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 No.13935

I'm looking at getting a thinkpad (pref a cyb looking one, not one of the new shitty looking ones.)
What's the one to get, I have a budget of about £200 and I'm only going to use it for programming and anime.
Cheers.
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 No.13936

W520

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 No.13939

>>13935
If you want portable get an x201 with a 9 cell battery.
Really good value for about $150.
If you don't want a super portable laptop, get a t400.

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 No.13941

I would suggest a T420. I sold a batch of 20 of them for $150 a pop, and they had the 1600x900 screens and 120GB SSDs, so they are definitely attainable for your price, they have good GNU/Linux support, and if you get a new 9cell battery, you can expect around 8 hours batter on one.

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 No.13944

>>13935
T410 has nice aspect ratio screen.
T420 is really hackable
(I dewhitelisted in BIOS to use an atheros wifi chip, and I have the t430 keyboard on mine, soon I will be putting in the w520 quad core CPU.)

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 No.13945

Be wary that lots of think pads come with intel wireless cards which have proprietary firmware. I only say this because some operating systems like openbsd can't be distributed with the intel drivers.

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 No.13946

>>13939
I like the look of the x201 with the 9 cell.

>>13944
The amount of stuff that I can hack on the T420 is interesting too.

>>13945
Thanks. I've only ever had one laptop and it was a newish Toshiba Satellite but I'm replacing it cause the build quality is absolute shite. It looks like a child's toy. But that Toshiba had the same problem so I always have a memory pen with most of the proprietary drivers that I need on it.

Also, this is the most comfy imageboard I've ever been on. Anywhere else would have told me to fuarrrk off if I asked a similar question.

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 No.13947

>>13946
no problem anon we all use Thinkpads or MacBooks generally. The site Admin has both. welcome to comfychan.


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 No.13950

Qubes devs use T420[s]. Both and a few other Thinkpads are all green on their compatibility table:
https://www.qubes-os.org/hcl/

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 No.13964

An older model from IBM, pre-2010.

I say pre-2010 because post-2010 is when Intel began adding their shady bull soykaf into their CPU's and other things.

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 No.13965

Don't get a t410 over other Thinkpads. soykaf battery life. Got a 9 cell and a slice in it and max out at 6 hours.

T420 is your best bet bud.

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 No.13968

>>13939
>>13935
I second that, got a after-leasing nearly mint one for less than $150. It's portable, somewhat durable (in comparison to X230 I guess), has a good keyboard and nice processing power. Buy an extended battery though, the flat one probably is like kicking dead whales down the beach . Use a lightweight distro as well, with WiFi turned off you can get ~7h on battery.

I heard good things about T420, but I need portability, so here you go.

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 No.13970

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OP here. I've narrowed it down to a choice between an x201 or a T420.
Probably going to go with the x201 as I would really like it to be super portable, but I don't want one of those stupid tablet 2 in 1s as I need it to do actual work.

Thanks for the help!

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 No.13971

>>13970
Also, Whilst the threads up.
What's some cool soykaf (hacks / mods) I can do to the X201? I've already got a 500gb ssd (with one of those adapter things so it fits) and 2x4gb DDR3 sticks on the way.

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 No.13976

>>13971
Threads tend to stick around here for a while, so don't worry about things 404ing very quickly.

That bieng said, I have seen a whole load of buzz around new FHD and 4k screens for T420/T420s machines, and some of that buzz might trickle down into the development of HD screens for the X201, which it desperately needs.

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 No.13977

This is the best guide to buying used ThinkPads I know. It has lots of useful information on specific models and series and the recommended prices are always kept up-to-date. I'm genuinely surprised no one has posted it yet.

http://ktgee.net/post/49423737148/thinkpad-guide

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 No.13986

>>13970
I own a x201 myself. I use it as my main computer. For the money I doubt I could have done any better than this.
I bought a t410 for my dad. It's nice too. But for portability x201 is the winner.

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 No.13987

I got a t410 on ebay for £90 and I have no complaints. Can someone explain what makes the t420 more hackable?

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 No.14003

What do you guys think of those refurbished x200/T400s that already have libreboot pre-installed?

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 No.14014

>>14003
expensive and old

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 No.14021

>>13970
I use an x200 as my school computer, I got it for $35 from my university's surplus store and I put an ssd and GNU/Linux on it.

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 No.14022

>>14003
I recently bought a x200. I love the hardware but I am having difficulty flashing libreboot myself. If you are not practised in such things I would recommend getting libreboot pre-installed. You don't want to be stuck with the Lenovo bios' wifi module whitelist

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 No.14032

>>13935
I just got an L440 and it's the best laptop I've ever had.

Then again I've never used a different thinkpad.

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 No.14055

I've ended up deciding on the x220. Thoughts? I really like the hardware and the IPS screen, however there is another version of the x220 on ebay that only has the little read mouse clit and a l/r click. I might get that just to check it out, the guy has a 30 day returns policy (and I've bought off him before) so I'm not losing any money if its soykaf .

Also what's the deal with the wifi whitelist? why is it bad? I have literally no idea what it is...

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 No.14056

>>14055
It makes you use only certain WiFi cards ie. if you break your card, you must buy a whitelisted one or your laptop will refuse to boot.

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 No.14066

>>14056
Cheers, That's a bit soykaf . I think I can probably flash libreboot, but I don't want to risk bricking it just yet.


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