Old bread is kill
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Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide:
http://ktgee.net/post/49423737148/thinkpad-guide
ThinkWiki - Info on ThinkPads & running GNU+Linux on them:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki
ThinkPad service guides w/ tutorial videos:
http://service.lenovo.partner-management.com/et.cfm?eid=1369
>>47055869
where you get this gif
Where do you usually buy replacement nibs for the digitizers of the tablets?
On eBay I only found the digitizers themselves.
>>47055869
I bought a car today, and there was an R51 in the back seat that the owner said didn't work. It has no HDD and no charger. How did I do /gee/?
>>47055904
Oh, and I only paid $200 for the car.
>>47055869
bought a refurb t61 today. first thinkpad ever and it should arrive in the next couple days.
what os should i install? i was thinking a bsd variant.
>>47055904
its a free thinkpad, you did good
what shitbox car did you buy?
>>47055943
94 Camry. It runs and drives good, got a bunch of miles though. Just wanted to stop driving my Mustang every day because gas mileage.
>>47055904
Get an universal charger and a GNU + Linux USB drive and check it out
>>47055971
I've got a charger on the way from Amazon, and tons of liveCD/DVDs laying around. Can't wait to see if all it needs is a HDD. Then I can start getting other things like RAM, and make it a decent little shitpost machine. It has the 1400x1050 screen too, which is p nice.
>>47055894
http://www.ebay.com/itm/For-IBM-ThinkPad-X41T-X60-X61-X200-W700-TABLET-DIGITIZER-STYLUS-PEN-TIPS-3PCS-/281113533469?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4173ac1c1d
http://www.ebay.com/itm/5-Lenovo-IBM-ThinkPad-X41T-X60T-X61T-X200T-X220T-X230T-Tablet-Touch-Pen-Tips-/181547529680?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2a451375d0
>>47055951
Dude. I bought a Camry for that exact reason.
I bought a 95 with 180k miles and it ran fine up until I sold it.
2013 GT if you even care.
Also, it will probably cost you more than the price of a functioning one to fix it.
>>47056002
> tips
Fucking chinks don't know what a nib is.
Thanks man.
My W500 just BSOD'd when I was trying to download furry porn. should I be worried?
in hindsight I was also running the evolver thing for Windows for maybe an hour. Does that provide cause for alarm?
>>47056018
I do care. I'm a bit more old school though. Mustang is a 94 5.0 with a shit ton of mods.
Far as the thinkpad goes, if it just needs a charger and a HDD shouldn't be a big deal. If it goes further than that I'll just recycle it.
Got anything done to your car?
>pic related is mine
>>47056055
well what was the error code...?
>>47056055
>W500 just BSOD'd
Get an OS that isn't complete trash.
>>47056098
I didn't get to check. I was trying to quickly take a picture of the screen but then it went away. The computer was able to boot fine but I restarted it after myself to disable switchable graphics to enable only discrete since I couldn't get switchable to work anyway. I'll try to emulate what happened and come back with more data if it happens again, sorry. But I should not be worried?
>>47056066
Nah. I live in a place where you need permits to modify your vehicle. Also, I'm riding my warranty out as long as I can.
I owned a 96 4.6 a few months ago. Fun as shit till I had to sell it.
I have an Edge E430 running Mint (inb4 >edge, didn't buy it myself)
Wifi is very spotty. It works for a minute here and there, and then it cuts out. It only comes back if I press Fn-F9 to disable/re-enable wireless.
Wifi card is Intel Centrino Wireless-N 2230. Tried google, tried disabling N, doesn't fix it.
ded?
>>47056135
They really are beyond fun to drive. Sucks to live somewhere like that. I live in a place where the only mod that would get some attention would be a jet engine or something like that. There is one asshole cop that loves to write tickets about loud exhaust, but he's the odd man out. Would like to see yours if you wanna post it, I fucking love muscle cars.
>>47056136
Go back to Windows until Linux drivers catch up. There is no other option. I had the same problem and had to leave Arch for almost a year.
>>47056164
>>47056195
Nice! I love white cars, wish I had a choice on mine. But it was only $900 with all the mods already done to it, so I snatched it up the second I knew it was available.
>>47056122
As long as your hard drive isn't dying and the laptop isn't overheating, then no you should not be worried
anyone know if you could do a custom reslution on a x220t?
>>47056229
Maybe with randr, or xrandr. Not sure though.
>>47056175
Is there a list of wifi cards that work well with Linux then?
>>47056223
The 96 GT I had was modified. I have no idea what had been done to it (besides taking a hacksaw to the tailpipe, it was cut off just before the cats. That and blaster coils). It was stupid fast and had a racing clutch. It was painted with house paint though.
>>47056227
Cool. Thanks for the help. I don't know how to confirm whether or not the hard drive is dying though. Lenovo power manager takes minutes to show up on my taskbar on boot in W7 but I thought that was just being inferior to an SSD.
>>47056241
Probably, but I don't know of one. I still don't have a perfect functioning card in my main laptop either.
>>47056242
People do love to hack them up, but no matter what they sound badass with the exhaust opened up. Doubt you want to read a full spec list on mine, but it has had everything touched up a bit, and a bunch of money spent. Shit paint too, the clearcoat peeled bad, and someone tried to chamelion the driver door, but did a shit job and it flaked off too.
>>47056066
>stock alloy
please just buy cheap steelies
>>47056282
It's a sleeper. If you don't know what that is, please go away.
I always ask this with no response, but can anyone give me a step by step of installing Middleton bios on my x61
>>47056317
google it, dickbreath.
>>47056317
google it, dickbreath.
>>47056290
>It's a sleeper. If you don't know what that is, please go away.
lel. I first heard of this from a racing game community so I guess I'm a cool kid now. not that guy though.
>>47056331
>>47056339
I did, instructions are vauge as shit
>>47056331
>>47056339
Did this really happen?
Did you really say the exact thing as me at the same time?
>>47056290
>murda'd out windows
>muskstang
yeh real sleeper m8
>>47056368
It's just regular black window tint...
Retard.
>>47056377
>its just regular black window tint
oh right i stand corrected
top fucking keks anon
>>47056377
Rims suck but the tires are nice.
Doesn't look too bad. At least it looks decently taken care of and not horribly riced out.
>>47056368
>>47056377
/g/ - technology but also being hostile to fellow car enthusiasts
>>47056392
>not horribly riced out
>like my thinkpad
its like they say, buy em cheap, make em creep
>>47056392
>Rims suck but the tires are nice.
Like I said, it's a sleeper. I have slicks for the strip, and Nittos for track days.
It is very well taken care of. Rice will never happen, I love the stock look.
>>47056398
It's so uncalled for too.
>>47056414
>welcome to the internet
>>47056414
it's probably easy to be elitist about something you can easily if not do actually sink so much time/ effort/ money/ research into...
>>47056407
I'm throwing on some bigger wheels and probably stripes, other than that I like the stock look
>>47056431
Who are you quoting?
>>47056433
MFW I own an Alienware 17 because the warranty that came with it is the shit.
Who cares if it dies after 6 months, I get a new one.
>>47056458
>Alienware 17
really inspired nomenclature I see.
>>47056441
Yeah, I bought some wheels for it, then thought better of it, and just put some sticky stock looking tires on it. The tires in pic are not the ones on it now btw, that was the first pic I took when I bought the car. Was higher res too, but that's what I got after dling all my shit from fb when getting rid of fb.
>>47056473
>deleting facebook
Best decision I ever made
>>47056468
Meh, I guess M17x was starting to sound silly.
>>47056480
>Best decision I ever made
Best one I've made in the last few years.
>>47056433
>on /consumer technology/
theyre not hard to work on, but obviously expense is a relative term.
basic machine tool proficiency can go a long way as far as $/performance is concerned
My X220 arrived today. 2.5GHz i5, 4GB RAM, 320GBHDD, in great condition for only $220. I feel like I scored a great deal because I'm already loving the thing and I still plan on putting a Samsung 850 SSD and IPS panel in it.
I can't believe I have /g/ to thank for recommending this.
god the people in these threads are so much more even keel than the rest of /g/
>shitpost guilt
._.
>>47056537
>I can't believe I have /g/ to thank for recommending this.
Thinkpads are the only the that /g/ collectively gets right. Don't get used to it.
>>47056553
>Thinkpads are the only the that /g/ collectively gets right.
Two /g/entoomen managed to create a wine build for me and my friends that bypasses gameguard so I think getting used to /g/ being pretty rad should be something everyone should attempt to do, might even reel in a better community every now and then.
>>47056055
My downlozd just finished despite the evolving thi g running the entire time so I don't think my computer will BSOD in the same fashion any time soon since recreating the conditions changed nothing. My providing more data regarding what happened here is unrealistic so forget it.
>>47056553
my lifestyle would not be possible without /g/s great recommendations
>sansa clip
>m50
>x200
>digging an old crt out of the trash
>not using windows
>learning lisp as a first programming language
>losing any and all physicality i might have onced possessed
Got this fucker for 100€ about 2 years ago. Battery is dead so I can't take it anywhere.
Found some chink batteries for 40€ are they worth it, since I'll only be relying on battery power for a few times a week (2h max) when we have programing class.
just got an i5 x201 4gb ram, 160gb hdd, and ultrabase for 160usd
>no os
is this usually indicative of shenanigans?
>>47056609
That's like a tenth of a week's pay even for poorfags, so yeah it's worth it, unless you're a child spending his allowance,
>>47056667
forgot to include a cool image
>>47056592
>bypasses gameguard
Is this public? A certain game I wanted to try uses Gameguard and it BSODs my windows installation.
>>47056667
Not necessarily, though if you are suspicious there are two things I would ask for
>photo of the Kensington Lock port
>photo/video of the device booting past the BIOS into e.g. a LiveUSB (so you know the BIOS isn't passworded - though this *may* be circumventable I think it's better for your conscience if you don't have to)
>>47057289
>conscience
good for you, seeing the best in people
the deals already done... the locks intact, no boot images though.
if the bios is locked down, how would i get around that?
also, is it possible to run coreboot etc.?
>>47057449
>Knobblies
>No clearance
Coconut indeed.
>>47057449
I'm not sure about the BIOS (I read something about taking out the BIOS battery for a while but don't quote me on it). Coreboot requires dedicated hardware to install, but if you go to Linux or Free Software conventions there are often stalls where people will install Coreboot for you. I'm planning on going to one in Europe as soon as I work out when the soonest one I can actually attend is.
So anon from last thread with a T420 delivery that has a high chance of fucking up.
Should i either try to hunt for some T410 locally, try add a bit more and get an X220 with IPS flexview panel and a 500gb hdd or get a Mint condition W500 with FHD screen straight from IBM?
>>47057489
>get a Mint condition W500 with FHD screen straight from IBM
Would you mind telling us more about this?
