It is the year 2021, and your thinkpad content is unrivaled. Absolutely amazing work. (Btw, since switching to linux I've come across your channel and I've enjoying every single one of your videos, old and new, so really, amazing work.)
@@itsGuy When I had a iPhone I had a case that charged in the way and it was pretty sweet. I could also turn it off and on if I wanted to so it was kind of like a case that had a power bank which was nice at the time. Running the S9 now and I had that iPhone a long time ago.
@@justinnentwich2779 When I was in 4th grade me and my class were going on a school trip, and I sat with my best friend at the time and he told me "Look at this case, it charges the phone while I'm using it" and I was like "Dude that's crazy I wish I had one of those" after 10 minutes he said "Look it's not charging I think it broke" and I was like "Was it broken before?" and he said that it wasn't. Since we both had iPhones the battery only lasted for a couple more hours and on the ride back both of our phones were dead. Like 4 years go by and we were chatting in a Discord call and he asked me "Hey remember that iPhone case that I said charged my phone? I forgot to charge and I got embaressed to say" I laughed my ass off that it took 4 years for him to admit it
Worked last weekend, coming back from the mountains for almost like 8 hours in train and buses, on my brand new 9 cell X220 battery, Debian GNU/Linux :). It is true It was vim and ssh most of the time! I will think to buy such battery. X220 is a strong and durable laptop even by today standards! I personally run mysql, postgresql, nginx, apache, php-fpm, sometimes developing/compiling/running small graphics / OpenGL on it, etc. It is getting hot a little bit more in google-chrome / meeting, but... :) Thank you for your videos!
/g/ says it is a meme. Memepad. The only way to make it worse would be to buy one and install Linux on it. Linux is also a meme, according to /g/. Wait, you could go all the way into memes and install Arch Linux on it. Memepad with Memelinux. (I think I dislike /g/. Maybe…)
Hey Luke, I also own a X220 and have been looking into these slice batteries for a while now. Where did you purchase yours? I've had awful luck with purchasing genuine batteries and need a half way decent dealer. Did you go straight through Lenovo?
Thanks to your videos I bought a refurbished X220 instead of a new notebook. I saved a ton of money and I love this computer!!! The performance is really good, especially with an SSD and soon I'll be getting 16 GB of ram just for the hell of it.
I wouldn't recommend plugging in your ac adapter into both ports. If your laptops main battery isnt at full you could cause it to heat up significantly or break
Well at least with the CPU part they really can't do much because it intel soldering them also not good for the bottom line "we can't have people fixing there own shit"
I bought a 9 cell slice battery for my thinkpad t430 but it's not charged and won't charge after having sit in the factory for so long. Is there some way I can get it to work?
Yeah, check ebay for the cheapest deals. I bought my x220 on Amazon for $175 and I love it to death but some people have gotten better specs for fewer bucks. Mine's an i5 and came with 4 gigs RAM and a 300 gig HDD. I switched out the HDD for a 1T HDD and added 2 gigs of RAM. Not much, but those were the parts I had on hand. With Arch Linux, encrypted drive and boot, it's my favorite machine. I've got a 9 cell battery coming and an IPS panel. Will eventually invest in an SSD but I'm content with it's speed for now. Steam is the only program with any noticeable lag.
I have not heard of the Slice Battery and Charger, but will be looking for it for my T400 ThinkPad as it is working fine for me since taking Windows 10 off of it. I installed ArcaOS 5 (upgraded OS/2) on the computer and it works fine. I probably should tell the company I got it from that they should not put Windows 10 on their older computers.
When you get home, do you just plug your x220 to the dock and keep it there all the time? Do you think it is damaging for the battery to be plugged in at all times? I'd love to hear your opinion and previous experience. Thanks a lot.
Also late as this guy ^ but he’s right. Most modern laptops (not sure about older laptops) have a smart mechanism where they completely bypass the battery, making it run off the wall power directly. It’s great for getting more performance as your computer components will get power directly, instead of relying off of the battery all the time.
Well I have made the mistake of getting a new laptop. But to be honest, these things are hard to get in India. I know the smartphone market is huge here but that isn't the case for laptop and desktops. 95% of them are windows based (and are really expensive and I don't want to pay Microsoft). Only very few Dell laptops are Ubuntu based and I got one on sale on which I am running Manjaro now, after I am confident about it, I will put LARBS in it. I have noticed that my average use on Manjaro consumes 6-7Whr of energy out of my 41Whr battery. So it lasts for about 6 hours or something. What is your average power consumption on your hardware-software config?
@@rentristandelacruz Finally somebody who replied to what I was actually asking about. So why is it the case that I am getting relatively longer screen time? Luke has the same screen time as you do on Arch. Is it possible that the processors or other components you use are more power hungry? Also, I have used TLP, thermald and PowerTop for my power management
I've never known anyone who actually used those laptop caddy/bases. There's something so sad about those things sitting around with no computer. I wish they were like a portion of a modular/parallel computer system. Like by plugging in your laptop, you've seamlessly combined the computational power in to a single system. Like a hotplugging parallel computer. Anyway, just saying that's where my mind always goes when I see laptop caddies.
I have ThinkPad T440 and I try battery life on some OS. It run (idle) about 9 hours on Windows 7, 7h on Windows 10, 6h on Linux Mint, and 7h on Fedora Core 27. Can You give some tips how extend battery life by setting Linux. I want to check Arch Linux in future.
What are you mean "nice"? Most of modern laptops are disposable, not not suitable for repair, shit. This also applies new thinkpads. X220(230), T420(430) good cheap option for purchase.
Great video. I'm picking up an X230 today. Going to be running Fedora 30 with i3wm. Any idea what a new 6 cell battery might get in terms hours? I'll mostly be reading online docs, some coding--nothing heavy.
I think that the HP way of battery slicing is better, it's basically the opposite of what most internal batteries use, the prongs are on the slice and the connector is on the device, unlike most internal batteries, the prongs are on the laptop and the connector is on the battery One thing i will give this battery is that you can charge it without the lapttop, although people are making hack battery chargers that hook to the connector
If you own a X200-230 what's another couple of centimeters added to it. Thiccness is not a concern. Thought about this the other day. The battery on my X230 lasts 3-4 hours which is terrible compaired to my Dell 9360 - might wish me a slice battery for christmass :)
I really like my X220 but the display is not really nice. First i have the TN Display this is the biggest problem but also the resolution is not really good. But in other points it is one of the greatest notebooks. With i7-2620M and 8GB of RAM its never lets my down.
Hey, dude; Great video, but; WHERE did you get it? Do they have any more? Hey, what questions do you think people will have when they see this? Try to anticipate the response so you can answer the concerns people have. Have a GREAT day, Neighbor!
Luke has the nine cell, not the six cell. I'm not totally sure which one I have but someone once told me that I am an in cell so I guess that's what battery I have.
I think I would rather buy an external powerbank. It's much cheaper and charges anything. I have a laptop with two batteries and have one replacement 6 cell so if I know I am out for a long time I just have to switch batteries. Don't even have to turn the laptop off for switching! T450
I don't want to be rude but I don't really see the appeal of older thinkpads. If you get a x220/x230 or similar then add a 120/240GB SSD and more RAM (6/8GB) you'll be nearing about 250$-350$ meanwhile, for 200/400$ more you could get a brand new Asus vivobook/Dell inspiron 13 or even a 2 in 1 Lenovo. You'd get 8th gen CPUs and faster memory (which greatly improves the iGPU). Not only that but you'd get 1080p IPS screens instead of the dated TN thinkpad displays. Also, I don't really get why you guys use tiling window managers on 720p displays... that may make sense if you only have terminal windows open and text editors but for everything else? heck no. Just save some extra cash dude...
I've bought and used newer laptops and 2 in 1 lenovos, but i just ended up going back to old thinkpads. The newer stuff just keeps breaking so easily and i never enjoy using them.
It's not worth it. One can bring a car battery and various adapters, but the food must stay home on the longer trips into nature and then we lose the internet at some point.
>that 30 yo boomer who still orders their tech shit to their dad's house
It is the year 2021, and your thinkpad content is unrivaled.
Absolutely amazing work.
(Btw, since switching to linux I've come across your channel and I've enjoying every single one of your videos, old and new, so really, amazing work.)
You should visit your dad more often.
The cat's in the cradle.
ultra based
BASS --Adam Neely
think pads 50% battery 50% computer
I wish phones were this way, I rather lose style and gain battery.
@@itsGuy When I had a iPhone I had a case that charged in the way and it was pretty sweet. I could also turn it off and on if I wanted to so it was kind of like a case that had a power bank which was nice at the time. Running the S9 now and I had that iPhone a long time ago.
@@justinnentwich2779 When I was in 4th grade me and my class were going on a school trip, and I sat with my best friend at the time and he told me "Look at this case, it charges the phone while I'm using it" and I was like "Dude that's crazy I wish I had one of those" after 10 minutes he said "Look it's not charging I think it broke" and I was like "Was it broken before?" and he said that it wasn't. Since we both had iPhones the battery only lasted for a couple more hours and on the ride back both of our phones were dead. Like 4 years go by and we were chatting in a Discord call and he asked me "Hey remember that iPhone case that I said charged my phone? I forgot to charge and I got embaressed to say" I laughed my ass off that it took 4 years for him to admit it
incoming sudden spike of X220 slice battery sales on ebay...
I was thinking the exact same thing haha
or x230 which i happen to be using right now.
4:30 it does stick in position. Yours is probably just damaged or broken. But still better this instead having the lock permamently open :)
Worked last weekend, coming back from the mountains for almost like 8 hours in train and buses, on my brand new 9 cell X220 battery, Debian GNU/Linux :). It is true It was vim and ssh most of the time! I will think to buy such battery. X220 is a strong and durable laptop even by today standards! I personally run mysql, postgresql, nginx, apache, php-fpm, sometimes developing/compiling/running small graphics / OpenGL on it, etc. It is getting hot a little bit more in google-chrome / meeting, but... :)
Thank you for your videos!
I seriously thinking about buying ThinkPad as my next laptop.
/g/ says it is a meme. Memepad. The only way to make it worse would be to buy one and install Linux on it. Linux is also a meme, according to /g/. Wait, you could go all the way into memes and install Arch Linux on it. Memepad with Memelinux.
(I think I dislike /g/. Maybe…)
Who is this "4chan"?
the famous hacker
Put your LFS on it ;-)
@@aesculetum There's literally multiple daily threads about GNU/Linux as well as a daily thread about just ThinkPads, are you sure you've been on /g/?
Hey Luke, I also own a X220 and have been looking into these slice batteries for a while now. Where did you purchase yours? I've had awful luck with purchasing genuine batteries and need a half way decent dealer. Did you go straight through Lenovo?
I'm not Luke but there's no way in hell he bought it from Lenovo.
Hi, Bro, did you use tp battery management software(TLP, etc) when you using Linux? Really only 4-5 hours for 9 cell?
Thanks to your videos I bought a refurbished X220 instead of a new notebook. I saved a ton of money and I love this computer!!! The performance is really good, especially with an SSD and soon I'll be getting 16 GB of ram just for the hell of it.
🍕🔋 🍀 🤔🗒️ Very clever, Luke.
Yep, I only got it after I saw this comment. :)
@Mario Acosta It is a FOUR leaved clover.
@@jaarbahd9062 you're so clover
So how much more anime can you watch with that fancy battery?
Probably not enough.
all of it
I wouldn't recommend plugging in your ac adapter into both ports. If your laptops main battery isnt at full you could cause it to heat up significantly or break
is it 100 Wh or more? Because if it is it's not allowed on a plane anyway
I suppose you already have TLP installed. Because 4-5 hours seems very low. What CPU you got?
Love that the title is translated for milenials, so inclusive. 🦄
Modern emoji came out in 2015. It's zoomer shit.
What about heat and fan intake..?
Any differences ?
Wish they would make ThinkPads in the old style with modern CPUs, DDR4, Thunderbolt, USB C, etc.
Well at least with the CPU part they really can't do much because it intel soldering them also not good for the bottom line "we can't have people fixing there own shit"
Converting to usb c charging is actually pretty easy, theres a guy whom makes plugs that you just swap in
I bought a 9 cell slice battery for my thinkpad t430 but it's not charged and won't charge after having sit in the factory for so long. Is there some way I can get it to work?
How the heck did you get that X220 used for 90 bucks? I'm in Canada and here they cost close to 300 in some cases!
Check eBay over and over for a while until you find a cheap one. There might also just be fewer x220 for sale in Canada, I don't know.
Yeah, check ebay for the cheapest deals. I bought my x220 on Amazon for $175 and I love it to death but some people have gotten better specs for fewer bucks.
Mine's an i5 and came with 4 gigs RAM and a 300 gig HDD. I switched out the HDD for a 1T HDD and added 2 gigs of RAM. Not much, but those were the parts I had on hand. With Arch Linux, encrypted drive and boot, it's my favorite machine. I've got a 9 cell battery coming and an IPS panel. Will eventually invest in an SSD but I'm content with it's speed for now. Steam is the only program with any noticeable lag.
I found a redone one for 99€ (EUROS) on ebay, which is a very low price
I have not heard of the Slice Battery and Charger, but will be looking for it for my T400 ThinkPad as it is working fine for me since taking Windows 10 off of it. I installed ArcaOS 5 (upgraded OS/2) on the computer and it works fine. I probably should tell the company I got it from that they should not put Windows 10 on their older computers.
When you get home, do you just plug your x220 to the dock and keep it there all the time? Do you think it is damaging for the battery to be plugged in at all times? I'd love to hear your opinion and previous experience. Thanks a lot.
I'm late, but keeping your laptop plugged in at all times is 100% safe and could increase the lifespan of the battery.
Also late as this guy ^ but he’s right. Most modern laptops (not sure about older laptops) have a smart mechanism where they completely bypass the battery, making it run off the wall power directly. It’s great for getting more performance as your computer components will get power directly, instead of relying off of the battery all the time.
A shot everytime luke says slice battery. YOU WILL GET FUCKED UP
It's almost as if that's what the video is literally about.
Luke Smith please take my babies luke
do you use powertop?
Well I have made the mistake of getting a new laptop. But to be honest, these things are hard to get in India. I know the smartphone market is huge here but that isn't the case for laptop and desktops. 95% of them are windows based (and are really expensive and I don't want to pay Microsoft). Only very few Dell laptops are Ubuntu based and I got one on sale on which I am running Manjaro now, after I am confident about it, I will put LARBS in it. I have noticed that my average use on Manjaro consumes 6-7Whr of energy out of my 41Whr battery. So it lasts for about 6 hours or something. What is your average power consumption on your hardware-software config?
To make things easier just buy a windows machine then replace windoes with your distro of choice
@@brickedmyphone1189 Like I said I don't want to pay Microsoft. I don't. I don't. I don't wanna.
@@Houshalter Thanks. I've already applied all the power saving tools possible.
@@rentristandelacruz Finally somebody who replied to what I was actually asking about. So why is it the case that I am getting relatively longer screen time? Luke has the same screen time as you do on Arch. Is it possible that the processors or other components you use are more power hungry? Also, I have used TLP, thermald and PowerTop for my power management
@@anubhav21dec hey man, you are awesome, I hope you are doing well over there and keep being smart about the stuff you use.
I've never known anyone who actually used those laptop caddy/bases. There's something so sad about those things sitting around with no computer. I wish they were like a portion of a modular/parallel computer system. Like by plugging in your laptop, you've seamlessly combined the computational power in to a single system. Like a hotplugging parallel computer. Anyway, just saying that's where my mind always goes when I see laptop caddies.
I have ThinkPad T440 and I try battery life on some OS. It run (idle) about 9 hours on Windows 7, 7h on Windows 10, 6h on Linux Mint, and 7h on Fedora Core 27. Can You give some tips how extend battery life by setting Linux. I want to check Arch Linux in future.
Underclocking the CPU does a good trick but it require a full featured BIOS for that.
what other models use slice battery? does x201 or T420?
is it the i5 or the i7, and which of those two would you recomend?
Which is better? Slice or extended? I have a dell Lat.
being unable to buy a nice thinkpad like this is making me really sad.
What are you mean "nice"? Most of modern laptops are disposable, not not suitable for repair, shit. This also applies new thinkpads. X220(230), T420(430) good cheap option for purchase.
Don't fret! It can be made new again with replacement parts.
Hello, where I can buy the slice battery?
The best thing since sliced battery
Awsome Luke! I just ordered one. Keep it up!
Great video. I'm picking up an X230 today. Going to be running Fedora 30 with i3wm. Any idea what a new 6 cell battery might get in terms hours? I'll mostly be reading online docs, some coding--nothing heavy.
Cant seem to find where to buy thay slice battery
Luke can you recommend a good case or backpack for the X220?
Does it power the laptop without the main battery plugged in? Thanks
Hey Luke? Have you used a ThinkPad T500? and if so what are your experiences with that particular model?
Do they make this for the T430s?
I think that the HP way of battery slicing is better, it's basically the opposite of what most internal batteries use, the prongs are on the slice and the connector is on the device, unlike most internal batteries, the prongs are on the laptop and the connector is on the battery
One thing i will give this battery is that you can charge it without the lapttop, although people are making hack battery chargers that hook to the connector
Does anyone know if the X220 sliced battery would work on a X200 thinkpad?
Luke you have got to upgrade to the IPS ThinkPad screen, for the sake of your eyes.
Hey Luke ! - Is there any slice battery for thinkpad x60 ?
What were you rendering,Luke? Certainly not the videos for the channel, this channel is not that hardcore.
he was rendering pdfs on the thinkpad gpu
Hardcore PDF rendering
Is there a slice battery for the thinkpad x230?
The x220 slice battery works with the x230
that battery’s an absolute unit but what’s more of a unit is the size brain you need to have to understand the title 😎
i had no idea these existed, thank you so much for making me waste more money on fucking thinkpads
Is the slice battery, battery 2?
so it now could last about 15 hours?
Just buy another 9 cell if you need it. Cheap and simple.
I wish they sold these for the X201.
If you own a X200-230 what's another couple of centimeters added to it. Thiccness is not a concern.
Thought about this the other day. The battery on my X230 lasts 3-4 hours which is terrible compaired to my Dell 9360 - might wish me a slice battery for christmass :)
I call BS on three times the battery life; 9-cell is 96WH and the slice is an extra 65WH or thereabouts
Probably 3 times as long if your internal battery is shot
X200 slice batteries available?
Can I use this with a x200?
Can't get these for T410.
I really like my X220 but the display is not really nice. First i have the TN Display this is the biggest problem but also the resolution is not really good. But in other points it is one of the greatest notebooks. With i7-2620M and 8GB of RAM its never lets my down.
I just upgraded one of my two X200's to 8 gigs of RAM (Don't buy low voltage RAM like I did!). Next on my list is an Ultra Base+HDD caddy...
Why not? Please explain
Hey, dude;
Great video, but;
WHERE did you get it?
Do they have any more?
Hey, what questions do you think people will have when they see this?
Try to anticipate the response so you can answer the concerns people have.
Have a GREAT day, Neighbor!
Luke has the nine cell, not the six cell. I'm not totally sure which one I have but someone once told me that I am an in cell so I guess that's what battery I have.
Started work on hot swappable battery mod and cell replacement mod a few weeks ago for x230/220. Will post a video in the coming weeks, stay tuned...
Could you give us an update? I'd be very interested in both mods.
4-5 hours on a 9-cell? wtf are you doing? depends on what i do, but i get at least 2-3 more.
It's an old battery. In my case when it was new, il got 7 - 8 hours, but now, 7 years later, I get 4 - 5 hours with the same battery.
I think I would rather buy an external powerbank. It's much cheaper and charges anything. I have a laptop with two batteries and have one replacement 6 cell so if I know I am out for a long time I just have to switch batteries. Don't even have to turn the laptop off for switching! T450
For the money you could have the IPS screen upgrade and another normal battery.
You would need the extra battery for the ips screen, ips uses like 20% more battery
Nice table
Where should I buy new cell batteries? From China?
That's where they're made.
Hope they've improved; there was a recall in 2014 that affected the X200, X220, and other models.
China is literally where these Thinkpad come from...
90$ ?? Unsubbed!
hmm, slice + 9 cell + ultrabay? 3 batteries
Lasts at least a week -at least when not used
How can the x220 take an utrabay battery? It has no ultrabay in it
I'm all on portability, I don't even carry an AC charger. so I guess I wouldn't buy this. Also too expensive.
IMO its better to just buy an extra 9 cell
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I don't want to be rude but I don't really see the appeal of older thinkpads. If you get a x220/x230 or similar then add a 120/240GB SSD and more RAM (6/8GB) you'll be nearing about 250$-350$ meanwhile, for 200/400$ more you could get a brand new Asus vivobook/Dell inspiron 13 or even a 2 in 1 Lenovo. You'd get 8th gen CPUs and faster memory (which greatly improves the iGPU). Not only that but you'd get 1080p IPS screens instead of the dated TN thinkpad displays. Also, I don't really get why you guys use tiling window managers on 720p displays... that may make sense if you only have terminal windows open and text editors but for everything else? heck no. Just save some extra cash dude...
keyboards are much better in these thinkpads. If you type much on a notebook yo will understand.
I've bought and used newer laptops and 2 in 1 lenovos, but i just ended up going back to old thinkpads. The newer stuff just keeps breaking so easily and i never enjoy using them.
I wasted a lot of money on old shit. So how dumb am I?
All of his computers cost less than $300 or so lol
How much did you spend for yours?
thicc
wen ur friends with the guy who runs the local computer bank and he just gives you an x220 and a dock for free
🖍️🧾 📈
It's not worth it. One can bring a car battery and various adapters, but the food must stay home on the longer trips into nature and then we lose the internet at some point.
thicc