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ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 — Ryzen 7 PRO 5850U, 16GB soldered, 512GB SSD, fresh battery — paid $320.

Absolutely love the key travel on this thing!!

After my previous post , i searched for what thinkpad i should chose and found out that everyone says that t480 are really legend and still not too bad to buy.

For me it kinda curious,why ThinkPad from 2018 are still this popular and a lot of people still buying him?

I don't want to offend anyone, I'm just curious, maybe I'll even consider this model for purchase.

Bezel downlight (ThinkLight, I've been informed) makes it possible to see where the mouse is in the dark, as well as the keys.

I've been after a newer generation X1 Carbon with an OLED screen and saw this one pop up on eBay. Better yet, it was only about 30 minutes away, so I was able to pick it up shortly after paying. Incredibly, it's in immaculate condition and when I went to check the battery report, it reported having only 2 cycles! The PC itself was not wiped and by looking at the files modification date, it seems the previous owner started using this device in August of last year. I feel like it's an incredible deal, did I overpay or did I get a great deal?

Does anybody have this setup?

I found this thinkpad on facebook. Ive been wanting to upgrade my laptop for a while now. I just graduated college and my old laptop barely limped accross that finish line. It only has 8 gigs of ram so if i had my 3D design software running along with the slicer it would freeze up and crash. I really would only use a new laptop for general browsing, some 3D design/slicing, and to download music for my ipod. I just want to make sure its a machine that will last me a while. Its a first generation and I talked him down to $275. Good deal? Or should I hold off?

I want to buy thinkpad for programming and some light game .

My budget is like us$340 .

Are p5x , like p52 are will be good ? Or better chose something else?

For me its looks not bad because its have dedicated gpu what would be good for games and some modeling.

My First laptop in 10 years. I bought this t480 for 100€ and immediately put Linux on it. Any cool things, that are ThinkPad(or even laptop) specific?

When I got the laptop, i got a warning telling me that the battery isn't genuine and that it won't be charged by the system, even though that's the battery the PC came with. I didn't really mind and would have taken my time to purchase a new one, but that was before I had seen that the performance was cut due to power throttling. I have tried so many tweaks, all the way from power settings to registry edits, BIOS u name it. So I finally got the battery last two days, and for the first time, when I unplugged the pc, it didn't die immediately. The pc's CPU wasn't capped anymore, too. One weird thing is that when I put in the battery, it was already at 100%. It was 100% for an hour, even after being unplugged, and it just suddenly died. It wasn't turning on anymore unless I removed the battery. Can anyone help me? It definitely isn't the battery atp. Please don't recommend an EC reset it doesn't do anything.

I made minute adjustments on the wallpaper to appear more pleasing on lock screen and desktop.

My parents bough me this Thinkpad 4 years ago, when I was in my last year of highschool. It runs EVERYTHING, from basic web searching and Docs typing to CAD software. I'm planning to use it for at least 4 more years or till it reduce to dust lol

From an ancient P1/X1 gen 1 to reasonably recent gen 5.
Huge performance boost with 12800h, RTX A5500, 4k display and 64GB of RAM. Hope it will last many years just like the old one.
It is a great machine, yet trading classic ThinkPad robustness for great weight.

I dug this IBM Thinkpad X60 out of a junk pile at work. It didn't have a charger, so I improvised a connection (second image) for it to draw power from a generic 19V supply. But it still didn't work. Apparently the network card was literally fried and stopped the whole laptop from working. I removed that, tried one from a netbook, which the thinkpad loved to complain about being "unauthorized"... Definitely didn't expect DRM hardware in 2006... But after I ditched network cards entirely, and added some DDR2 RAM, it worked!

Anyway, in the hard disk I found evidence that the laptop had gone from Greece to China and back multiple times, and that someone was still using it until 2021! And the bottom plate has the marking of the french version of windows XP. This laptop has had quite the life! I copied all the lore material from the HDD and then installed Puppy Linux, which you can see running on the first photo. It's really cool, but I still have to figure out how to get it to the internet and download programs.

Unfortunately, the keyboard doesn't work apart from some random keys, the mouse joystick thing, and the power button (which is indeed somewhat flaky too), hence the silly tiny white keyboard at the bottom. It also sometimes randomly exits to a black screen with a non blinking cursor so maybe the HDD is giving up? Not sure. Fixing everything would be cool, but not sure it's worth the money. I plan on using it with an RTL SDR outdoors since the battery works, but any slightly weird but very cool ideas are welcome. Also, I'd appreciate some ideas on how to make this more workable without the external keyboard. The built in one is the best I've ever typed on.

Anyway, that's it, my first ever Thinkpad, slightly disappointing that the keyboard is dead, but it was a really fun find! It looks like the laptop Ryoske Takahashi would use to develop his "fastest racer theory" on the go. The junk pile included laptops a decade newer than this, and those were actually dead beyond repair! Those engineers at IBM really went on to build a tank disguising as a laptop. Let me know your thoughts!