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We moved onto L390 Yogas afterwards, which takes up to 32GB of RAM - I've been very happy with mine.
Both have been pretty solid for me, though I think the X220 probably had a lot more rough treatment overall.
We used to use refurbed Thinkpad X220s for all engineers in the business - cheap, widely available, capable enough and with a docking station to use as a desktop. They'd take 16GB of RAM, though the official spec said the maximum was 8GB. We moved onto L390 Yogas afterwards, which takes up to 32GB of RAM - I've been very happy with mine. Both have been pretty solid for me, though I think the X220 probably had a lot m…
I've not tried that myself yet, though!
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I think that advice depends on whether you're looking for "a laptop" or "a project" :) I'm a massive thinkpad fan, as per sibling comments I have half a dozen in the room with me right now, but have never and don't plan to ever replace a screen. My time and hassle are worth more than $0-$30 I'd pay for one that already comes with higher res, and the risk / pain / fidgetiness is outside of my own personal threshold. N…
lol what? I can replace the screen in under 15 minutes.
1. Awareness that not everybody can or wants or dares to do that or be you. There's other people in this world! :)
2. LoL-ing other people for not being you
Entirely you choice! :)
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e.g. I can change tires and oil on my car and am aware that majority of people can't or don't want to - even handy, technically oriented ones.
There's simply a vast, vast majority of people to whom:
1. I'd happily recommend a ThinkPad because I think it'll serve a wide swath of people well
2. I would not come anywhere near suggesting they replace their screen; not only would that likely lead to disaster, but it'd 99% turn them off from considering ThinkPad in the first place.
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ah well funny, the only dell studio i saw couldn't operate more than 6 months without requiring surgery (motherboard, dvd drive, keyboard)
and the first thinkpad I bought died 2 days after the warranty expired
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I recommend getting the X230 over the X220, if anyone decides to play with these old Thinkpads. I have both machines, and I found heat dissipation has been significantly reduced on the X230 for otherwise the same performance, thanks to Ivy Bridge's die shrink over Sandy Bridge. Most components from both machines are interchangeable with the exception of their bottom covers and motherboards (an EC firmware hack is ava…
The only weak point of the x230 was the stock TN display was absolutely awful. I swapped it for an IPS. One day I dropped it about a foot onto a carpet floor, and the metal chassis accordioned and bent in the corner. Was not impressed by that.
This is another Thinkpad festival post? Let me just cold you down a bit by telling you that a 12-year-old laptop still kicking isn't that big of a deal. I have this DELL Studio laptop released back in September, 2009, and it can still kick very well too if I decide to recruit it back to my "workforce". I retired it just 3~4 years ago because I got a T480. Heck, some of my code (old versions) for the same project that…
Excuse me sir, you are interrupting our Thinkpad circletrek, begone with your Dell heresy. I absolutely love my cute little Thinkpad X230T, but finding a battery for that fits the T variant is a pain in the butt in my country, I tried like a 6-7 in the shop but they were all old and dead, very little market for them so they stayed unused and died out, I am limping along on my 15-minute battery for now. I believe Leno…
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This. It seems to me that nowadays, you can either have a well-behaved older machine or a Ryzen-equipped mobile powerhorse that will glitch every now and then. Unfortunately for me, recent AMD's offerings have greatly decreased the attractiveness of older laptops. But be warned, you gotta take the good with the bad and accept that a modern laptop might wake up at any time (even when stored in your bag).
I could perhaps tolerate the wakeup, but it should notice it's in the backpack with a lid closed sensor and a thermometer and maybe go to sleep again instead of trying to melt itself and set the car or house on fire? Just throwing out this million-dollar idea for free here.
The irony is that an Android tablet---about as smartphone-like as you can get with a laptop-sized display---never has heating problems while sleeping.
I have such a laptop, but it doesn't survive update to Windows 11. Installing Windows 11 on old Thinkpad makes it go slow . Luckily, there is Windows 10 LTSC bought from dubious serial code reseller. (OK, they possiblly pirate it, but.... Windows 10 LTSC is so good I recommend it to everyone. And MSFT won't sell it to me legally...) edit: oh, this guy uses Ubuntu. I don't have nerves for Linux.
Windows 11 is horribl.e My exit plan is to move to windows 10 LTSC. I have some MSDN keys. I'll worry about that one day in the future though. I just exited the Apple ecosystem so I'm still getting my stuff together. I also don't have the nerves for Linux. I want the computer to be a thing to solve problems not a thing to cause problems to solve :)
That is only true of Linux for specific things like gaming, or if you cannot resist the temptation to try stuff and tinker.
Even having moved to a relatively unstable/problematic Linux distro (Manjaro) do not find myself spending any more time solving problems than when I used Windows (which as a long time ago, so not applicable to current Windows).
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Windows 11 is horribl.e My exit plan is to move to windows 10 LTSC. I have some MSDN keys. I'll worry about that one day in the future though. I just exited the Apple ecosystem so I'm still getting my stuff together. I also don't have the nerves for Linux. I want the computer to be a thing to solve problems not a thing to cause problems to solve :)
> I also don't have the nerves for Linux. I want the computer to be a thing to solve problems not a thing to cause problems to solve :) That is only true of Linux for specific things like gaming, or if you cannot resist the temptation to try stuff and tinker. Even having moved to a relatively unstable/problematic Linux distro (Manjaro) do not find myself spending any more time solving problems than when I used Window…