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There are only so many 2006-2012 vintage Thinkpads in existence, as he mentions in the last section. This certainly relevant to his "this is a hack" point, howe

by prvc 6y ago

There are only so many 2006-2012 vintage Thinkpads in existence, as he mentions in the last section. This certainly relevant to his "this is a hack" point, however, one should note that prices for these items used has been going up lately, a very unusual trend for used PCs. I hope manufacturers notice this latent value in the PC market.

Talanes 6y ago
I remember some years ago when I still lurked 4chan that /t/ was all about buying old thinkpads, installing Arch on them, and showing off your i3 set-up. Prices were rising then too.
- na85 6y ago
  You mean /g/? /t/ is Torrents. There was a good thing going there for a while but 4chan seems to have really declined in quality of late.
  - Talanes 6y ago
    Yeah, I meant /g/. It felt like things really got out of hand after the 2016 election. That's when I noticed the partisan bickering really start to take over boards that had mostly avoided it before. One side felt emboldened, and the other felt under attack, and so both of them just endlessly derailed what could have been good threads.
ja27 6y ago
Despite my daily driver being my i9 16" MacBook Pro, I've started falling for the Thinkpads. Had a couple E-series before but right as the pandemic started I grabbed a used i5 X270. Swapped in a 1080 IPS screen, an SSD, and eventually 16GB of RAM so I'm at about $500 for a machine that can do everything I _need_. Charges with IBM chargers or USB-C. Has enough ports. Can run macOS in VirtualBox and I've even built iOS apps on it. Handles light gaming. Matte screen. Cheap enough that I'm not paranoid about damaging it. Yeah the used market prices crept up, probably due to families buying up laptops for online school students, but you can still catch bargains. Unfortunately much past the X280/T480 generation and you stop being able to upgrade things yourself. It's like I see in the used Mac Mini market where there are a ton of otherwise useful machines from 2014 but they're crippled with 4GB of non-upgradable RAM.

by prvc 6y ago

Talanes 6y ago

I remember some years ago when I still lurked 4chan that /t/ was all about buying old thinkpads, installing Arch on them, and showing off your i3 set-up. Prices were rising then too.

na85 6y ago
You mean /g/? /t/ is Torrents. There was a good thing going there for a while but 4chan seems to have really declined in quality of late.
- Talanes 6y ago
  Yeah, I meant /g/. It felt like things really got out of hand after the 2016 election. That's when I noticed the partisan bickering really start to take over boards that had mostly avoided it before. One side felt emboldened, and the other felt under attack, and so both of them just endlessly derailed what could have been good threads.

ja27 6y ago

Despite my daily driver being my i9 16" MacBook Pro, I've started falling for the Thinkpads. Had a couple E-series before but right as the pandemic started I grabbed a used i5 X270. Swapped in a 1080 IPS screen, an SSD, and eventually 16GB of RAM so I'm at about $500 for a machine that can do everything I _need_. Charges with IBM chargers or USB-C. Has enough ports. Can run macOS in VirtualBox and I've even built iOS apps on it. Handles light gaming. Matte screen. Cheap enough that I'm not paranoid about damaging it. Yeah the used market prices crept up, probably due to families buying up laptops for online school students, but you can still catch bargains. Unfortunately much past the X280/T480 generation and you stop being able to upgrade things yourself. It's like I see in the used Mac Mini market where there are a ton of otherwise useful machines from 2014 but they're crippled with 4GB of non-upgradable RAM.