That's a slightly odd name for a store with only one product. Hope to see more in the future:)
Seems that's the plan - see the "What's planned for the future of ThinkMods?" section on the Indiegogo page.
ThinkPad Mods, Done Right
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#22Does that "51nb" Chinese company still make modded Thinkpads?
I bought their "51nb X62" model Thinkpad a few years back from an eBay user, though unfortunately it eventually died.
It was a motherboard replacement of the old Thinkpad X60 from many years ago. Replacing the old single core CPU with an Intel Broadwell era i5 and up to 32 gigs of memory
You could also install an M.2 SSD in it I believe. Along with USB 3 and other useful new features
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#23Is there really a market for modding a 7+ year old laptop? I know thinkpads used to be great (And some still are), but, I just don't get the point in trying to give more life to something so so old - most likely ~3rd-4th gen intel.
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#24Is there really a market for modding a 7+ year old laptop? I know thinkpads used to be great (And some still are), but, I just don't get the point in trying to give more life to something so so old - most likely ~3rd-4th gen intel.
If it's a ThinkPad? Absolutely. Many people are drowning in outdated ThinkPads, because you can ebay them for often sub-$100 prices.
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#25Why did people buy these? I just have a 2.5" SSD in mine and RAM has always been the bottleneck. A cool project from a technical perspective IMO.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
NVMe is somehow better in random access performance. Also ThinkPads before X240 has no space to accommodate M.2/NVMe as those machines predates the standard. Personally I wish(ed) if there were 2.5” shaped GPU than SSD though
A decent GPU in this format would be awesome! Especially since the X220 series can accomodate a 2.5' SSD as well as an m.2 SATA SSD already.
You can already connect external GPUs thru this interface on the X220.
Re: ThinkPad Mods, Done Right
#27Is there really a market for modding a 7+ year old laptop? I know thinkpads used to be great (And some still are), but, I just don't get the point in trying to give more life to something so so old - most likely ~3rd-4th gen intel.
Apparently there was enough market interest to reach the funding goal in 24 hours.
As a 7 year old Thinkpad user: 4th generation Core is absolutely fine for me. I can get a refurbished and kitted out replacement for some 200 euros. I could upgrade the RAM from 8G to 16G, but in my daily use I've seen no concrete reason to do so yet. SSD is great, though. Maybe I spend a few more minutes compiling software on this machine than I would on a more recent laptop, but I'm not losing sleep over it.
I can see why you'd want something more out of, say, a gaming PC or something you use for resource intensive analysis applications, machine learning etc. but getting a laptop for that seems like a waste of money to me, compared to getting a desktop computer that you can upgrade incrementally.
I'm interested, though. What is it that people do where you feel that your laptop needs to be more powerful than this?
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#28Are all Thinkpads with ExpressCard/54 supported?
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ExpressCard_slot
I have an old X200 laying around and I was thinking of reactivating it, but it's from 2008..
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#29Is there really a market for modding a 7+ year old laptop? I know thinkpads used to be great (And some still are), but, I just don't get the point in trying to give more life to something so so old - most likely ~3rd-4th gen intel.
There is viable market (it has customers). But I would say it is just nostalgia. Some people even say it is not real ThinkPad unless it was made by IBM (pre 2006).
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#30Is there really a market for modding a 7+ year old laptop? I know thinkpads used to be great (And some still are), but, I just don't get the point in trying to give more life to something so so old - most likely ~3rd-4th gen intel.
Most definitely. I am typing this from my modded T430 and its my primary machine. I'm not sure what I will get when it eventually dies, modern laptops really don't compare in terms of general physical strength, 'modability', keyboard, I/O etc