819542
Yep. The moto g play is a very very solid phone.

>>518819542
Buy a Bluetooth keyboard and use a Google word processor and boom you have a laptop

>>518819331 (OP)
if you don't have a desktop computer by now you are a nigger anyways.

>>518819542
You actually believe this?
Really?

>>518819331 (OP)
>Same with cars
Do you have any idea how much it costs to repair a modern (last 5 years) vehicle?

>>518819666
We have FPGA now, we can clone any chip. Chinks don't even make FPGAs.

>>518819331 (OP)
I bought last years MacBook Air, built a new desktop last year and my car is a 2 year old Honda with 5000 miles.

Plenty of good condition older laptops on ebay or facebook marketplace, just don't buy from a non-white, and slap Linux on it. Ready to roll for the next 5+ years.

>>518819331 (OP)
annd then superior products will be built in this country again, the economy will jumpstart like a bastard and chinkyland will be what it was, eighty years ago.

>>518819417
My stack of thinkpads will finally pay off.

>>518819603
Nice. I have a T42 and a T43p

>>518819542
Anyone who does all of their shit on a phone is low IQ.

>>518819603
You're talking about caveman era laptops. A cheap smartphone is better at literally everything

>>518819780
I use my phone as a PC replacement all the time. Fuck carrying all that shit around.
https://www.samsung.com/us/apps/dex/

>>518819331 (OP)
>America
Nobody cares.

>>518819331 (OP)
That's why I bought a brand new one beginning of this year during a sale.
Worth every penny and I've already saved a bundle.

>>518820017
I want a T22 because it's the last official Thinkpad to include a real Sound Blaster. It also works with the docking station that can accept up to 2 PCI expansion cards. Which I have. But no T22, I want a nice one and cheap and haven't pulled the trigger yet.

>>518820417
I serviced a fleet of T23s 20+ years ago and they were great systems. Could handle XP but really were at their best running Win 2K Pro
These days they're probably best running 98SE

>>518819331 (OP)
I've been looking at new laptops and prices are through the roof. Basic entry-level machines are double what they should be and then the entire pricing scale continues from that new bottom. If I wanna get a new Thinkpad that's decent I gotta spend $1,200-1,500.

>>518819331 (OP)
does that mean they'll become cheaper here, since china will have to redirect its exports somewhere? would be kino

>>518819331 (OP)
>Have you thought about how expensive laptops will become once the tariffs hit?
Yes, that is why I've invested in airlines. See, when the laptop tarriff goes to 300%, it's gonna be cheaper to just buy a plane ticket, go buy one in Asia, and bring it home with you. Airfare plus laptop will cost less than laptop, and you will get to be a sexpat for a week.
Airline stocks are currently in the dumpster thanks to Boeings exploding every three days. But that's not gonna stop you when you NEED that laptop for work and play, is it?

>>518820614
I would run Linux and use WINE, it's literally 25%+ faster than using Windows these days.

Dual boot to DOS.

>>518820731
Of course BRICS nations will see a flood of Chinese stuff. But you don't want some gay Chinese laptop. You want a nice old Thinkpad, trust me.

I'm typing this on my T520 which I hope to keep forever and I have three more like it should it be destroyed or lost.

>>518819331 (OP)
I work for one of the biggest companies in the usa, we have been getting ass blasted by not having access to laptops. We use em for everything and now there is a giant months long wait list to get some from the supply warehouse that everyone in the company uses. If we get through the Christmas rush with no problem, it should be fine. But idk bunch of people who I wouldn't trust with a calculator use em so we will see

>>518820863
They will tariff it. I knew some hues back in the day and they are masters at avoiding tariffs. They would buy my buddy a new computer for his business, which he would use for a month, then sell on as used to his cousin. Who worked at the Pentel pencil factory! Anyway they kept this up for years which always meant my buddy had hyper expensive new shit even SGIs. He didn't use them in business, just helped out his cousin. So I got to play with a huge amount of high end machines. One day back in like 1990 or some shit he had a dozen new Mac IIfx's complete with dual monitor setups, one big B&W one and a smaller color one. We played Bolo on that shit.

>>518820953
they are going to triple in price across the board lol

>>518821138
Well expect to start paying luxury soup prices if thats true

>>518821224
Food prices will actually drop without China buying half our beef and eggs and beans.

>>518820640
Build quality of Thinkpads has really dropped down over the past decade. They're not terrible but they're a far cry from where they were in, say, the Windows 7 era. They're riding on legacy clout the same way German automakers do.
I've been a Thinkpad autist for decades and I think my T14 G3 will be my last. Staggering number of motherboard failures, soldered RAM, lots of odd power management issues. May as well be an ASUS.

>>518819331 (OP)
Thinkpads are a fucking meme popularized by autistic incels on these forums, much low how Linux is touted as the "superior" OS
There is quite literally zero reason to fucking buy one.

>>518820872
I'm literally posting from a gay chinese laptop right now, msi gt63 titan

>>518821621
MSI is actually Taiwanese.

OP I just want you to know that I'm putting a small amount of mental energy into willing you to get cancer somehow. This may do nothing, or it may backfire, but it should concern you that someone out there is at least attempting such a thing, even if you think it's not effective. Think before you post next time.

>>518819331 (OP)
>modern cars
this is where you fucked up
pic related

>>518819854
Can an FPGA emulate a carburetor for a 20 year old lawn tractor?

>>518821370
There was a reason back in the day, the firmware was figured out where you could get around blocks of installing non Lenovo cards, pretty easy Hackintosh install, could run windows server when vista was shit, etc. Now they’re just the same as every other business laptop.

>>518819331 (OP)
Everything since 2020 has been a trash economy.
I would rather buy mine used.

>>518821674
so no head?

>>518821795
Any machine shop can "emulate" it. If you're clever though you do what I did and get a Unimat One which works brass just fine and start making replacement parts for shit out of brass. Brass can even be used as the frame / receiver for a firearm and it's legal to make your own guns as long as you don't transfer them.

>>518821897
Back in like 2010 I tried to buy a corkscrew but they were all either made of plastic or pot metal. I went to the Goodwill a few times and found a gigantic French one made of chromed brass for $2. It will last a thousand years.

>>518821897
>Back in like 2010 I tried to buy a corkscrew but they were all either made of plastic or pot metal.
Be thankful we live under a Free Market Economy or your only choice would be stainless steel.
Honestly, I hope things get so bad that locally manufactured quality goods makes a comeback.
A majority of the kitchenware my grandparents had was made within 100 miles and lasted until someone threw it out for looking outdated.
Still have the cast iron skillets.

>>518821278
You think those laptop premiums aren't getting passed down? What a dreamer you are

>>518819331 (OP)
They've been specifically exempting laptops because Apple stock would tank and they're like 10% of the entire market

>>518822531
Increasing price means decreasing sales, there is an optimum price for any commodity like coffee or laptops which balances profit per unit and sales volume.

Tariffs always lead to people tightening their belts, they buy less. Especially less of the shit China makes of which none is essential. You have a woman't view of tariffs, you will buy as much of whatever you did before price be damned. That's not how it works.

>>518821341
No, what happened was Lenovo began offering a lineup of cheap laptops with the Thinkpad name for marketing reasons. If you spend the money on something decent like an X1 Carbon you still get a VERY well built laptop.

>>518819780
most people just browse the internet and look at emails anon

>>518822795
Bro like I said this company is work for has to have these laptop, they will pay for them and the price will get passed down to you, they have already paid they will do it. You have a child's view of this, im assuming you dont have a job because your view is purely consumer