Hello

Final year student here. I need to buy a thinkpad within 140k BDT (850 USD).

I mainly work with web dev, currently using arch with hyprland, but thinking of moving to a more stable distro like Fedora, as I have to enter the professional development work (wish me luck to even get a job in this harsh market!).

I will also run some local models, but

I have chosen thinkpad over nvidia GPU laptops because of its compatibility with linux, and durability.

Has anyone been using a thinkpad? any help would be much appreciated. thank you:)

Hi, nice to meet you all.

The machine is a ThinkPad 240X from 2000.

It currently runs Windows 98, but I would like to make it run Linux.

Its processor is a Celeron and it has 64 MB of RAM. I plan to buy an SSD with its IDE adapter, plus max out the RAM. Also an Ethernet adapter and some 3D-printed batteries.

I use Arch on my main machine. I would like something similar, but focused on reading PDFs and writing. I use TUI environments a lot.

I am not a native English speaker and I used a translator to make this post. Good night everyone.

Picked up an IBM ThinkPad 760XL today — and even the 30-year-old battery still works!

Today I managed to get my hands on this old IBM ThinkPad 760XL, and surprisingly, it still works perfectly.

The craziest part? Even the original battery still holds a charge after almost 30 years!

Specs:

Intel Pentium MMX 166 MHz

48 MB EDO RAM

12.1" TFT Active Matrix display, 800×600

Trident Cyber9320, 2 MB VRAM

Original 2.1 GB IBM HDD

8× CD-ROM

ESS AudioDrive 16-bit sound

TrackPoint III

2× PCMCIA

RS-232 serial, LPT, VGA, PS/2 and IrDA

Li-Ion 10.8 V / 3.0 Ah battery

Around 3.2 kg / 7.1 lbs

Released in 1997

It also has that awesome mechanically lifting keyboard that these old ThinkPads are known for.

Everything seems to be working, including the HDD, display, CD-ROM and battery.

I’m curious what the vintage ThinkPad crowd thinks: is a working 760XL like this worth anything these days?

Either way, I think it’s an awesome piece of computing history.

My setup is ultra think base.

X230 : i7 3520m 16gb for watching movie or tv series

T440p : i7 ıps full hd

Hi!, I'm looking for the recovery media for my T42. Spanish version. Thanks

Ich glaube, ich habe ein Problem.

Es hat ganz harmlos angefangen:

„Ich brauche nur ein günstiges ThinkPad für unterwegs.“

Dann kam das zweite.

Weil das erste ja nicht für alles ideal war.

Dann ein drittes – „nur als Bastelgerät“.

Ein viertes als Ersatzteilspender.

Ein fünftes, weil es einfach zu günstig war, um es stehen zu lassen.

Mittlerweile ertappe ich mich bei Gedanken wie:

„Den T460s brauche ich eigentlich nicht … aber das Touchpad könnte ich irgendwann brauchen.“

„Ein X270 wäre interessant – nur zum Vergleichen mit dem X260.“

„Der hat 32 GB RAM? Eigentlich wäre es unverantwortlich, den NICHT zu kaufen.“

„Für 20 Euro kann man da nichts falsch machen.“

„Zur Not wird er halt Teileträger.“

Das Schlimmste: Ich kenne inzwischen bei manchen ThinkPads die FRU-Nummern besser als die Geburtstage meiner Verwandten. 😂

Andere Menschen sehen auf dem Flohmarkt einen alten Laptop.

Ich sehe:

RAM. SSD. Display. Tastatur. Akku. Ersatzteile. POTENZIAL.

Langsam brauche ich keine weitere ThinkPad-Tasche mehr, sondern ein ThinkPad-Regal mit Inventarverwaltung.

Daher meine Frage:

Gibt es irgendwo eine Selbsthilfegruppe für Anonyme ThinkPad-Süchtige (ATS)?

Treffen könnten ungefähr so beginnen:

„Hallo, ich bin Daniel … und ich habe seit 12 Tagen kein ThinkPad gekauft.“

So I bought this online cos It was advertised as

Zhend Original New CPU For ThinkPads T470 T480
Heatsink Cooling Fan WN-2 FAN 01YR202
01YR200

But instead, I got 01AX925.

This is a dual hearpipe. Is this compatible? Cos I would like to save myself from the hassle of a refund. Any reply would be appreciated!

Its a Man's World

I’m looking for an upgrade for my new T480s’ speakers. I’ve been able to modify pretty much everything else in the machine, but the speakers are alluding. I love everything about the computer, but the stock speakers absolutely suck. Seems like lots of people have done retrofits but none of them have guides. I’ve been working with ChatGPT and it recommended the speakers from the X1 carbon GEN seven (model 5SB0V98078)** **The only hiccup I’ve perceived is that the X1 speakers are for channels with a woofer and a tweeter but I’m using fedora and ChatGPT seems to think that there are already some Lennox drivers that could compensate for this. I’m willing to do some splicing to make it work. I’m fairly new to the Lenovo ThinkPad community so any advice is appreciated.

It came with a ssd drive and I had swapped for a Samsung ssd and bought total of 8gb of ram for the machine to max it out. I also found a Lenovo charger at my job and the battery STILL HOLDS a Charge. I spent many hours and no sleep nights to find and oem windows 7 image to install on it can’t wait to have it die on windows 7

Installing arch on my Thinkpad and playing some classics on my vita

My everyday setup

Можно ли установить 2K IPS-дисплей на версию AMD, если установленная сейчас матрица - FHD? Мне не нравится отклик или частота обновления 60 Гц, как будто в Windows 11 она установлена не на 60 Гц, а на 40-50. Матрица NE140WUM-N6G