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why in the good goddamn everliving gently caress does anyone buy a surface of any sort jesus loving christ Jonny 290 posted:gonna put a $25 120gb ssd in this old lovely thinkpad i have lying around the other 120GB ssd lying around or the other thinkpad lying around literally have a stack of 3 ~120GB SSDs sitting on my desk right now. edit: gently caress actually i've got 4 sitting here lmao
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the other stinkpad. i gotta run down to microcenter and get the disk its uhhhh a t510 its huge and ugly.
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my girlfriend uses a surface book for work and is in a constant state of pissed at how terrible it is and i lol & lol
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Jonny 290 posted:the other stinkpad. i gotta run down to microcenter and get the disk first gen core i5, woof, yeah pc laptops were fuckin' chunky then. HP elitebooks from that era were so loving bad, every now and then one of those pops up at work yuck. even the gen after that (8460p?) was obnoxiously clunky what sorta nerd project u got in mind for that sumbitch?
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SO DEMANDING posted:first gen core i5, woof, yeah pc laptops were fuckin' chunky then. HP elitebooks from that era were so loving bad, every now and then one of those pops up at work yuck. even the gen after that (8460p?) was obnoxiously clunky its got displayport so i'm probably going to punt on this goddamn 11 year old WDTV first gen because it literally can't even log in to Spotify. htpc type thingy. Still need to find a remote. And yeah, i bought this for weedjob before i found out that they were going to give me a laptop. it's awful. i hate this computer so much. the battery lasts like an hour and a half and its a 9 cell. meanwhile my x201 has loving 750 cycles on the 9cell and still runs seven hours of browsing or 4 hours of full cpu crank.
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gonadic io posted:about to order a surface book 2 to replace my surface pro. i wish there was a 2-in-1 mac or that hackintoshing was a bit more supported but until then i'll just stick with WSL 
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I had an old-rear end W520 with Windows 7 and it was ok. Now I have an old-rear end W520 with Windows 10 and it's poo poo.
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flakeloaf posted:c t430 s: still owning bones after five years how do you like having the one generation with the hosed up buttonless touchpad
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I have an old old T410i that's literally been on fire and kept on trucking for a further 2 years before the CPU fan gave out and now it BSOD's on boot. Also the power jack is only theoretically attached anymore. I'm tempted to throw a new main board and fan at it and keep the thing, I'm quite attached to the stupid thing and it's only like £20 of parts.
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i have an x201 that i most certainly overpaid for when i bought it from the 2nd hand compute shoppe it's running a loving ancient M540 i5 at 2.53 ghz with 4gb ddr3 it's got fan problems, overheats when plugged into the powersupply, uncertain battery life, and some little plastic tab in the battery area is broken so if I move it too much on the table the battery comes out and the whole thing shuts down i am desperate to keep it alive and in my life
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The Puppet Master posted:i have an x201 that i most certainly overpaid for when i bought it from the 2nd hand compute shoppe typing on my x201 right now. the cooling clogs up. pop the keyboard (3 or 4 screws) out and you can hit 90% of the heatsink/fan assembly with canned air. as far as the loose battery, you might need a new bottom chassis. buy a hosed up one for 40 bucks on ebay for spare parts imo. I really like this thing. bout to buy a new battery. I know it'll take at least 6gb of ram, i should buy a 4gb stick to max it at 8
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x200t was my daily driver for a while but the mobo died, it still holds up pretty well with an ssd
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yep i got one of those $29 microcenter 120gb's in this thing and it's perfectly fine for browsing / slack / spotify whatever. just doing that one swap from platter to SSD gave me an extra hour (at least) on this old lovely 9 cell with almost 800 cycles, too
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They use Thinkpads aboard the International Space Station. I am typing this from a refurbished Thinkpad x200.
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Progressive JPEG posted:how do you like having the one generation with the hosed up buttonless touchpad must've hosed up extra hard cause mine has buttons, works and is good
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RobobTheGreat posted:They use Thinkpads aboard the International Space Station. Probably because they don't stop working due to a piece of dust And if they did you could fix it yourself with a phillips head screwdriver
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Probably because they don't stop working due to a piece of dust what about space dust? 
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I have a T420S, I never use it, but I'm glad I have the last good version of the thinkpad.
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flakeloaf posted:must've hosed up extra hard cause mine has buttons, works and is good oops wait i was apparently thinking of the 440, anyway this is what i was referring to:  it sucked
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tell your friend to do proper backups imo a "recovery port" isnt going to do poo poo when he drops his laptop in the sea or deletes c:
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suffix posted:tell your friend to do proper backups imo yeah anything on a portable device should be treated as disposable. good luck convincing anyone to take that seriously, though really anything not in two or more places, but so many more things can go wrong with portable devices. at least they dont have spinny disks anymore
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crossposting from the linux thread i guess you thinkpad fetishist can finally rejoice, lenovo's joining lvfs https://blogs.gnome.org/hughsie/2018/08/06/please-welcome-lenovo-to-the-lvfs/ finally support for updating your firmwares in linux
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Raluek posted:yeah anything on a portable device should be treated as disposable. good luck convincing anyone to take that seriously, though my company has an it policy forbidding ssds lol
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Progressive JPEG posted:oops wait i was apparently thinking of the 440, anyway this is what i was referring to: Yes but unlike every other electronics manufacturer on the planet, Lenovo listened to their customers when they said "this sucks" and Lenovo responded "you're right, our bad" and they went back to the older style
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fart simpson posted:my company has an it policy forbidding ssds lol an interesting choice, kind of like mandating telnet for logins
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fart simpson posted:my company has an it policy forbidding ssds lol wtf
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Probably some dumb CISSP who read that wiping SSD's is unreliable.
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fart simpson posted:my company has an it policy forbidding ssds lol when it was time for me to get a new laptop at motorola, i begged for a mac of some sort because i was literally sitting in shells and telnet/ssh'ing all day and writing perl that was one hundred percent ofmy job nope. here is your 15" Elitebook with a loving numeric keypad. "can i get an ssd in it at least?" "THOSE ARE SO EXPENSIVE DONT YOU WANT THE GIGABYTES" and then delivered it to me with a 640gb platter drive, which promptly died and took me offline for over a week while they sent their HP Authorized Tech or whatever down to loving arkansas to swap the drive lol
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fart simpson posted:my company has an it policy forbidding ssds lol
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mystes posted:Maybe they should consider forbidding computers entirely? that's a really good computer policy
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Tankakern posted:crossposting from the linux thread neato, i already used fwupdmgr to update some firmware on my thinkpad
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Tankakern posted:crossposting from the linux thread Cool an easier way to get my Chinese backdoors applied
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SpaceAceJase posted:Cool an easier way to get my Chinese backdoors applied Reflections on Trusting Trust - Ken Thompson
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spankmeister posted:Probably some dumb CISSP who read that wiping SSD's is unreliable. it was explained to me that it’s because we only have a backup approval for vps and above on the pay scale, so our actual back up system for most employees is spinny disk emergency data recovery and the vendor we use said they can’t recover data from failed ssds. lol.
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we get a 800 megabyte exchange inbox and 50 megabytes of space on a local network share
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our local it guy told me we actually order thinkpads that come with ssds and pay lenovo extra money to remove the ssds and replace them with hdds
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fart simpson posted:it was explained to me that it’s because we only have a backup approval for vps and above on the pay scale, so our actual back up system for most employees is spinny disk emergency data recovery and the vendor we use said they can’t recover data from failed ssds. fart simpson posted:our local it guy told me we actually order thinkpads that come with ssds and pay lenovo extra money to remove the ssds and replace them with hdds how many laptops do you lose every year to elephants accidentally stepping on them, when someone leaves them in the wrong part of the large multicoloured tent that is your workplace
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flakeloaf posted:how many laptops do you lose every year to elephants accidentally stepping on them, when someone leaves them in the wrong part of the large multicoloured tent that is your workplace we have twenty eight thousand employees
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