Every video watched is equivalent to 2 hours not scrolling through ThinkPads on eBay. Great video. Not that you've asked, but your presentation skills keep getting better with every video -- very personable.
Thanks for watching, I appreciate the kind words. I am trying to make an effort to make it a bit more presentable. Great to see people are recognising it🙂
Superb video and I have subscribed. Yes, the yellow main power cube disease affected many X 200 series machines and the diddy size of them meant that the input had to go under the m'board and a bracket and 2 small screws eventually worked loose. Glue guns were popular for a fix but, later, Lenovo issued an adapter allowing for their spade connector. A medical friend won't part with his classic X220 with the older keyboard and it remains as fast as much more modern laptops with 8GB RAM and a rather superior SSD on W10 Pro. Batteries and both types of keyboard are available in the UK, even with a backlit version of the chiclet sort. The ThinkLight can be made brighter using a modern LED and lights the area around the keyboard too. This is handy for busy doctors on night shifts. For some reason, these X 200 series machines are great survivors.
I have a trick for getting rid of pen (biro) marks on an LCD display. Use a drop of clean engine oil on the mark and wipe it clean with a cotton rag. You may have to rub the oil with a rag for a little bit. When I say clean engine oil I really mean the stuff you add to a car engine, like 5W30 or 5W20 oil. After the mark is gone you can use glass cleaner to clean off the oily slick.
I got a T420 last year for free which i upgraded and use to this day without problems. I even upgraded the CPU to a Quadcore (i7 2860QM) so i can use it with event stronger Tasks.
I need to do that. If I do, can I play Minecraft versions past 1.16? Apparently they started requiring a more updated graphics ability around that time.
A year or two ago I found an untested X230 on ebay. Got it for around 15€ just to see. Gave it ram, an ssd and 2 new keycaps. Now its stitting right next to me. Wonderful machine. Those cheap and easy to fix finds are amazing :)
Absolutely amazing. It's my daily drive laptop. Installed coreboot (using 1vyrain). With 16gb RAM it handles all the tabs I throw at it and still no problems with a few other apps open (even electron ones). I want to do the higher res screen mod, since using freecad on the lowres is horribly cramped. Besides that I just dont see a point wasting my money to get a replacement for it. I technically have a P50, but that sits around unused when I dont need the dGpu. The X230 is just so much lighter...
Nice Video once again, aaah the ole Thinkpad, they never let you down, i daily drive the following, yes, i use all of them daily...Thinkpad T520, Thinkpad T430, Thinkpad T540p, Thinkpad x201, Thinkpad x1 Carbon all running Linux...Greetings from Cape Town
@@cephacoreI highly recommended the keyboard mod, as I love the feel of the old-school Thinkpad keyboards. I also maxed out the RAM to 16gb and upgraded the panel to IPS, and the screen is crisp and clear. To add, I have it running a debloated version of Windows 10 and Small Damn Linux 2024 on a USB flash drive.
@@RCfromtheNYC this depends on which manufacturer made the keyboard you get. I had a T400 and the keyboard was not very good. you also lose some functionality so personally I wouldn't bother. The keyboard on the X230 I picked up recently is almost as good as the T42 I had a while ago. The X230 is the last decent thinkpad. I got mine with 2 X240s and I'll be avoiding those like the plague. running Tiny10 (a further stripped enterprise LTSC copy) it barely breaks a sweat. it will happily run at 2.98Ghz (throttlestop, clock multiplier 30), something which I discovered by accident, as unless you have a working battery or a 90W charger, it will limit to 1.20Ghz. mine came working, though it has a few faults, such as a damaged back cover, missing feet, a battery that failed quickly, and was missing the F1 and ESC keys, though mostly those are simple, easy to correct faults. It is miles better than the Dell Latitude D630 I was using for notetaking earlier this year as the keyboard stiffness and plastic type are much more preferable - the thinkpad having moderately stiff keys and textured plastic as opposed to stiff keys and painted plastic palmrest on the dell. I've tried all sorts, some machines being 25-30, but the X230 has to be one of the best modern machines out there. I'm not really sure what the fuss is with the keyboard mod, but this is just my personal opinion. It would have to be my 2nd/3rd favourites, second only to my Toshiba Satellite Pro 480CDT (thicker than, and about as heavy as a paving slab, but reliable and good for DOS gaming, still usable now with the USB mass storage driver), the thinkpad T42 (a little flimsy and prone to strange issues, but unless you are rough, it will live for a long time, unless you have ATI graphics, but with a very good keyboard, docks with PCI slots being availible, and a proper classic thinkpad keyboard it's still a good option if you just need to write things down, though WiFi was optional and can be useful sometimes.)
And here I found a Thinkpad t430 for $10. All it simply had was loose RAM and a missing drive caddy. It's still missing the caddy but I wedged some paper in with the SSD and it's holding it in pretty good. It has an i5-3230m, which is socketed, meaning that if I could, I would upgrade it to an i7, but still is pretty fast for what it is. Most people don't like the newer keyboard but I personally think it still feels pretty good to type on. It's running Windows 7 right now and I have no plan on putting Linux.
Great video on an ebay purchase. You did a good job on replacing that charging port. I was surprised that the laptop was still working. Keep up the fine job that you are doing. Greetings from across the pond.
I have an X230 in my collection and it's perfect.. with the x220 keeb, that is.. 🥰 (X230 disassembly is very intuitive and quite easy.. something ThinkPads have typically been applauded for.)
I´ll always not understand how people sell used stuff without at least cleaning it. I´ve been selling used stuff online since 1999 and I ALWAYS clean everything very well before taking pictures and posting. Simples stuff really, but some people just don´t think about it.
i see you have bought a syringe of mx4 thermal paste, very good! I also highly reccomend you buying a bottle of non-alcohol screen cleaner. It lasts for a freaking long time since you only use like 2 sprays to clean a screen, and they clean reaaly well and most important, effortlessly.
Hi, thanks for watching! Yes it was about time to ditch the AliExpress thermal paste haha 😂. Forgot to mention I used eucalyptus oil spray to clean the outer body and some cleaning wipes. Did a pretty good job.
15:12 think light is more of a mini desk lamp than just a backlight. I usually use the think light more often than just keyboard backlight when studying or work 🐼
I have an x100e ThinkPad with a weak atom processor that only costed me $5, I have tried many different distros trying to get it to have some potential, but have not had any luck. I will be trying PopOS to see if that would make it any better!!
I got one of these after it was unclaimed at a lost & found, it pretty much broke down on me after a few years of use. Build quality is nothing like the IBM ones
X230 can handle 2 drives. 1) 2,5" 2) mSata instead of wwan / 3g modem. I made some dualboot x230 s for win7/win10 as diagnostic devices for car diagnostics.
Very good video. I'm surprised you didn't clean the interior before repairing it. Those vents at the back looked clogged with dust. I'd also want to try to reinforce that right-side back corner where there's a crack in the hinge, because that's only going to get worse over time.
This is from back when Lenovo made good laptops. I wish they still made them in this style, they are much more robust than modern laptops. It's just a pity they can't stand up to modern computing requirements.
I like these Lenovo laptops. Build quality is excellent. I just checked, a new battery and keyboard (not secondhand), will set you back about $67 or 70 Euro in my country. You can probably get it cheaper in the US or EU.
If you replace the keyboard, see if you can track down an x220 keyboard. That is the old style keyboard which is *so* much nicer to type on. You lose the backlight, but it fits and is excellent. Look it up. I have had an x220 for like 5-6 years now. I love it. I need to replace the battery again, but it is just an underpowered little dipshit (mine is the 2nd gen i3), but for basic browsing, terminal-ing into things, general mayhem, it's great. And the typing feel and just the solidity of it is something I miss when handling a more modern laptop.
If you aren't going to send the video out to a monitor then it makes no sense to pull in video at a higher res than the laptop's screen. You can't see it anyways but you are still having to process it.
$15 for an x230 is absolutely wild. In my country I have never seen them below $80 in all my years - even ones in really trash condition. You lot must be tripping over them every time you go out.
Thank you for this video! I also would like to buy a T410 for my coding and music prod hobby, because currently I don't have my own laptop and always have to ask my friends to use their PCs etc. So, what if I'll buy a used T410 for 50 bucks? It will be enough for coding and music prod?
I am very pro older Thinkpads. But these x230 are no go for me nowadays. Too bulky, with usually very poor battery life and disastrous LCD screens. Most of these machines have also dual core i5s with low cpu speeds which are just too slow for Windows these days. Maybe Win10 LTSC, if you want something modern. Some Linix distribution might be better idea.
I still use two t530 Thinkpads though, the one with i5 only for light browsing in my warehouse. 2nd one has i7 though, this one is still capable enough for normal office work.
Agreed it is too old for normal use but still, it has a use! Can imagine doing some retro gaming on it. The dual core ain't the best but should be sufficient for basic tasks.
hahahah i remember having one of these back in the day, i used to play minecraft on it and it runned pretty great tbh! (though it costed me around 130 bucks at that time lmao)
for my use case I could totally daily use that laptop if it had 16gb of RAM ddr3s are cheap now anyways, these kinds of laptops are still being sold in facebook marketplace in my country for around 100-200usd so it is really not a good deal, also you could use Windows 10 IoT LTSC it has support until 2032 downgraded my PC with it from windows 11
They always disappoint. 🥀 The lenovo pads are always stripped down business-sect and scuttled to death and always require like a hundred dollars in parts and you need an army of M screw kits cause they're always missing screws. And the old IBM pads are so horribly designed it's hard to find one that doesn't need full reball or chips replaced.. AANDThen! you need to treat them with extreme paranoia// cutting up and braising your own copper cooling solutions for them because they're all from the age when oems didn't think to put heatsinks on secondary chipsets. I haaaaate thinkpad projects and wish people wouldn't suggest them as secondhand machines for kids. Now that mine work though. . . 😅 Nope. Get your own, I fixed them they're mine!
Programming takes almost no resources, so if you only want to do that (and experimenting with linux) something like a Raspi 3 or 4 might be a better choice since you can also hook up stuff to the GPIO pins and program/experiment with them.
@@shadowx5985 Well, learning about them is only one internet search away ;) And unless you're really lucky with finding such a cheap laptop like in the video, a raspi with some accessories (micro-SD card, power supply) is most likely cheaper. The only benefit of a laptop is that you already get a screen, keyboard and mouse/touchpad with it.
That's luck i say, What if those 15 dollor thing hasca broken motherboard. Yeah thinkpads are upgradable. But i dont think you can replace its motherboard
Nice find. I'm a Thinkpad fanboy. My wife and I have T520s in addition to desktop PCs and we are even using a T420 as a poor mans home server with a big HDD stuffed into the DVD bay. The only upgrade I've done is replace the HDDs with and SSDs.
@@cephacore I have to admit I have thin ThinkPad envy. Being retired don't have to carry it around too much. Mainly use it for Zoom calls as it is the only PC with a camera.
my advice would be if you ever feel it being sluggish on pop_OS when preforming somethings, i would try going with a more lightweight desktop environment (pop uses gnome by default, which is the 2nd most heavy linux DE (with KDE being the most heavy)), such as xfce or cinnamon, i personally use ultramarine xfce edition on one of my chromebooks and it's pretty alright.
The good thing is, the docks are cheap and you could get a power to USB c adapter to run it on a battery pack or in car. I have one here and it performs very well with Linux Mint.
@cephacore I should note that archinstall script breaks on some applications, so try to spend your time installing it manually. It's not like Gentoo, where you have to compile literally everything, but you'll reformat your drive more often times than not. If you find a good tutorial and read Arch wiki, then your install is going to be a breeze.
MICROSOFT, ARE YOU WATCHING?. STOP THE MADNESS! EITHER KEEP WIN10 ALIVE OR FIX WINDOWS TO ALLOW WELL-MADE OLDER TECH TO USE WINDOWS. SNAP OUT OF IT AND LISTEN TO YOUR CLIENTS.
Every video watched is equivalent to 2 hours not scrolling through ThinkPads on eBay. Great video. Not that you've asked, but your presentation skills keep getting better with every video -- very personable.
Thanks for watching, I appreciate the kind words. I am trying to make an effort to make it a bit more presentable. Great to see people are recognising it🙂
Superb video and I have subscribed.
Yes, the yellow main power cube disease affected many X 200 series machines and the diddy size of them meant that the input had to go under the m'board and a bracket and 2 small screws eventually worked loose. Glue guns were popular for a fix but, later, Lenovo issued an adapter allowing for their spade connector.
A medical friend won't part with his classic X220 with the older keyboard and it remains as fast as much more modern laptops with 8GB RAM and a rather superior SSD on W10 Pro.
Batteries and both types of keyboard are available in the UK, even with a backlit version of the chiclet sort.
The ThinkLight can be made brighter using a modern LED and lights the area around the keyboard too. This is handy for busy doctors on night shifts.
For some reason, these X 200 series machines are great survivors.
Thanks for watching, that's very interesting. Some great info! 👍
it's not as fast as modern laptops, wishful thinking!
I have a trick for getting rid of pen (biro) marks on an LCD display. Use a drop of clean engine oil on the mark and wipe it clean with a cotton rag. You may have to rub the oil with a rag for a little bit. When I say clean engine oil I really mean the stuff you add to a car engine, like 5W30 or 5W20 oil. After the mark is gone you can use glass cleaner to clean off the oily slick.
Very interesting, would that interfere with the screen coating?
@@cephacore The engine oil doesn't react with most plastics. I've been using it for some time without issues.
I got a T420 last year for free which i upgraded and use to this day without problems. I even upgraded the CPU to a Quadcore (i7 2860QM) so i can use it with event stronger Tasks.
Nice!
Completely forgot you can upgrade the CPU in those, truly the best designed laptop out there.
I need to do that. If I do, can I play Minecraft versions past 1.16? Apparently they started requiring a more updated graphics ability around that time.
A year or two ago I found an untested X230 on ebay. Got it for around 15€ just to see. Gave it ram, an ssd and 2 new keycaps. Now its stitting right next to me. Wonderful machine. Those cheap and easy to fix finds are amazing :)
Thats amazing, similar price to what I got it for.. How's it holding up today?
Absolutely amazing. It's my daily drive laptop. Installed coreboot (using 1vyrain). With 16gb RAM it handles all the tabs I throw at it and still no problems with a few other apps open (even electron ones). I want to do the higher res screen mod, since using freecad on the lowres is horribly cramped. Besides that I just dont see a point wasting my money to get a replacement for it. I technically have a P50, but that sits around unused when I dont need the dGpu. The X230 is just so much lighter...
Currently wahtching this on my Thinkpad T440p from 2013!
Ayyy what a beast. Love those old chunky thinkpads!
Amazingly underrated channel reminds me of budget builds
Thanks for the kind words that really means a lot. Glad you enjoyed 😄
Nice Video once again, aaah the ole Thinkpad, they never let you down, i daily drive the following, yes, i use all of them daily...Thinkpad T520, Thinkpad T430, Thinkpad T540p, Thinkpad x201, Thinkpad x1 Carbon all running Linux...Greetings from Cape Town
Thanks for watching! Great to see you using these aging pieces of tech.
I got an x230 and did all of the mods I've read about, including the 'classic keyboard' mod which draws looks from techies whenever I travel.
Might have to do that, especially since the keyboard is a bit knackered. Part Two perhaps
@@cephacoreI highly recommended the keyboard mod, as I love the feel of the old-school Thinkpad keyboards. I also maxed out the RAM to 16gb and upgraded the panel to IPS, and the screen is crisp and clear.
To add, I have it running a debloated version of Windows 10 and Small Damn Linux 2024 on a USB flash drive.
@@RCfromtheNYC this depends on which manufacturer made the keyboard you get. I had a T400 and the keyboard was not very good. you also lose some functionality so personally I wouldn't bother.
The keyboard on the X230 I picked up recently is almost as good as the T42 I had a while ago.
The X230 is the last decent thinkpad. I got mine with 2 X240s and I'll be avoiding those like the plague. running Tiny10 (a further stripped enterprise LTSC copy) it barely breaks a sweat. it will happily run at 2.98Ghz (throttlestop, clock multiplier 30), something which I discovered by accident, as unless you have a working battery or a 90W charger, it will limit to 1.20Ghz. mine came working, though it has a few faults, such as a damaged back cover, missing feet, a battery that failed quickly, and was missing the F1 and ESC keys, though mostly those are simple, easy to correct faults.
It is miles better than the Dell Latitude D630 I was using for notetaking earlier this year as the keyboard stiffness and plastic type are much more preferable - the thinkpad having moderately stiff keys and textured plastic as opposed to stiff keys and painted plastic palmrest on the dell.
I've tried all sorts, some machines being 25-30, but the X230 has to be one of the best modern machines out there. I'm not really sure what the fuss is with the keyboard mod, but this is just my personal opinion. It would have to be my 2nd/3rd favourites, second only to my Toshiba Satellite Pro 480CDT (thicker than, and about as heavy as a paving slab, but reliable and good for DOS gaming, still usable now with the USB mass storage driver), the thinkpad T42 (a little flimsy and prone to strange issues, but unless you are rough, it will live for a long time, unless you have ATI graphics, but with a very good keyboard, docks with PCI slots being availible, and a proper classic thinkpad keyboard it's still a good option if you just need to write things down, though WiFi was optional and can be useful sometimes.)
And here I found a Thinkpad t430 for $10. All it simply had was loose RAM and a missing drive caddy. It's still missing the caddy but I wedged some paper in with the SSD and it's holding it in pretty good. It has an i5-3230m, which is socketed, meaning that if I could, I would upgrade it to an i7, but still is pretty fast for what it is. Most people don't like the newer keyboard but I personally think it still feels pretty good to type on. It's running Windows 7 right now and I have no plan on putting Linux.
Wow, that's an excellent deal. You got very lucky!
Great video on an ebay purchase. You did a good job on replacing that charging port. I was surprised that the laptop was still working. Keep up the fine job that you are doing. Greetings from across the pond.
Thanks for watching! Yeah I got very lucky 😄
x230 is a brick of a laptop but will never let you down! personal experience with these.
Yep, they're excellent machines imo
Great video as usual 👌
Thanks. Glad you enjoyed!
I have an X230 in my collection and it's perfect.. with the x220 keeb, that is.. 🥰
(X230 disassembly is very intuitive and quite easy.. something ThinkPads have typically been applauded for.)
Might make a part two and properly pimp out this X230, it's too good.
I´ll always not understand how people sell used stuff without at least cleaning it. I´ve been selling used stuff online since 1999 and I ALWAYS clean everything very well before taking pictures and posting. Simples stuff really, but some people just don´t think about it.
Agreed, I could never sell something dirty. It's common courtesy to at least sell it in presentable condition.
i see you have bought a syringe of mx4 thermal paste, very good! I also highly reccomend you buying a bottle of non-alcohol screen cleaner. It lasts for a freaking long time since you only use like 2 sprays to clean a screen, and they clean reaaly well and most important, effortlessly.
Hi, thanks for watching! Yes it was about time to ditch the AliExpress thermal paste haha 😂. Forgot to mention I used eucalyptus oil spray to clean the outer body and some cleaning wipes. Did a pretty good job.
did the same thing last year but got a more recent model, a t470. came with win10 pro, reimaged with lmde. no complaints, it works well.
Nice! That sounds interesting, glad it worked well.
15:12 think light is more of a mini desk lamp than just a backlight. I usually use the think light more often than just keyboard backlight when studying or work 🐼
I have an x100e ThinkPad with a weak atom processor that only costed me $5, I have tried many different distros trying to get it to have some potential, but have not had any luck. I will be trying PopOS to see if that would make it any better!!
Try a minimal Arch install with XFCE desktop environment. IMO the best option for low end systems that is still very usable
Good luck! Hope you get it working.
No way,
its my thinkpad x220 😂
I got one of these after it was unclaimed at a lost & found, it pretty much broke down on me after a few years of use. Build quality is nothing like the IBM ones
IBM were known to be robust and still are. All my IBM thinkpads still work surprisingly.
I love the ThinkPad. So tantalizingly sexy, yet so refined in it's exquisite business attire. A stunning classic. Basically the Don Draper of laptops.
babe wakeup cephacore just made another video
thanks for watching 😅👍
The X230 is still my main Laptop and it still runs like a champ with Linux
That's incredible, it is very modular which I quite like
W video brother. Underrated
Thanks bro 🙌
You could always try Windows 10 ioT & then run Chris Titus' tools. I bet it'd run great.
I'm really glad we've moved away from laptop designs where the keyboard needs to be removed to take the bottom cover off, that was so horrible.
Made me realize how broke I am daily driving a refurbished T430s if Ivy Bridge ThinkPads are "E-Waste" in 2024.
my favourite ThinkPad ever! great video! x
No wonder people still praise them, they're awesome. Thanks for watching 😄
X230 can handle 2 drives. 1) 2,5" 2) mSata instead of wwan / 3g modem. I made some dualboot x230 s for win7/win10 as diagnostic devices for car diagnostics.
Wow I didn't know that. Thanks for the suggestion.
@cephacore t430 and other "x3x " series lenovos are capable..
For the money.. these machines along with the older T series are unbeatable for a cheap daily machine. These are also still built to be serviceable.
Agreed, although the X230 is a bit of a pain to get into.. upgrading RAM and SSD is by far the easiest I've seen on a relatively modern laptop.
Very good video. I'm surprised you didn't clean the interior before repairing it. Those vents at the back looked clogged with dust. I'd also want to try to reinforce that right-side back corner where there's a crack in the hinge, because that's only going to get worse over time.
I did give it a quick clean inside before putting it all back together. Forgot to mention that my bad :/
@@cephacore I feel better that you did! Sorry for editing my first comment after the fact. :)
Nice work, a wonder that battery has anything left after 12 years!
Incredible stuff, couldn't believe it also 😅
This is from back when Lenovo made good laptops. I wish they still made them in this style, they are much more robust than modern laptops. It's just a pity they can't stand up to modern computing requirements.
Yep this era is simply unmatched. Upgradability was defo in their conscience unlike today.
This video sent me to ebay looking for old think pads. I don't even need one but for ~15 quid it's damn tempting for a wee project lol
Go for it! That's exactly how I start off, sometimes you can get lucky 👌
I like these Lenovo laptops. Build quality is excellent. I just checked, a new battery and keyboard (not secondhand), will set you back about $67 or 70 Euro in my country. You can probably get it cheaper in the US or EU.
Yeah the used market for these parts is mental. Better just to get a faulty one and salvage the parts.
If you replace the keyboard, see if you can track down an x220 keyboard. That is the old style keyboard which is *so* much nicer to type on. You lose the backlight, but it fits and is excellent. Look it up.
I have had an x220 for like 5-6 years now. I love it. I need to replace the battery again, but it is just an underpowered little dipshit (mine is the 2nd gen i3), but for basic browsing, terminal-ing into things, general mayhem, it's great. And the typing feel and just the solidity of it is something I miss when handling a more modern laptop.
Many people have mentioned the X220 keyboard, perhaps a part two on this video 🤔
If you aren't going to send the video out to a monitor then it makes no sense to pull in video at a higher res than the laptop's screen. You can't see it anyways but you are still having to process it.
Biohazard! Other than that what a bargain. Subbed by the way nice video.
Indeed! Thanks for watching 🙌
what was the command you used in the terminal to check the battery health ?
Open terminal
Then type upower -e
Then type upower -i /org/freedesktop/UPower/devices/battery_BAT0
i have a x230 with 16gb ram and 500gb ssd. That thing flies under Linux Mint XFCE
I have a X240, and it's still a day to day usable machine. I'm more than please about these ThinkPad.. Two batteries ! Difficult to do better.
The X240s brought in the dual battery's with arguably better battery life than the X230s. Might take a look at one.
I still love my x230 😍
Same 😁
Ive never seen a linux distro running mc that cant detect the cpu model, weird bug 17:39
Try coreboot open source BIOS replacement on it?
Interesting..
$15 for an x230 is absolutely wild. In my country I have never seen them below $80 in all my years - even ones in really trash condition. You lot must be tripping over them every time you go out.
I agree, for it to be working is a miracle. Couldn't ask for more 😄
So dope. Enjoy dude
Thanks! Will do!
idk if you knew but thinkpads are immortal
Yeah I shouldn't underestimate them 😂
bios password will not show if bios is reset
Thank you for this video! I also would like to buy a T410 for my coding and music prod hobby, because currently I don't have my own laptop and always have to ask my friends to use their PCs etc. So, what if I'll buy a used T410 for 50 bucks? It will be enough for coding and music prod?
Hmm perhaps light coding like Python or HTML.. they are getting quite old now.
I am very pro older Thinkpads. But these x230 are no go for me nowadays. Too bulky, with usually very poor battery life and disastrous LCD screens. Most of these machines have also dual core i5s with low cpu speeds which are just too slow for Windows these days. Maybe Win10 LTSC, if you want something modern. Some Linix distribution might be better idea.
I still use two t530 Thinkpads though, the one with i5 only for light browsing in my warehouse. 2nd one has i7 though, this one is still capable enough for normal office work.
Agreed it is too old for normal use but still, it has a use! Can imagine doing some retro gaming on it. The dual core ain't the best but should be sufficient for basic tasks.
Put windows 11 on it with Rufus it allows you to by pass the ram and Tpm requirements
hmm, did you replace the battery ?
The cheapest used battery at the time was £35.. more than twice the price of the laptop
@cephacore ah i see, if only we could replace the 18650 battery directly, i bet there is how to guide in the instructables
Try Chrome OS Flex i think will really good for this machine
Will have a look, thanks 🙏
hahahah i remember having one of these back in the day, i used to play minecraft on it and it runned pretty great tbh! (though it costed me around 130 bucks at that time lmao)
it you use the h264 ify extension it will probably do 4k
for my use case I could totally daily use that laptop if it had 16gb of RAM ddr3s are cheap now anyways, these kinds of laptops are still being sold in facebook marketplace in my country for around 100-200usd so it is really not a good deal, also you could use Windows 10 IoT LTSC it has support until 2032 downgraded my PC with it from windows 11
Can't you use Windows 10 LTSC 2021?
Never really used that tbh, is it supported longer than normal W10?
I can play gta5 on mine. hd4000 was awesome for the time.
That's incredible! Thanks for sharing mate :)
Same on a T430s but it's barely playable after they added BattlEye anticheat which lost me 10+ fps.
POP OS is not good because is not updated, use cachyos whit KDE that work on all olds pc and is fast too.
Have you tried to enable "FN lock" and then press f1? That's kinda obvious, still maybe...
Yep, tried. I plan to replace the keyboard soon as the scroll button is also broken.
They always disappoint. 🥀
The lenovo pads are always stripped down business-sect and scuttled to death and always require like a hundred dollars in parts and you need an army of M screw kits cause they're always missing screws.
And the old IBM pads are so horribly designed it's hard to find one that doesn't need full reball or chips replaced.. AANDThen! you need to treat them with extreme paranoia// cutting up and braising your own copper cooling solutions for them because they're all from the age when oems didn't think to put heatsinks on secondary chipsets.
I haaaaate thinkpad projects and wish people wouldn't suggest them as secondhand machines for kids.
Now that mine work though. . . 😅 Nope. Get your own, I fixed them they're mine!
pc:windows 7
button:win 8(.1)/win 10
thanks for the free windows 7 key
bro can buy an x220 for programming inn python, C, C++ and Bash Scripting and for Learning Linux or what you recommend x220 or x230
X230 as it is a bit faster, and usually cost the same.
Programming takes almost no resources, so if you only want to do that (and experimenting with linux) something like a Raspi 3 or 4 might be a better choice since you can also hook up stuff to the GPIO pins and program/experiment with them.
@@NiyaKouya but i don't know anything about raspberry Pi
@@shadowx5985 Well, learning about them is only one internet search away ;) And unless you're really lucky with finding such a cheap laptop like in the video, a raspi with some accessories (micro-SD card, power supply) is most likely cheaper. The only benefit of a laptop is that you already get a screen, keyboard and mouse/touchpad with it.
good video, i like watch
Thank you very much👍
if i find it someday wouls you like a 2009 toshiba sat laptop
That's luck i say,
What if those 15 dollor thing hasca broken motherboard. Yeah thinkpads are upgradable. But i dont think you can replace its motherboard
Nice find. I'm a Thinkpad fanboy. My wife and I have T520s in addition to desktop PCs and we are even using a T420 as a poor mans home server with a big HDD stuffed into the DVD bay. The only upgrade I've done is replace the HDDs with and SSDs.
Those old chunky ThinkPads are great, an SSD upgrade is a must have!
@@cephacore I have to admit I have thin ThinkPad envy. Being retired don't have to carry it around too much. Mainly use it for Zoom calls as it is the only PC with a camera.
Ridiculous
I have one, easily upgradable, add 16gb ram, and replace the keyboard.
Will do, though didn't know it could take 16GB. Might make an update video 👌
my school had ones simular to this
I vaguely remember my school having the X220 tablet. Such a cool laptop.
press FN + F1 key to get into bios!
Tried that, no luck. All the other F keys worked without FN
was the best laptop :)
Not so bad, but too slow for Windows 11. Probably suitable for Windows 10. Yes, Linux also. 😀 The beat cought me. 😂😂
Haha thanks for watching. Yeah, this would suit Linux far better than Windows IMO
You could probably use some WD40 to get that pen off the screen
Could do, wouldn't that strip the coating?
my advice would be if you ever feel it being sluggish on pop_OS when preforming somethings, i would try going with a more lightweight desktop environment (pop uses gnome by default, which is the 2nd most heavy linux DE (with KDE being the most heavy)), such as xfce or cinnamon, i personally use ultramarine xfce edition on one of my chromebooks and it's pretty alright.
Ah that's interesting, thanks for the info 🙏
The good thing is, the docks are cheap and you could get a power to USB c adapter to run it on a battery pack or in car.
I have one here and it performs very well with Linux Mint.
Damn, never knew you could do that. Thanks 🙏
Seeing pop os is torture to my eyes
no arch?
Not familiar with Arch, might use it in a future video :)
@cephacore I should note that archinstall script breaks on some applications, so try to spend your time installing it manually. It's not like Gentoo, where you have to compile literally everything, but you'll reformat your drive more often times than not. If you find a good tutorial and read Arch wiki, then your install is going to be a breeze.
>windows 11 is a no go
my x220 dualboots kubuntu and windows 11 lol
How can u use 2 finger and type that fast wtf 😳😳
Not sure tbh, I can achieve 80+ on a mechanical keyboard.
im watching this on a laptop only 1 generation newer lol
Ah yes the X240. Might make a comparison video as they're a lot different.
ı have x220 it has better keybord then x230 tbh
MICROSOFT, ARE YOU WATCHING?. STOP THE MADNESS! EITHER KEEP WIN10 ALIVE OR FIX WINDOWS TO ALLOW WELL-MADE OLDER TECH TO USE WINDOWS. SNAP OUT OF IT AND LISTEN TO YOUR CLIENTS.
Give it me
Say the magic word
nws bro 🙏
I still have my old Core i5 laptop hanging around. It still is a good device.
give it me
come get it 🙃
test
Linux what a waste
Um is there any way I could contact you on Discord?