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Better get a Thinkpad x270 before all of the depreciated corporate hand-me-downs dry up! Shame no Thunderbolt though.

by dayofthedaleks 6y ago

everybodyknows 6y ago
Can you recommend a source for used Thinkpad x270s?
- dayofthedaleks 6y ago
  Sorry I don’t know any good vendors but I do see an i7 with the rarer IPS 1920p display on eBay for 500 bucks and I’m sure other marketplaces have more than a few.
noir_lord 6y ago
My T470P has all of that - following models have at least one dimm soldered which is crap.
- ethagnawl 6y ago
  Wow. Those are still pretty expensive. I've been considering replacing my T430, but I'm not sure it's worthwhile. Mine has 16GB of RAM, i7 quad core, 1TB SSD, etc. I think my money would be better spent upgrading the screen on my existing machine. It's also worth noting that I was able to buy a backup/spare T430 to use for parts and experimentation for ~$100. All in all, I've been very happy with this model.
  - jlgaddis 6y ago
    My main laptop is still an ~7-year-old ThinkPad W530. I pretty much maxed it out when I bought it: quad-core i7-3740QM, 32 GB of RAM, a pair of Samsung 850 Pro SSDs (RAID1), Nvidia something 2GB, FHD screen, etc. I was thinking about upgrading recently and was leaning towards the T470 for various reasons, including seeing a few nice used ones available locally at "okay" prices... until I started to actually compare them! Based on the benchmarks I could find, I came to the conclusion that the performance of the T470 was no better than that of my old tank, the W530 -- and may have even been worse! Once I looked into the cost of upgrading the RAM on the T470 (as I tend to run several VMs concurrently) I decided I'd simply be wasting money "upgrading" to the T470. Additionally, I've got a T420 which, although even older, still performs amazingly well -- once it was upgraded to 16 GB of RAM and a 480 GB SSD. I've only got ~$150 in it and it'll do a fine job if/when the W530 finally dies. (The "upgrade" wasn't really a priority anyways, as I've got a beast of a workstation that I use 90% of the time.)
    - noir_lord 6y ago
      Aye, I maxed mine out, 7700HQ 32GB nvme ssd and the 2560x1440. Was 1400 quid, the ZenBook I bought the missus with the Ryzen 4xxx obliterates it. The perf improvement from 3rd to 8th gen intels was marginal. Thank god AMD and M1 is pushing things forwards finally. Buying a machine 4 years later and getting bugger all improvement gets old after a while. Now I’m wfh forever I use my desktop and the laptop sits next to the work MacBook, forlorn and alone.
Guest42 6y ago
Can these run Linux too? If so, I'll buy a few of them.
- diarrhea 6y ago
  Yes of course. People are running Linux on toilets at this rate.
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- dayofthedaleks 6y ago
  For all of Lenovo’s sins on the consumer lines, the Thinkpads have continued to have exemplary driver support under Linux.
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  - easton 6y ago
    They even ship machines with it now (The P Series and X1 Carbon, at least. Fedora.)

Better get a Thinkpad x270 before all of the depreciated corporate hand-me-downs dry up! Shame no Thunderbolt though.

everybodyknows 6y ago

Can you recommend a source for used Thinkpad x270s?

dayofthedaleks 6y ago
Sorry I don’t know any good vendors but I do see an i7 with the rarer IPS 1920p display on eBay for 500 bucks and I’m sure other marketplaces have more than a few.

noir_lord 6y ago

My T470P has all of that - following models have at least one dimm soldered which is crap.

ethagnawl 6y ago
Wow. Those are still pretty expensive. I've been considering replacing my T430, but I'm not sure it's worthwhile. Mine has 16GB of RAM, i7 quad core, 1TB SSD, etc. I think my money would be better spent upgrading the screen on my existing machine. It's also worth noting that I was able to buy a backup/spare T430 to use for parts and experimentation for ~$100. All in all, I've been very happy with this model.
- jlgaddis 6y ago
  My main laptop is still an ~7-year-old ThinkPad W530. I pretty much maxed it out when I bought it: quad-core i7-3740QM, 32 GB of RAM, a pair of Samsung 850 Pro SSDs (RAID1), Nvidia something 2GB, FHD screen, etc. I was thinking about upgrading recently and was leaning towards the T470 for various reasons, including seeing a few nice used ones available locally at "okay" prices... until I started to actually compare them! Based on the benchmarks I could find, I came to the conclusion that the performance of the T470 was no better than that of my old tank, the W530 -- and may have even been worse! Once I looked into the cost of upgrading the RAM on the T470 (as I tend to run several VMs concurrently) I decided I'd simply be wasting money "upgrading" to the T470. Additionally, I've got a T420 which, although even older, still performs amazingly well -- once it was upgraded to 16 GB of RAM and a 480 GB SSD. I've only got ~$150 in it and it'll do a fine job if/when the W530 finally dies. (The "upgrade" wasn't really a priority anyways, as I've got a beast of a workstation that I use 90% of the time.)
  - noir_lord 6y ago
    Aye, I maxed mine out, 7700HQ 32GB nvme ssd and the 2560x1440. Was 1400 quid, the ZenBook I bought the missus with the Ryzen 4xxx obliterates it. The perf improvement from 3rd to 8th gen intels was marginal. Thank god AMD and M1 is pushing things forwards finally. Buying a machine 4 years later and getting bugger all improvement gets old after a while. Now I’m wfh forever I use my desktop and the laptop sits next to the work MacBook, forlorn and alone.

Guest42 6y ago

Can these run Linux too? If so, I'll buy a few of them.

diarrhea 6y ago
Yes of course. People are running Linux on toilets at this rate.
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dayofthedaleks 6y ago
For all of Lenovo’s sins on the consumer lines, the Thinkpads have continued to have exemplary driver support under Linux.
- deleted 6y ago
  [deleted]
- easton 6y ago
  They even ship machines with it now (The P Series and X1 Carbon, at least. Fedora.)