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[The Fartist]

I'm a little buzzed, thought I'd create a ThinkPad thread for all you ThinkPad degenerates. I'll start it off:

x220 i7
T460s i5
x390 Yoga i5
T480 i5/i7 MX150
T480s i7

I don't know, thought this would be a good alternative to the ThinkPad subreddit, we'll se where this goes...

 

[Hrk69]

 

[The Fartist]

ThinkPad Subreddit

 

[Hrk69]

 

[showernota]

I work in IT and my organization is exclusively Lenovo. I’ve been able to work on everything from ancient Edges to the newest P16. We’ve had a few dells and HPs pass through, and the difference in quality and longevity is night and day. The T490 model was the closest I’ve seen to being a letdown, but even those are fairly solid. I think the T440p will always be my favorite.

 

[ReBurn]

I have two 14 inch thinkpads and a 17 inch thinkpad mobile workstation that I use for work.

My daily driver is a couple year old p14s with an i7, 32gb ram and 1 TB SSD. The 17 inch is also an i7 but with 64gb ram and 5 total TB SSD. It also has a keyboard with a 10-key numpad that I literally never use. I don't know the model number offhand. The other 14 inch is 3 years old now, but it's still a great machine. I leave it at home and use it when I work from there. If I need horsepower for something when working remotely I just RDP to the mobile workstation. I leave the 17 inch chained to my desk at work because I don't want to lug around a 14 pound laptop for any reason.

I'm thinking of moving daily work to a 14 inch X1 carbon after the first of the year. Or whatever gives me the best performance in a 14 inch profile at the time. I travel for work a lot so I don't like to carry a large, heavy laptop with me but I want enough horsepower to actually get work done on the go.

 

[LordCBH]

Thinkpads before Lenovo bought them were fantabulous machines.

The new ones are still the best choices out there, but just not the same.

 

[Lord Panda]

I still have my Thinkpad X61T lying around somewhere.

I remember when I first saw it, my primitive monkey brain told me that I absolutely had to have one.

 

[Tams]

X61T, X201T, X220T, and X230T are the only ones I care about.

The Helix was tempting, but far too expensive and lacking in features (like the number of keys on the keyboard).

 

[Komatsu]

I have many. From my time at IBM, I kept: a T42 and T61. I have a T400 somewhere and a T495 (great machine).

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

Should have had a serious think before you posted OP.

/s

 

[The Fartist]

Should have had a serious think before you posted OP.

/s

Why?

Edit: today I learned what "/s" means

 

[dispensergoinup]

I was able to grab one of the Thinkpads before we asset disposed all of them. Need to drop an OS on it and play around.

 

[finalflame]

T60p, T420, now an X13. They're good for keeping a PC around for the odd case where I need one.

 

[Forsete]

T520
T450S
T495

 

[The Fartist]

I was able to grab one of the Thinkpads before we asset disposed all of them. Need to drop an OS on it and play around.

Linux is the way

 

[gar3]

I use my T440p at home almost every single day. Upgraded the CPU last year to a 4712MQ.
The wife uses her JPN T400 all day, every day. Upgraded her CPU to a T9900, like, a decade ago.
My parents both have their own Thinkcentre E93z systems for everyday computing needs.

And we still have my wife's JPN 1161-72J.

 

[The Fartist]

Waiting on a dual-pipe heatsink for my T480 i5, temps currently hover between 55-65 at full load, using PTM7950 thermal pads on both the CPU and iGPU, hopefully, the dual-pipe will lower my temps 3-5 degrees. The T480 i5 model comes with a single-pipe. My T480 i7 runs pretty warm at full load, 70-75, with PTM and a dual-pipe. I'm loving my i5, the downgrade in performance isn't significant, but runs way cooler and the battery is almost twice as long, I do wish it had the MX 150 my i7 has, though. Running Fedora 40 KDE Plasma.

 

[RagnarokIV]

ThinkPad? After quickly google searching, isn’t this thread basically like a “Wish.com HiPhone appreciation club” but for laptops?

 

[The Fartist]

ThinkPad? After quickly google searching, isn’t this thread basically like a “Wish.com HiPhone appreciation club” but for laptops?

 

[Quasicat]

We had them at work in our old building, then we built a completely new, state of the art, campus in 2012 where we transitioned to Surface tablet/laptops.
The only productive thing I did with my Thinkpad when it wasn’t docked was Solitaire. Solitaire ran really well on it.

 

[The Fartist]

We had them at work in our old building, then we built a completely new, state of the art, campus in 2012 where we transitioned to Surface tablet/laptops.
The only productive thing I did with my Thinkpad when it wasn’t docked was Solitaire. Solitaire ran really well on it.

Ouch, talk about a downgrade, Surface isn't serviceable, and they're fragile.

 

[Quasicat]

Ouch, talk about a downgrade, Surface isn't serviceable, and they're fragile.

Absolutely! If I had a personal computer that ran like the Surface computers at work, it would be in the trash. We have so many problems with them, but our IT lead is so into Windows no matter how many problems they cause.

 

[showernota]

My work deployed Surfaces for some users who needed tablets. I pivoted and picked up a Yoga instead the next time a tablet was needed, and it’s sooo much better than a Surface.

 

[Melon Husk]

Thinkpad keyboards are the closest thing we have to a typewriter in this modern era.

 

[The Fartist]

Thinkpad keyboards are the closest thing we have to a typewriter in this modern era.

Yup, my x220 keyboard is the best I've ever used on a laptop, close second is my T480 i7, the keys almost feel mechanical.

 

[dem]

I gave someone a new thinkpad at work today

They complained that it looked 20 years old.

It was brand new

#ThinkpadLife

 

[The Fartist]

I gave someone a new thinkpad at work today

They complained that it looked 20 years old.

It was brand new

#ThinkpadLife

It's a vibe.