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Very nice video! The price and conditions are outstanding! If they had 16gb RAM, for my personal everyday usage it would be perfect, I just wish I could find some deals like that

Lenovo is garbage!

do you reccomend this for simple editing and render video with capcut software?

Recently picked up T14s gen 1 for 200$ (I live in Poland, the prices are normally +20-30% of that in the US) with Ryzen 5 4650U, 16GB ram, 512GB SSD, 400 NIT Low Power 100% SRGB screen, with no physical damage, original charger and box, pretty happy with the purchase, what you think about it?

Will you be doing testing and repairing videos? These thinkpad videos are awesome.

T570 is king...

Nice! Just got the yoga gen 3 i7-8th with the HDR display, 8gb ram, 128 nvme, 98% battery, how did I do? £120???

Wait you mean this x1 carbon laptop lasts for 45 hours damn. Its amazing. Pls gift me one of your unusable laptop so i can be using it for my project and side work 🙏

It's crazy how this video popped into my recommended. I was troubleshooting my surface go last night because the screen went completely static and crazy. I had to DDU my drivers just to get the screen to work. I started looking at ebay to get a new laptop, I thought about the thinkpad since they are so easy to upgrade. Thank you for coming into my recommended!

@cephacore I bought a lenovo thinkpad x380 i5 8gen with 8 gb wifi ac and fibocom card for 70 euro in good condition. Seller sold it as Chromebook. Is it a good deal? I ordered a 1tb nvme and a new styles only.

The problem with the BIOS passwords is all the while everything works fine you don't have to worry but if you wind up needing to format the drive and do a fresh windows install one of the things that is often locked is the boot menu so you can't boot from USB. Especially if you want to install Linux and have to go into BIOS settings and turn off secureboot or something.

got five t480 thinkpads for about 25$ a piece in different conditions, and i managed to build a working one out of them

I've got a T14 1st gen and I hate it. Thinking of getting another T14, lol.

Oh man what a deal you had. I wish i could get something like that to upgrade my T470 Anyway good content mate! :)

I have accumulated many Lenovo laptops model release around 2018 to 2019 because the parts is relatively new and still can last for 3-5 year of use. Most of them come with NVMe, thunderbolt 3, or type C charging ports which you can buy 65W PD charger at Aliexpress easily and cheap (ignore those before 2017). If you are trying to run those laptops for serious gaming and video editing, I think you will be disappointed. If you are using those for general purposes like web and browser kind of work, that will be great. But I think if you think of those laptops as collectable and give you pleasure, you won't be disappointed. I have few suggestions. 1.) set your price to under $100, no need to go over that. Save your money and few years later, you can buy 2022 laptops, and if it die, won't break your heart. 2.) If you intent to travel with it, 14" is the one to go. I suggest the following X1 yoga 3rd Gen, X1 Carbon 6G ($150), X1 Carbon 5G (you can find under $100), T490 or T490s. Chose a nice screen with touch screen 1080P. 3) Battery still can last 5-6 hours, you don't want to buy new battery (expensive, buy power banks that can give you 65W, if you really needed, many choices today for under $30). 4.) Don't buy something that you need to replace parts (Other than add RAM or NVMe). At the end, it will cost you too much and if laptop die, all money wasted. There are also P70 (that cost more than $250, too heavy) but a great workstation laptop. You can get a mini desktop and a 24" monitor. For those 14" laptops that I mentioned. Every time I touch it, I feel great. Be patient, just pay attention to the new listing. I consider the best buy when I saw two T490s (with 1080P and touch screen) for sale (No MVMe) and total cost after 250G MVMe is $112 each. Great price. Just be patient.

Was able to snag a X1 yoga gen 4 with an i7 and 2k display for under 170 usd recently. Been experimented on it mainly as a side machine. Reason why it was cheap was there was a dent on it and the backplate was missing some parts but overall not half bad

I just picked up a T480s, i7 8650u, 16gb, 512gb, 1080 touchscreen for £185 shipped. Can't wait for it to arrive.

Looking to get a t480s soon. What should I look for when buying it?

I Wonder Can Fix With Flashing Fresh And New Bios?

What I was thinking was Ether the seller didn’t have a charger or the charger the seller used was faulty

A grand for a T-Series ThinkPad is a bargain brand new or not. Man I want to sub to this channel but I just don't like the fact that this ThinkPad was compared to a Chromebook or ThinkPad or Chromebook killer for the title. S or not, it's not a Chromebook killer or even in the category to even kill a Chromebook. Lol yes I am I think series fanboy.

I hope you cleaned out that dust from the fan! That would explain the high temps too!

Don't need an exact replacement. Usually i personally will look on panellook, compare for the best panel in that style (lanes, edp or lvds, and tab/tabless) and go with that. I was even able to put a 15.6 in OLED into a friends laptop despite it only coming with a 1440p 120hz display.

I’m sub for “Dinkpad”

swap the LTE chip card for a NVMe and then its maxed out

Bro bought a P14s gen 2 a month ago for 400, did not have a broken screen. No regrets, my favorite computer by far.

Lol dude gets it for an inexpensive price then complains to the seller for a faulty ssd 😂

No way in hell, this laptop cost wooping 3000 USD in any freaking year....At max 1400 USD plus any display cost around 200 to 400 USD to repair at any shop

Can't really advocate p14s QC. Gone through 4 (mix of gen 2 and gen 3) in the last 18 months. Mix of issues from overheating, display adapter based BSODs, one would crash if I placed pressure (holding 1handed) to the left of the touchpad. Several colleagues still operate theirs upside down (plugged into external monitor) to prevent overheating. Gen 3 specific issue was atrocious battery life. I.e. 100-0% in less than an hour.

In EU it would sell for 2800$ used

That's what I always hated about new/hype electronics, give it a couple of years and you'll get them for 10-20% of their initial price

I really like the blue tack hack. 👍 If you fold some cardboard and put it at the end of the SSD it will stop the drive from disconnecting. All the best.

i have the same. 200€(so it cost a bit more but the screen is wasn't broken )

Great video, this is the kind of action and love these devices deserve. Its quite common to find perfectly working first gen L14s with Ryzen PRO 4650U processors here with minor faults for 150-200€ and I find it the best bang for buck imaginable.

it corst 2200 not 3 K, the title is a lie. nice try.

lol this is the laptop(bought new) im using for college currently sophomore

Does it Icaros, FreeBSD, Haiku, or Redox OS?

got exited then saw the cpu, damn, how can 4 cores 8 threads be considered a workstation pc ? can hardly run any VMs on that. are there any other thinkpads with high core count cpus and upgradeable ram ? for 200/250 £ definitely cant complain though it certainly is a bargain !

Who the fuck would pay 3000$ for a 4 fucking core CPU in 2021? 😂

It's amazing how you can hit 65 wpm just pecking at the keyboard with two fingers! 😂 I can't do that with all of mine. Anyways, another good video! BTW do you only post succesful refurbing/repairing videos where the deal is truly worth it? Don't you have cases where things go south or don't work out and are kinda duped? (Like the screen thing in this one). Makes me think if it's just the others who are overpaying or not getting the deals.

bro i m using thinkpad e450 with i3 5005 u with 8 gig dual channel which is pretty good in all work and give 9hours backup on inta (i tested, dont ask why) good for average minecraft java 1.21.1 (fps~190) something. thinkpad are build different remember

You know what I don't get? The price! And from a reputable seller. Unless its just an unnoticed auction. I got a Thinkpad x270 around 3 years back, 3.5 maybe, which is basically identical to an x260. Mine was with the basic i5-6200u, 8 GB RAM and 180 GB SSD, with a low-res HD 1366x768 TN screen (which I don't mind), without a backlit KB, for I almost 300 £ then. Got it from a refurbisher, it was the cheapest online price available, I looked (eBay, cEx). Then it had been almost 4 years since launch. (Currently it is almost 7.5 years since launch, which started at around 800$ or 600 £). My question is, why would the price only halve for the first part of the above 7.5 yr time period, and then suddenly collapse, getting 4-5x lesser?

X1 Carbon from then or a X260/270, what do you think? I think the latter takes the cake, looks, form factor and future-proofing wise (that is barely enough ram these days, no?). The tapered edges look decidedly non-thinkpad. Boooooo! (But not for the price lol, I'd buy 10!) BTW great video! And I echo others' sentiments abt your channel! I can't believe it didn't have 500 subs like 1 month back! And now it's already 1500+... Gotta check out other videos of yours, since when you've done it and learn the pattern, so that I can have my own little quirky weird nerdy tech channel that's loved by niche people some day. Don't come across a lot of hardware where I live though, so that's a bummer. But maybe will start with what I have and use, and maybe also talk about my workflow with the software tools I use for study/work, etc.

Hmm... you might want to try another panel, that line is likely indicative of a sporadic panel manufacturing defect; I'd bet a 14" FHD panel from a T450/460 would work, and you could choose a better panel vendor as well. For instance, just today I harvested the 1920x1200 CCFL panel from a Dell Latitude D830 I found dumpster-diving to upgrade the 1680x1050 panel in my $29.99 Goodwill-find T500. I had to disassemble the screens themselves to swap the metal housings due to differing mounts, otherwise once that was done it was _plug & play._ The panel has some slight scratches/blemishes, but it's not easily visible and those panels are getting crazy-expensive on eBay, so I'm happy with how things worked out overall. Luckily, those newer LED backlit models like your L450 use are really cheap to manufacture and abundant to source... I reckon a used pull 15.6" FHD panel would set you back $15-25 (vs $100-150 for 15.4" CCFL). Even if it doesn't work for that specific series (there's a chance they crippled the ribbon cable to only output HD/HD+ and not FHD), it's low risk and you can always repair another device with a broken panel at a later time. _shrugs_ I say, "do it."

I unfortunately paid that much for mine

I just bought a used T570. $100 delivered, including a power supply. Not as well-made as earlier Thinkpads. But I’m getting a lot of work done for $100.

In my country the t470p is more expensive than the t480...

My first thinkpad. Still use it to this day. Got mine off eBay for 80 bucks

always meant to grab one of those used.. I LOVE my thinkpads, never been able to justify the new price on um though.