r/thinkpad

almost 20 years ago

Its an IBM thinkpad R40! Im gonna try to put arch32

Looks like nice machine to maybe put old games onto?

I thought the arasaka sticker would be smaller🤷‍♂️

ryzen 5 5500U , 8 ram (i'll upgrade to 16ram) , 256ssd

I think I'm gonna change the battery and a screen in the future, MAYBE motherboard for the i7 but the only time will tell

Another T480 i5 16GB with there big brothers T480 i7 32GB and T14 gen 1 32GB

Sorry for picture being so dark, I finished assembling it at late at night.

A little bit of a story:
I bought a W541 from an auction for roughly 325PLN (~87$). In the listing the seller said that it had some "bug" that prevented main display from working. Figured I can take a look.

Previous owner apparently attempted to fix a broken screen with a new 3K Panel but probably didn't disconnect it from power and had blown the F11 fuse that was . Brough to a repair guy who replaced the fuse for 100PLN (27$). In the action the seller said that it had some "bug" that prevent main display from working. Figured I can take a look

There apparently was another hurdle. The screen panel it came with (defenitely not the original one it had) was also broken. Yraces were exposed on the bottom-left corner. Had to replace it myselft with a new FHD panel and cable - 235PLN (~63$). 3K panels were too expensive and I wanted this to work. Thankfully that I can repalce myself.

Side note: There was A LOT of hot glue on the inside holding parts of together. Not sure who did that but I hate you.

Summary: a lot of screen related stuff was broken but I manged to repair it well enough 👍
Overall cost: 660PLN (~177$)
Specs:
CPU - i7-4810MQ
GPU1 - Intel HD Graphics 4600
GPU2 - NVIDIA Quadro K2100M
RAM - 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3L-1600MHz
Memory - 512GB SATA SSD

arduino arc

I got it mainly for school and it's felt great but every once in awhile when I open it, the hinge Creeks in a very scary manner the screen seems do have not gone in all the way cuz it is popping out a bit on the bottom edge appears the flood IR emitter for facial recognition is just plain broken but otherwise the thing is built like a tank. Keyboard is gorgeous to type on and the pen is handy to have docked inside the machine

Reddit, hello everyone, I recently bought my first ThinkPad (T14 Gen 2i) for $250. I'm a front-end and back-end developer. I work in PHP, HTML, Python, and Kotlin (minimally). I write code primarily using Ai. I have a question for you, as those who have used and are currently using it, about the appeal of installing Linux on a ThinkPad. It's supposedly more convenient than Windows, but I tried and failed due to the lack of Linux-specific software that I use on Windows. Another problem is the instability of Linux distributions. For example, about six months ago, I had a Dell Inspiron 5406. After installing Manjaro, I noticed that it certainly ran cooler, but when I launched Dota 2, it would freeze for about 10 minutes. Then the game would crash and give me an error about Linux running out of RAM. After two days of wasting my swap file, I couldn't fix it. A month later, I installed Windows 10. When I bought my ThinkPad, they installed Fedora, which I started installing everything I needed, and I was immediately told to calm down because the programs I needed for college didn't support Linux, only Windows. You could have said, "Install DualBoot," and yes, you could have, but I don't have much memory, so I had to choose between the two. Now I have a couple of questions for you and the community.

1. What Linux alternatives to popular applications do you personally use that are only available on Windows or MacOS?

2. Which distribution would you recommend to make the transition from Windows less painful? (just not pure Arch)

3. What problems have you personally encountered when switching to Linux?

I'd appreciate any answers. I'm new to this and don't really understand what's going on, so I apologize in advance for my occasional confusion.

Traded an old hp to a dude at school for this beautiful T430S. I5, 12 gb ddr3, and a 256 gb ssd with Debian on it. The battery’s in great condition for how old it is. I got the other laptop for $22, this is a steal, or am i insane?

Got this P1 Gen 4 for 555 USD. Suggestions? 🥹

Ive already talked about my first two pads. P15 is my main pad, T480 was bought for it parts but then I fell in love with it. Since then, it has become my project pad for when I'm doing DIY anything. But then...

- I bought a T400 for $15 while looking at this XP desktop on marketplace.

- Bought a X1 Yoga gen 3 because I wanted a more comfortable touchscreen to utilize the stylus I got with my P15.

- Now I also have a T14 gen 1. It was $100 and aside from missing the ThinkPad badge and a couple screen blemishes, its works perfectly fine. What will I do with it? Idk.

I recently bought a storm gray color Thinkpad T14 GEN 2 device. After some research i found out that the hinge design on the T14s gen 2 models are weaker and tend to break.

What is the reason for this to happen? Is it the hinges getting tighter overtime due to lack of lubrication...

I already bought the device. My device is already creating a small screeching noice when opening the lid. And now I'm thinking what should do.

What are the solutions to stop this noise.

Is there ways to prevent this hinge issue from happening.