yttriumtyclief

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by yttriumtyclief 7y ago
The reason that those USB adapters get hot is because they have to actively convert 3.3V to 5V. That's an inefficient process and it's what causes excess heat. My mod doesn't have that problem, so the only heat generated will
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by yttriumtyclief 7y ago
For a single laptop? Not usually, although the T430 and X230 have some device-specific mods that took off. For the entire ThinkPad lineup spanning 5 generations? Oh yeah, definitely.
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by yttriumtyclief 7y ago
>the best thing to put in it is a bluetooth mouse If you're talking about a dongle and not a mouse itself, I've got a mod coming for that too~
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by yttriumtyclief 7y ago
The intention isn't to be faster than the internal bay, it's to add another drive to machines with limited drive support. For instance, X230 only has a single SATA3 drive accessible. You can add an mSATA, but they don't come
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by yttriumtyclief 7y ago
As the other reply noted, I can be reached through a lot of different means, but you can actually do what you're asking to do through Indiegogo! When you select the 2pack and go to the checkout, you can pick sizes individually. You can
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by yttriumtyclief 7y ago
It was! I had to remove the entire ExpressCard cage on the X230 I was using for testing. However, as noted in your edit, I've since slimmed the drive down further. This is what it looks like now: https://i.imgur.com/A0X
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by yttriumtyclief 7y ago
>An ebay hunt and hours with a soldering iron later, I had a seemingly-working miniPCIe slot. Didn't really have a use for it though, other than bragging rights. T440p supports this as well! It has a secret third M.2 2280 B-key slot
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by yttriumtyclief 7y ago
This, the 480Mbit/s rating for USB 2.0 is bits, not bytes. USB2 theoretically caps out at 80MB/s (realistically much much lower) whereas even PCI-E 1.1 can hit 250MB/s (2.5Gbit/s before 8b/10b encoding overhead) in
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by yttriumtyclief 7y ago
Yes, the very first prototype was a fairly poorly-produced FDM. The actual 3d model was high quality, but my brother just got it printed at his college's maker space, by someone who didn't really care to make it look good. It was
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by yttriumtyclief 7y ago
It will be 3d printed, but I'll be using a higher quality ABS filament, and finishing each one nicely. If you know what to look for, you'll be able to tell it was 3d printed, but nobody will notice it sitting inside your machine.
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by yttriumtyclief 7y ago
It's really not that big of a deal, honestly. My biggest gripe with the T25 is definitely the display, but not because of the aspect ratio... The damn thing is 220nit. It's crazy dim.
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by yttriumtyclief 7y ago
I feel like there's room for a couple of hobbyists to design and manufacture niche mods, as you've suggested. We've already seen it take off with Nitrocaster, and I think there's still room for a few more. My hope with T
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by yttriumtyclief 7y ago
The T420 was the last "IBM-feeling" ThinkPad in terms of design, while the T430 was the last competent machine of that generation, only having a few drawbacks while adding many benefits over its predecessor. The similar thing happ
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by yttriumtyclief 7y ago
I wouldn't have come up with a brand if I was only planning on making a single product!