Hi, I worked for IBM for 21 years as a field engineer and they always gave us the latest greatest laptops, as we were on the road in Asia or South America etc.. The last time I upgraded just before I retired, I had a W500 with 16 gigs of ram and they upgraded me to a W550 with the i7 quad processor and 32 gigs of ram..It was a beast at the time. They told me to keep the W500 and the W550 when I retired. I threw some ssds in them with the hot swapable bays and still use both as daily drivers and I retired in 2016. Great laptops, still going strong..I cant count how many times I dropped them om the floor in the airports going thru the TSA checkpoints and they still work like a top..Great solid upgradable laptop.
Having had a good look inside my T440P when I did the initial build, I have to say, I'm VERY impressed. They implement most of my wishes/complaint points about mobile tech. A good example is pigtailing a lot of the external connectors like power. I've lost count of how many times I've had to reflow/resolder people's power connectors in their laptops. Sure, it's cheap to just solder it on the board, but as soon as someone wants to browse the internet wrapped up on the couch, eventually "It only charges if I hold the cord a certain way". The only thing I can't say I'm a fan of is the DRM B.S. in some of them. None of mine seem to complain about batteries or other wifi cards, but I know lots of people who've had that issue. Overall though, the 440s/440p I have are outstanding machines. Especially now with a good unix on them (BSD). It feels almost too good to be true!
@@GamingHelp The power ports on Dell laptops seem to be ok for the most part. However the power supply cord tends to fail at the cord plug that goes to the laptop power port. After a while it doesn't matter how you hold the cord. It won''t charge. Fortunately the thrift stores here are full of Dell power cords.
Put 2x8GB DDR3, a 250GB Samsung 850 Pro, a 1080p LG IPS panel, T450 trackpad, Japanese keyboard and a i7-4700MQ in mine. Overall came to about £330, very good value.
Best video in a long time. Brings back memories of the old channel before everything fell apart and only 6 videos a month of inconsistent quality were uploaded.
All in the price is between $400-$500. You won't find a new laptop with even close to these specs for double that. At the end of the day the only missing component is a graphics card but let's be honest, playing high end games that would require a descrete GPU on a 14-15 inch screen is a terrible experience anyway.
@@GSImproved90 Has nothing to do with 'clout'. It's the same reason why I stopped doing write ups and guides. Especially when it comes to laptop Wi-Fi cards. The best thing to do with Lenovo laptops is flash a hacked BIOS on it that removes Wi-Fi whitelist, and then upgrade it with the fastest one available. Last one I did, I needed a $10 device to write the new, hacked BIOS. 1300 Mbps Wi-Fi. -- I've already done the research, and I have the specific part numbers of the few available cards that will work.
@06:00 Screen Details, @07:40 teardown @08:20 Ram & m.2 @09:19 m.2 model @10:10 HDDs @13:25 HDD mechanical @16:00 CPU B140HAN01.3 - is that ips? The one that was suggested to me was, n140hce-en1 rev.c2. supposedly IPS. 🤔🤷🏻♀️
Man, you totally rock. Have one 440p with cracked screen free, I was just searching for disassembly guide, but this is way cool. It's really rare to see content this high quality. Subbed without even doubting.
Yeah laptop screens are usually replaced the same way aka just take the bezel off the screen and then unscrew it lay it down and pop the ribbon cable off and then just reverse for the new screen.
Minor correction, but Samsung has a larger market share than Kingston in the SSD space. Kingston doesn't make it's own NAND flash. Kingston's NAND flash is made by Toshiba, which is the second largest NAND manufacturer, after Samsung. The comment about the reliability stands though.
@@ngon1111 Lots of fakes exist, though. I remember my dad getting a great Kingston usb stick cheap on ebay only to die a few days later and when he called Kingston, they asked him to describe details of what the stick looks like and concluded it was counterfeit.
Love this video, wish i would have found it before I did most of my T440p upgrades, but I was still able to use your help on the keyboard, processor, and M.2 upgrades. For all you T440p people - something I didn't hear in the video but found out immediately after my CPU upgrade was that the machine now sucks a ton of power! My laptop came with he stock 45w power supply which is not enough to handle all the upgrades. I went ahead and bought a 90w model on Ebay, but a 135w would work great too! Also consider upgrading your battery pack to the extended 9 Cell version for extra life! :)
Nice video and perfect timing. I've been using a stock T440P for several years and it's getting long in the tooth. I snagged an Intel Core i7-4910MQ for a good price from fleabay, now to the SSD.
Isn't it too hot for t440p? I have i3-4000m. It is up to 55-60 degrees in 100% load. And it has 37w TDP. Now I got i7-4700MQ. Didn't install it yet and I'm concerned, that t440p cooling system will not handle it.
I heartily recommend the t440p too. I have a Thinkpad P1 (X1 Extreme variant) and an upgraded/modded t440p. I love both, but the t440p has the better keyboard and just feels right. It's a great option for a low-cost yet powerful and capable (and rugged -- and excellent ergos) laptop. The t440p is kind of like a perfect laptop. Just a bit chunky by today's standards (but that can be a good thing)
@@JohnnyCacheX The T440p doesn't have an internal battery. The internal battery was a thing starting with the x40 ThinkPads but for some reason the T440p wasn't included.
Amazing laptop. I bought out a used one from my firm with 1080p display, i7 (4600), backlit keyboard, 16gb of ram. For about a $100. I just had to replace the fan and a wifi card (+$30) and it performs like a beast.
It's been such a long time since I've chilled out and just watched one of your videos till the end. I miss your content. I'm going to go in a binge run. I've been a sub for years many many years. So great to see you still doing your thing on TH-cam. You've been here for way longer than most techie channels. You have such a chill presentation. Much Love brotha..I wish you continued success! 💯 🤘😎
@@Yoknapataphaw and he is also the first computer tech I see mentioning Linux, respect for that alone... my guess is that most guys don't mention Linux because it can potentially get clients away from them, since Linux most of the time just works and there's no drama on it... it's not perfect, PUBG still doesn't work on it among other titles, performance on Cities Skylines sucks for some reason, but for most of the time it works
There's only one benchmark I care about: Cities Skylines... if that thing runs it, it runs anything else XDD But please note: benchmark it with a bigass 100k population city, not an empty map like everyone does
About that touchpad. If you have issue with drivers, try to go in BIOS and default it. Then when you boot in windows instal that driver. My tip. I have had problems with touchpad drivers with my Lenovo Y50 70, windows were thinking that my touchpad is Synaptics but actualy its ELAN. So those steps i wrote above worked for me.
I friend of mine has a HP Probook from 2011. Last year i did some upgrades and realized how great this probook is. All parts were upgradable >CPU,GPU,RAM,HDD > SSD and even the optical drive could be swaped to a gpu, second harddrive or other stuff. After upgrading windows start was reduced from 3min to 18sec after power button push. Still a great Laptop if you don't wanna play the newest AAA Games.
Love this video. Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together and do the research! Watching this sealed the deal for me as I needed a spare laptop and I picked up a T440p after I watched this. Let the upgrading commence!
Went this route on an old Dell 15.6 inch M4600 Workstation laptop from 2012 ..Those along with the m4700 M4800 from 2013/14 and their bigger brothers the 17.3 inch M6600/M6700/M6800 from 2011 - 2014 Bought my M4600 on Fleabay for £250 with a Core I7 extreme and Quadro 2000m Nvida card already installed ,along with a Dell Ultrasharp 1080p panel. Upgraded the Wifi to a/c From N spec,Got a 500gb Crucial CX SSD, a Dummy CD drive bay and moved the 500gb HDD to that.running 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3.Total Cost £350...It's a beast. Now for gaming the 2000m quadro is ok for older titles at low resolution.However Guys...It's 2019, powerful gaming laptops are not now needed. PS4 Game Stream to the laptop from your Ps4 ..use Sony Remote Play XBox Game Stream to the Laptop ..Use the windows 10 built in xbox remote app baked in along with your Xbox. PC Game streaming from a main Gaming PC ..just use Moonlight app on the laptop and Geforce Experience on the gaming PC.Or use Steam Streaming app. Android Gaming on the laptop..no problem, just use an android emulator like Bluestacks etc
The problem is with the t440/p/s models the Trackpoint does not have physical buttons unless you upgrade the trackpad.. The clunkpad on the t440 really is terrible. Thankfully it's the only generation that uses it.
@@ghostD0C Yes you can replace the trackpad with the t450 one as explained in the video.. but windows doesn't play nice with the drivers unless you do some very specific things (and even then I've only managed to make it work with a clean install of windows). This was also explained in the video.
I highly recomend to go for liquid metal on the CPU die. this will give you 10 to 20% better thermals and extends the boost time. Try XTU to extend the boost time, tpo lower the vcore and enable higher watts for the boost.
Just bought and tinkered with one of these. DEFINITELY worth. It was 200$ t440p with a 4900mq and the 730m. Proceeded to throw a 256gig m.2 and 1080p screen for another 100. BUT looking recently, the only t440ps on sale now are base models or overpriced "refurbished" models. If you could find a 4 core t440p for less than 250, you want something to tinker with, dont mind a thiccc machine and are looking for a machine capable of playing skyrim then this would be something to consider, not to mention the prodock and the keyboard. ( though the fn and ctrl keys should be switched and it urks me so very much)
fun to watch and informative. I don't have a thonk (or any laptop actually) but I do like to read and watch videos on them. I've read that guide to modding thinkpads before too, but when I considered the total cost of upgrades, it seemed to me I would rather just buy a used Precision workstation, used latitude or maybe a newer Thinkpad if I could get a good deal with perks and ebates. Might have been a nice touch to tally the total amount of money spent on parts. i could see this being a good option for people who just like tinkering projects, and also for people who don't have $500 NOW, maybe only $200, so buy the used t440p, and upgrade it now and then when they see a deal or have the money
This is a special video for three reasons: 1. It contains good info 2. It is an end-of-a-era document on hackable devices. 3. The creepy voice asides are totes hillaire 😁
We are in the age of compulsive shopping disorder. Many people spend their money lavishly to be always updated, to have the best the newest... I appreciate what you did in this video man.
I got ahold of yet another T440p (I think this is the fourth or fifth I’ve purchased) because of this video. I already have done all of this stuff before, but seeing this made me want to do it again! :P In the meantime I have a T520 as well that I found for super cheap that I’m playing around with.
TH-cam recommendation is solid on this one. I'm a big fan of ThinkPads. Your rant about the trackpad driver is spot on. I don't know what Lenovo would keep removing functionality for no reason. You can't use three finger back on them for some reason but the old driver you can
Been awhile since I checked in on this channel but Logan be sporting Gary Oldman's Zorg look from the 5th Element with the hair, beard and painted nails! All that's missing is the long drawl accent! Am I right!? The video was cool too btw!
Watching this from my T440P with all upgrades except the screen and CPU which I plan to doing it in the next few months (saving money mode:on) Note: Don't forget to put laptop rubber feet on the corner of bezel, because the modded t450 touchpad click button will press the screen
not if you use a genuine synaptics trackpad, the middle button will be level with the spacebar if you use a genuine synaptics one, or so I heard anyway so take it with a grain of salt
This is my new project, I have been trying to get a “new” laptop to take my 10 year old Toshibas place. I was looking at how expensive “modern” laptops are and got discouraged. Thanks for sharing this!
Great Job. Not too simpliied, not condescending, pragmatic, great advice, great planning and prep. Thank you. FYI I'm not a noob, used to support these laptops for my job (although I prefer the T430) They are built like little tanks, and FYI, they are not for sale to the public. as I understand, the T series, can only be sold to companies (something like that anyhoo) which is sort of dumb, but there you are.... You could reasonably expect at least 10 years to one of these machines, if it is looked after.
@@Bobsyouruncle222 thats crazy. It was fun to watch, but not clicking on those affiliated links.. $1000 is just wow. Thanks! I rather just buy new laptop
Great video! Convinced me to nab a T440p after having a mishap with my 8570w, and I found a bluray drive for a really good price too! Sadly the trackpoint nublet on mine is reported not to work, but if that really bothers me I can always replace the keyboard later, lol. :P EDIT: Oh! Almost forgot to mention, I managed to find one of the nvidia models for under $200! It helps if you run the serial number through the Lenovo parts lookup website, it'll tell you all about what specs the machine shipped with.
I have an ideapad from 2012 that has sli 650ms and a 2.4-3ghz 4 cores 8 threads i7. As sli phased out I pulled the ultrabay gpu out and added better WiFi and a display driver in that area and added an easy way to setup an egpu. It runs vr games great now.
Cat eye 456 I mean sure he did go way further than generally done in his upgrades but the bottom line is he just customized an already existing laptop.
The W540 and W541 laptops are also a good option as well. I got one with the i7-4810QM, 16GB RAM, Quadro K2100M, and 3K IPS panel in like-new conditon for $350 shipped. Used ThinkPads are an amazing deal of you're willing to shop around eBay for a bit.
T440p (16GB RAM, No HDD): ~$120 i7-4910MQ: ~$180 CPU Cooling Fan & Heatsink: ~$50 Backlit Keyboard: ~$50 B140HAN01.3 Display: ~$60 M.2 SSD Heatsink: ~$10 Transcend 256GB M.2 SSD: ~$50 Kingston UV500 960 GB: ~$150 Total: $620 T470p i5-7300HQ, 16Gb, 500GB SSD, 1920x1080: $679.44 ebay.us/r0bmU7 I see absolutely no reason to get a thinkpad that's now 5 generations old and put all this effort in. I really like tinkering with stuff. but that's just not worth it. The T470p is just 2 generations old, has lots of power and a way more modern i5 CPU that's at least as powerful as the old i7 if not better. Tip for the T470p, you want the i5 because you can't get the i7 without the useless nvidia card.
agree. Got myself an old T450(IPS 1080p, i5 5300, 256GB SSD, 8GB ram) just because it was 160 euros, and it's very good for daily browsing and media use, but to overspend so much on an old ThinkPad seems a bit unreasonable. But it's kinda cool to be able to upgrade laptop like that, guess it's more about that than anything else.
That's silly. I've upgraded my t440p and paid $320 all together after shopping around. You can find a 37W tdp i7 on ebay for less than $100. You don't need a new fan and heatsink either. You just need to find a 37W TDP CPU, since the fan and heatsink are actually spec'ed to handle a quad core i7 with that tdp. I haven't installed the m.2 SSD but instead opted for a SATA one and moved the other drive to a caddy in the optical bay that I got for $15 off of amazon. Get a crucial MX500 1TB SSD instead of the kingston. It can be had for cheaper and it's a better SSD. LG LP140WF3 SPD1 is a superior display to the AUO one you mentioned. I found it for $45. I didn't upgrade the keyboard because I actually prefer the feel of the non-backlit one. I considered buying one and they can be found for ~$20, not $50.
To be fair, the two ssds eat it a considerable chunk of that price differential. A mushkin enhanced source 3D TLC 2.5" SSD goes for $53 at newegg making this build a much more reasonable $470. With that being said, you can grab a Yoga L380 with an 8th Gen i5, 8gb of ram and a 256GB SSD on ebay for around $400. Thats 1080P IPS, Stylus support and likely, still with a warranty and a T480 isn't far behind pricewise. These mods are fun and that is part of the experience so that part can't be replaced. This, of course, comes from someone who refurbs unusable/broken thinkpads for sale as a hobby. X1 Carbon 1st Gen FHD Mod ala nitrocaster, T440 mod (similar to this video), W540 (screen replacement which is just as easy), and several full W540 full refurbs from junk/parts machines (3 of 4 complete).
I got my T440p with the 730m for about 350$ -i7-4600M (I could upgrade it, but nothing I do on it uses more than 4 threads, and the single core performance isn't worth it) -8GBs RAM -1080p IPS -512GB SSD -Backlit Keyboard The only things I can or will upgrade is another SSD, RAM and the trackpad. Which as you've said is 50$ for the M.2 SSD, and a trackpad is about 15-30$, and probably 80$ for the RAM IF I think that's worth it. I think I'm only going to get a 2nd SSD for dual-booting and maybe the trackpad in the future, so really it'd only cost me
If you use the HDD sled, I want to save you from a massive headache. There's a VERY tiny switch on the side of the sled. If the switch in the wrong position, your drive will disappear from Windows when you PC goes to sleep. I spent wayyy too much time trying to figure out a software/OS fix. Turns out it just a hardware fix. www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/9ulab5/fix_your_ultrabay_hddssd_device_not_showing_up/
Just got my T400p off ebay with an upgraded i7 and a new screen for $275 including ship. Only 4g Ram and 500 gig hdd. So time for some upgrades. I saw your video before i bought it and came back to use your W of Warships link! I'm gonna give it a shot on this puppy as is, with keyboard and mouse.
I recently stuck a 4910MQ in my 440P and holy cow does it fly. I benched my 440S against my new 440P build and my video renders are 11 times faster. That's an insane speedup. Only downside is the 4910mq runs hot as heck under full load. I run FreeBSD on mine though and there were tools for controlling pretty much everything. So, I undervolted the machine, did some custom fan curves and that got me MOST of the way there. Eventually, I had to buy some copper plate and then sanded the top surface of the heat pipe to clean copper, then overlaid a piece of 1mm thick copper all the way from the CPU heat spreader all the way to the CPU. It's something like 5-6" long and a couple inches thick and that did the trick. I can't get it to throttle or complain about thermals now and I still get to render my youtube video's at blazing speed. I have two extra 1TB SSD's in there now dedicated as swap too on top of the boot/OS disk. Needless to say, the machine is mister speedy and then some!
Thanks so much for this tutorial. Very informative especially with the suggestions of the components. Followed this for my T440p Including the trackpad and it is so perfect with Linux. Thanks again.
Great video! Another suggestion: Remove the wifi card as it may actually be a nvme x2 port and you can instead insert a nvme drive into the spot. I've done this in the past successfully. Then you can buy a stripped down USB hub, chipset only, and shunt the laptop's internal USB wiring to the hub, with the hub split into 2 outputs, with one being the USB port on the laptop, and the other being an absolutely tiny USB wifi device, again chipset only. You'll need to plan out where to put these 2 extra devices, though this can easily be done by removing the SSD chipset from the drive enclosure and connecting the chipset sans drive enclosure. That'll free up a ton of room for a USB hub + USB wifi. Then simply clip the wifi antenna to the prior antenna wiring. Once you do this, you now have a NVMe drive + likely a faster wifi, all for really cheap.
Thanks for the video! I recently had to find a 4 core laptop for a friend cheap so I just looked up the i7 4700m which came up with a few nice laptops. I ended up snagging him an hp zbook which had several nice features as well as feeling very rugged for $200. I7 4700mq, 16gb ddr3 1600 in 4 dims, msata port, 2.5 drive, quadro k1100m mxm card, and 15” screen. I think the 17” version has two 2.5” drive spots plus optical. A 1080p ips panel would look better, but I would stay at 720p for more fps in games. It would be nice to find a 720p ips panel!
I came across this laptop at a thrift store for $35. The only thing missing was the power supply. I found the power supply at a Goodwill for $7.00. This laptop had a brand new SSD that had never been used with a factory install of Windows 10 on it. I'll be doing some upgrades on it eventually. Currently it has an i5 dual core processor and 8 Gb of ram.
I have a ThinkPad T440p with an i7-4800MQ, 8GB RAM (I'm going to upgrade to 16GB), Samsung 250GB SSD, GeForce GT 730M, 1080p IPS panel, 3G modem, fingerprint sensor and backlit keyboard.
Nice! I got one here in europe as new for €225 :1080p, 8gb, 4300M, backlit keyboard. Installed my old 256gb plextor ssd and voila . happy. The dual core is fine for me i run linux n working with gimp its fast. I am always mobile with it so a quadcore upgrade meh isnt a good idea i guess. The T440p is a monster with a 35 watt haswell that kills anything in its path even in 2020. cheers :D
I AM in europe too. I find a similar pice for these lenovo thinkpads in refurbish condition. Should i add backlit keyboard (where do i find them cheaply?) and more ram? Will it be better? I'll also use Linux (Mint cinnamon) in that laptop. Also i wonder if buying a better laptop than this (slimer, nicer) are these going to work the same? Thanks...
@@RHTORAS Slimmer laptops do not have the 37-45 watt cpu's. In my case it is my only computer so slimmer means nothing to me. It can not be so hard to find one with all the options. Just be patient. A lot of folks ordered the full hd panel and backlit keyboard. Heck there are even with ssd's already installed and 8 or more gb of ram / quad core etc.
@@auttark9815 37-45 watt has any benefit in the laptop? I would like to buy a laptop in the future slim and upgrade it. Will Lenovo be an ideal brand or not? Also i saw a video where you add the backlit keyboard and add coloured cellophane and make it RGB.
@@RHTORAS All kinds of thin and light thinkpads are available. Maybe T440s is much better for you, it weighs 500 grams less then the T440p. Funny project a rainbow keyboard. Good luck
Just installed T450 synaptics trackpad on T440p with Windows 10 (latest v1903) and got all trackpoint and touchpad functions including buttons working well. Try forum.thinkpads for driver mod and install including preventing win10 updating and thus screwing your work
@@GasPipeJimmy That's the link I used. I have installed the win7/8 driver and don't think I'll go to the win10 one (as per post #10 on the forum,) as the win8 one is working fine.
IMO the i7-4702mq is the CPU to go for it has the same 37watt TDP as the i5 while still having 4 cores 8 threads. Only downside is a lower turbo boost(3.2 GHZ) the upside is lower power use, less heat, longer battery life. It's a difficult CPU to find but I was lucky enough to find one locally for $90.
I'd rather have a WWAN card than a second SSD, you also forgot wire more cells in parallel with the battery, no sense in improving performance if you can't use it unplugged for any appreciable length of time
@@JonathanJ21 wire more cells in parallel with the cells in the original battery, it's really easy, positive to positive, negative to negative across the whole battery
I did this full upgrade in late 2020 waiting for the right deals and built mine for $600 (512 M.2, 500gb PNY SSD, HyperX Ram 16gb, i7 4910MQ) So to all those complaining about not getting a good deal because of this video "Your Impatient"
4:08 In some games like Fortnite it uses the Nvidia gpu and the Integrated Gpu from the Cpu at the same time for more fps I noticed that on my laptop when I was playing fortnite
@Andre Bertachini Thinking its the 2 MX CPUS AKA the 4930MX and the 4940MX since those are 57watt parts compared to the 47watt part used in the both the video and the 4980HQ part you listed.
@Andre Bertachini Never said it could but the 4980HQ you posted about is a 47watt CPU and its the 2 MX CPUs that are the 57watt parts so the T440p should handle the 4980HQ just fine
My T440p did not come with the integrated camera, so I installed one and it is not working. I have tried numerous driver updates and reinstalled WIN 10 and it still is not working. I am in school and I really need the camera for virtual classes. I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks
I recently upgraded my W540 in a lot of similar ways: -Re-seated, cleaned and applied Thermal Grizzly to CPU/GPU cooler -Upgraded to 32gb of RAM -Upgraded to 1TB SSD -Installed 3 button touchpad If you're interested, I actually did get the Alps touchpad to work with Windows 10: www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/d9wp5h/no_synaptics_trackpad_driver_functionality_w540/ Didn't need to upgrade the screen (it was already 3k), didn't upgrade the CPU, already came with a i7-4810, and didn't put an M.2 drive or DVD drive adapter in since the 1TB is plenty storage for me.
Hi, I worked for IBM for 21 years as a field engineer and they always gave us the latest greatest laptops, as we were on the road in Asia or South America etc.. The last time I upgraded just before I retired, I had a W500 with 16 gigs of ram and they upgraded me to a W550 with the i7 quad processor and 32 gigs of ram..It was a beast at the time. They told me to keep the W500 and the W550 when I retired.
I threw some ssds in them with the hot swapable bays and still use both as daily drivers and I retired in 2016. Great laptops, still going strong..I cant count how many times I dropped them om the floor in the airports going thru the TSA checkpoints and they still work like a top..Great solid upgradable laptop.
Having had a good look inside my T440P when I did the initial build, I have to say, I'm VERY impressed. They implement most of my wishes/complaint points about mobile tech. A good example is pigtailing a lot of the external connectors like power. I've lost count of how many times I've had to reflow/resolder people's power connectors in their laptops. Sure, it's cheap to just solder it on the board, but as soon as someone wants to browse the internet wrapped up on the couch, eventually "It only charges if I hold the cord a certain way". The only thing I can't say I'm a fan of is the DRM B.S. in some of them. None of mine seem to complain about batteries or other wifi cards, but I know lots of people who've had that issue. Overall though, the 440s/440p I have are outstanding machines. Especially now with a good unix on them (BSD). It feels almost too good to be true!
@@GamingHelp The power ports on Dell laptops seem to be ok for the most part. However the power supply cord tends to fail at the cord plug that goes to the laptop power port. After a while it doesn't matter how you hold the cord. It won''t charge. Fortunately the thrift stores here are full of Dell power cords.
Put 2x8GB DDR3, a 250GB Samsung 850 Pro, a 1080p LG IPS panel, T450 trackpad, Japanese keyboard and a i7-4700MQ in mine. Overall came to about £330, very good value.
What keyboard, if I may ask?
Could you tell me the part number of the 1080p panel?
Good questions, I’ll also need some more info before approaching this
Best video in a long time. Brings back memories of the old channel before everything fell apart and only 6 videos a month of inconsistent quality were uploaded.
What happened to the old channel? I've been thinking about that, I heard some old employee had a disagreement an just deleted it.
The problem with you doing this is that you've now raised the prices on all this stuff
All in the price is between $400-$500. You won't find a new laptop with even close to these specs for double that. At the end of the day the only missing component is a graphics card but let's be honest, playing high end games that would require a descrete GPU on a 14-15 inch screen is a terrible experience anyway.
Yup, Tek Syndicate has that much clout.
@@GSImproved90 Has nothing to do with 'clout'. It's the same reason why I stopped doing write ups and guides. Especially when it comes to laptop Wi-Fi cards. The best thing to do with Lenovo laptops is flash a hacked BIOS on it that removes Wi-Fi whitelist, and then upgrade it with the fastest one available. Last one I did, I needed a $10 device to write the new, hacked BIOS.
1300 Mbps Wi-Fi. -- I've already done the research, and I have the specific part numbers of the few available cards that will work.
@@esnebta Nice
Yeah ;-;
@06:00 Screen Details,
@07:40 teardown
@08:20 Ram & m.2
@09:19 m.2 model
@10:10 HDDs
@13:25 HDD mechanical
@16:00 CPU
B140HAN01.3 - is that ips?
The one that was suggested to me was, n140hce-en1 rev.c2. supposedly IPS. 🤔🤷🏻♀️
Man, you totally rock. Have one 440p with cracked screen free, I was just searching for disassembly guide, but this is way cool. It's really rare to see content this high quality. Subbed without even doubting.
Yeah laptop screens are usually replaced the same way aka just take the bezel off the screen and then unscrew it lay it down and pop the ribbon cable off and then just reverse for the new screen.
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Minor correction, but Samsung has a larger market share than Kingston in the SSD space. Kingston doesn't make it's own NAND flash. Kingston's NAND flash is made by Toshiba, which is the second largest NAND manufacturer, after Samsung. The comment about the reliability stands though.
necrobard Toshiba makes amazing products 😉
@@joshpickle4371 ever tried their USB drives? Dies like flies on me.
@@ngon1111 Lots of fakes exist, though. I remember my dad getting a great Kingston usb stick cheap on ebay only to die a few days later and when he called Kingston, they asked him to describe details of what the stick looks like and concluded it was counterfeit.
Yep, Kinkstone only sticks their stickers, in most cases on toshibas.
here in this comment section we can see samsung staff and kingston staff are fighting with each other
i bought a t440p because of this video. i don't regret it! great video man :))
This vid really sealed the deal for me when I bought my T440p. Now I've maxed out the upgrades and got dual boot too.
Hey man, I’m interested in doing this, wondering how your laptop is going?
I just ordered a T440p yesterday and I can't wait to get it.
Have it arrived yet?
Love this video, wish i would have found it before I did most of my T440p upgrades, but I was still able to use your help on the keyboard, processor, and M.2 upgrades. For all you T440p people - something I didn't hear in the video but found out immediately after my CPU upgrade was that the machine now sucks a ton of power! My laptop came with he stock 45w power supply which is not enough to handle all the upgrades. I went ahead and bought a 90w model on Ebay, but a 135w would work great too! Also consider upgrading your battery pack to the extended 9 Cell version for extra life! :)
how'd you find the parts. the links dont work anymore
Nice video and perfect timing. I've been using a stock T440P for several years and it's getting long in the tooth. I snagged an Intel Core i7-4910MQ for a good price from fleabay, now to the SSD.
Isn't it too hot for t440p? I have i3-4000m. It is up to 55-60 degrees in 100% load. And it has 37w TDP. Now I got i7-4700MQ. Didn't install it yet and I'm concerned, that t440p cooling system will not handle it.
@@dechmusic It's been running for years, and still solid. I did pick up a new laptop, but the old T440P is hanging in there.
Shout out to Comprenew! I was the guy who sold you that CPU
I heartily recommend the t440p too. I have a Thinkpad P1 (X1 Extreme variant) and an upgraded/modded t440p. I love both, but the t440p has the better keyboard and just feels right. It's a great option for a low-cost yet powerful and capable (and rugged -- and excellent ergos) laptop. The t440p is kind of like a perfect laptop. Just a bit chunky by today's standards (but that can be a good thing)
ALWAYS disconnect both batteries first otherwise you will fry your new screen......trust me on this .!
Is that specific to the 440p model? I've swapped at least a hundred displays on ThinkPads so far and haven't killed even one.
@@JohnnyCacheX Specifically the models with two batteries, one internal and the removable one.
You can also just disable the internal battery in the BIOS.
@@JohnnyCacheX The T440p doesn't have an internal battery. The internal battery was a thing starting with the x40 ThinkPads but for some reason the T440p wasn't included.
@@JeffreyAbbinante T440/450/460 models have the double batteries too
My dad gave me his old laptop, I am currently using it and was looking for the stuff to upgrade. This video had everything I needed in one place
Amazing laptop. I bought out a used one from my firm with 1080p display, i7 (4600), backlit keyboard, 16gb of ram. For about a $100. I just had to replace the fan and a wifi card (+$30) and it performs like a beast.
now I'm eyeing an ssd caddy and a new battery but that can wait a while
Damn thats a steal
I haven't watch your videos in years!! Glad you're still here
It's been such a long time since I've chilled out and just watched one of your videos till the end. I miss your content. I'm going to go in a binge run. I've been a sub for years many many years. So great to see you still doing your thing on TH-cam. You've been here for way longer than most techie channels. You have such a chill presentation. Much Love brotha..I wish you continued success! 💯 🤘😎
@@Yoknapataphaw It wasn't said to you, so what's it to 'ya?
@@Yoknapataphaw and he is also the first computer tech I see mentioning Linux, respect for that alone... my guess is that most guys don't mention Linux because it can potentially get clients away from them, since Linux most of the time just works and there's no drama on it... it's not perfect, PUBG still doesn't work on it among other titles, performance on Cities Skylines sucks for some reason, but for most of the time it works
@@Yoknapataphaw His comment was perhaps the most bizarre comment I've seen not only on tech stuff but also in general on YT vid :-)
CONTENT! YES. Also a few months ago i upgraded a T400. Dropped in an X9100 cpu, 8gb ram, and an SSD. Worth it? Probably not but i wanted libreboot.
The Model T400 and T410 uses this generation processor !?
Please run the laptop show the performance. Waited the whole video for that -_-
Same!!
Yea brother, I want to see that monster running
There's only one benchmark I care about: Cities Skylines... if that thing runs it, it runs anything else XDD
But please note: benchmark it with a bigass 100k population city, not an empty map like everyone does
Lol just look up benchmarks of the CPU there's hundreds
These laptop builds with big upgrades are beautiful. More please!
About that touchpad. If you have issue with drivers, try to go in BIOS and default it. Then when you boot in windows instal that driver. My tip. I have had problems with touchpad drivers with my Lenovo Y50 70, windows were thinking that my touchpad is Synaptics but actualy its ELAN. So those steps i wrote above worked for me.
I friend of mine has a HP Probook from 2011. Last year i did some upgrades and realized how great this probook is. All parts were upgradable >CPU,GPU,RAM,HDD > SSD and even the optical drive could be swaped to a gpu, second harddrive or other stuff. After upgrading windows start was reduced from 3min to 18sec after power button push. Still a great Laptop if you don't wanna play the newest AAA Games.
Love this video. Thank you so much for taking the time to put this together and do the research! Watching this sealed the deal for me as I needed a spare laptop and I picked up a T440p after I watched this. Let the upgrading commence!
how did the upgrading go?
Went this route on an old Dell 15.6 inch M4600 Workstation laptop from 2012 ..Those along with the m4700 M4800 from 2013/14 and their bigger brothers the 17.3 inch M6600/M6700/M6800 from 2011 - 2014
Bought my M4600 on Fleabay for £250 with a Core I7 extreme and Quadro 2000m Nvida card already installed ,along with a Dell Ultrasharp 1080p panel. Upgraded the Wifi to a/c From N spec,Got a 500gb Crucial CX SSD, a Dummy CD drive bay and moved the 500gb HDD to that.running 16GB 1600Mhz DDR3.Total Cost £350...It's a beast.
Now for gaming the 2000m quadro is ok for older titles at low resolution.However Guys...It's 2019,
powerful gaming laptops are not now needed.
PS4 Game Stream to the laptop from your Ps4 ..use Sony Remote Play
XBox Game Stream to the Laptop ..Use the windows 10 built in xbox remote app baked in along with your Xbox.
PC Game streaming from a main Gaming PC ..just use Moonlight app on the laptop and Geforce Experience on the gaming PC.Or use Steam Streaming app.
Android Gaming on the laptop..no problem, just use an android emulator like Bluestacks etc
You can get gtx 1050 4gb mxm compatible, but for sick prices.
Nice
>Wasting time on the trackpad when one has a ThinkPad™ TrackPoint™
Blasphemy!
The problem is with the t440/p/s models the Trackpoint does not have physical buttons unless you upgrade the trackpad.. The clunkpad on the t440 really is terrible. Thankfully it's the only generation that uses it.
When the track pad has some vital parts of the track point, you are SOL, deal with it.
@@jbrooks4282 You can actually replace the crappy trackpad with the better ones, at least in some models. Not sure where you can buy them though.
@@ghostD0C Yes you can replace the trackpad with the t450 one as explained in the video.. but windows doesn't play nice with the drivers unless you do some very specific things (and even then I've only managed to make it work with a clean install of windows). This was also explained in the video.
cmon man don't use the word Blasphemy
He's using a GPU for a drink coaster. Now I've seen everything
made me spit-laugh on my monitor you tool .
BFG Tech 8800GTX cards lasted longer as coasters than in actual use.
Can confirm, it was my first ever GPU, and my first ever beer coaster too.
he's been doing that for .. a decade now.
I'm using an old DVD drive
Exacly... Total cost around $700. What a deal
Thought this channel was long dead, but yet somehow it's still going. Not sure about the new hairstyle though. Solid video though.
I suspect he's growing it out and it's in the weird phase.
Uuiuuuiiiii
@@Sieg670 The hair or the channel?
@@Sieg670 guy is just weird period haha grown man with nail polish says it all
This channel is ancient. Glad to see it still alive
You fellas gonna do a video showing of the performance of these new beasts of yours??
Slow bus
I highly recomend to go for liquid metal on the CPU die. this will give you 10 to 20% better thermals and extends the boost time. Try XTU to extend the boost time, tpo lower the vcore and enable higher watts for the boost.
Oh i want to save this comment for me later.
Me 2
Just bought and tinkered with one of these. DEFINITELY worth. It was 200$ t440p with a 4900mq and the 730m. Proceeded to throw a 256gig m.2 and 1080p screen for another 100. BUT looking recently, the only t440ps on sale now are base models or overpriced "refurbished" models. If you could find a 4 core t440p for less than 250, you want something to tinker with, dont mind a thiccc machine and are looking for a machine capable of playing skyrim then this would be something to consider, not to mention the prodock and the keyboard. ( though the fn and ctrl keys should be switched and it urks me so very much)
Your T-shirt alone is worth the sub.
fun to watch and informative. I don't have a thonk (or any laptop actually) but I do like to read and watch videos on them. I've read that guide to modding thinkpads before too, but when I considered the total cost of upgrades, it seemed to me I would rather just buy a used Precision workstation, used latitude or maybe a newer Thinkpad if I could get a good deal with perks and ebates. Might have been a nice touch to tally the total amount of money spent on parts.
i could see this being a good option for people who just like tinkering projects, and also for people who don't have $500 NOW, maybe only $200, so buy the used t440p, and upgrade it now and then when they see a deal or have the money
This is a special video for three reasons:
1. It contains good info
2. It is an end-of-a-era document on hackable devices.
3. The creepy voice asides are totes hillaire 😁
Why end-of-an-era though? If Louis Rossmann told me anything then its that a good'ol' hot air blower and some solder make everything hackable... ;)
@@slighter Intel 4th gen mobile CPUs are the last socketed processors made for laptops, everything else after is BGA
We are in the age of compulsive shopping disorder. Many people spend their money lavishly to be always updated, to have the best the newest... I appreciate what you did in this video man.
I got ahold of yet another T440p (I think this is the fourth or fifth I’ve purchased) because of this video. I already have done all of this stuff before, but seeing this made me want to do it again! :P
In the meantime I have a T520 as well that I found for super cheap that I’m playing around with.
would like to see more performance differences from the upgraded to non upgraded version
TH-cam recommendation is solid on this one. I'm a big fan of ThinkPads. Your rant about the trackpad driver is spot on. I don't know what Lenovo would keep removing functionality for no reason. You can't use three finger back on them for some reason but the old driver you can
Been awhile since I checked in on this channel but Logan be sporting Gary Oldman's Zorg look from the 5th Element with the hair, beard and painted nails! All that's missing is the long drawl accent! Am I right!? The video was cool too btw!
Today I got a clean i5 t440p no HDD, 4800MQ, 135w charger and thermal paste for
17:26 well now you have my attention
Thanks . Just picked up a used t440p . After watching your video, I'm planning to mod it.
Watching this from my T440P with all upgrades except the screen and CPU which I plan to doing it in the next few months (saving money mode:on)
Note: Don't forget to put laptop rubber feet on the corner of bezel, because the modded t450 touchpad click button will press the screen
not if you use a genuine synaptics trackpad, the middle button will be level with the spacebar if you use a genuine synaptics one, or so I heard anyway so take it with a grain of salt
Brazilian watching here. Thankful by your information, bro! Good lucky!
Thank u for making this video now I have a project to do when everything is done with
This is my new project, I have been trying to get a “new” laptop to take my 10 year old Toshibas place. I was looking at how expensive “modern” laptops are and got discouraged. Thanks for sharing this!
This is pretty cool! Thanks Logan!
Great Job. Not too simpliied, not condescending, pragmatic, great advice, great planning and prep. Thank you.
FYI I'm not a noob, used to support these laptops for my job (although I prefer the T430) They are built like little tanks, and FYI, they are not for sale to the public. as I understand, the T series, can only be sold to companies (something like that anyhoo) which is sort of dumb, but there you are.... You could reasonably expect at least 10 years to one of these machines, if it is looked after.
SOS. I did same upgrade. The stupid wifi keep kicking me off. I cannot figure it out. Can I update the wifi card?
Just upgraded the screen on mine. Thank you!!
Do you plan on making an updated video with different Lenovo thinkpad laptops?
Very nice demo ! I didn't know you could update in such a way a laptop. Well done !!!
Sounds good in theory but 100 here 150 there soon adds up to a lot of money for a second hand laptop
plus you gonna spend 5 times the laptops value on the upgrades , and when its time to sell it you'll be lucky to get 200$ for it ...
@@Bobsyouruncle222 how much was the total cost for this upgrade?
@@iexecutionzi8400 for him it was around 800$ I believe , but if you look for the parts yourself it comes to 1200$ or more ...
@@Bobsyouruncle222 thats crazy. It was fun to watch, but not clicking on those affiliated links.. $1000 is just wow. Thanks! I rather just buy new laptop
@@Bobsyouruncle222 these laptops already upgraded sell for $400-$540 on eBay. Just check it out
legit knew I was going to subscribe within the first 30 seconds
Great video! Convinced me to nab a T440p after having a mishap with my 8570w, and I found a bluray drive for a really good price too! Sadly the trackpoint nublet on mine is reported not to work, but if that really bothers me I can always replace the keyboard later, lol. :P
EDIT: Oh! Almost forgot to mention, I managed to find one of the nvidia models for under $200! It helps if you run the serial number through the Lenovo parts lookup website, it'll tell you all about what specs the machine shipped with.
Do you have a link for a blu Ray drive?
NVIDIA GPU is useless, barely faster than the Intel HD.
I have an ideapad from 2012 that has sli 650ms and a 2.4-3ghz 4 cores 8 threads i7. As sli phased out I pulled the ultrabay gpu out and added better WiFi and a display driver in that area and added an easy way to setup an egpu. It runs vr games great now.
Eat your heart out Apple!!! This is how to make a laptop!
Love this! I really enjoy modifying computers to make them better and your videos are super inspiring. You rock! :)
“Build your own laptop”
“Build” and “Upgrade” are very much, very different
Colin McKenna True
Cat eye 456 I mean sure he did go way further than generally done in his upgrades but the bottom line is he just customized an already existing laptop.
@@PeachIceCreamy yeap but still it's not as much as I expected that he will build "one".
Now that's a project I cant wait to start. Just purchased one on eBay for £55 (delivered) without HDD or RAM.
I cannot hear you over the sound of your painted fingernails.
logan is returning to his high school years
You obviously never had a daughter
@@karlpetersson4251 or a niece .
I'm old what does mean when you only black finger nails on one hand? I guess I don't get out enough lol
That's disturbing
The W540 and W541 laptops are also a good option as well. I got one with the i7-4810QM, 16GB RAM, Quadro K2100M, and 3K IPS panel in like-new conditon for $350 shipped. Used ThinkPads are an amazing deal of you're willing to shop around eBay for a bit.
could you share the link or supplier for the laptop..thanks!
T440p (16GB RAM, No HDD): ~$120
i7-4910MQ: ~$180
CPU Cooling Fan & Heatsink: ~$50
Backlit Keyboard: ~$50
B140HAN01.3 Display: ~$60
M.2 SSD Heatsink: ~$10
Transcend 256GB M.2 SSD: ~$50
Kingston UV500 960 GB: ~$150
Total: $620
T470p i5-7300HQ, 16Gb, 500GB SSD, 1920x1080: $679.44
ebay.us/r0bmU7
I see absolutely no reason to get a thinkpad that's now 5 generations old and put all this effort in. I really like tinkering with stuff. but that's just not worth it. The T470p is just 2 generations old, has lots of power and a way more modern i5 CPU that's at least as powerful as the old i7 if not better.
Tip for the T470p, you want the i5 because you can't get the i7 without the useless nvidia card.
agree. Got myself an old T450(IPS 1080p, i5 5300, 256GB SSD, 8GB ram) just because it was 160 euros, and it's very good for daily browsing and media use, but to overspend so much on an old ThinkPad seems a bit unreasonable. But it's kinda cool to be able to upgrade laptop like that, guess it's more about that than anything else.
That's silly. I've upgraded my t440p and paid $320 all together after shopping around.
You can find a 37W tdp i7 on ebay for less than $100. You don't need a new fan and heatsink either. You just need to find a 37W TDP CPU, since the fan and heatsink are actually spec'ed to handle a quad core i7 with that tdp.
I haven't installed the m.2 SSD but instead opted for a SATA one and moved the other drive to a caddy in the optical bay that I got for $15 off of amazon. Get a crucial MX500 1TB SSD instead of the kingston. It can be had for cheaper and it's a better SSD.
LG LP140WF3 SPD1 is a superior display to the AUO one you mentioned. I found it for $45.
I didn't upgrade the keyboard because I actually prefer the feel of the non-backlit one. I considered buying one and they can be found for ~$20, not $50.
To be fair, the two ssds eat it a considerable chunk of that price differential. A mushkin enhanced source 3D TLC 2.5" SSD goes for $53 at newegg making this build a much more reasonable $470. With that being said, you can grab a Yoga L380 with an 8th Gen i5, 8gb of ram and a 256GB SSD on ebay for around $400. Thats 1080P IPS, Stylus support and likely, still with a warranty and a T480 isn't far behind pricewise. These mods are fun and that is part of the experience so that part can't be replaced. This, of course, comes from someone who refurbs unusable/broken thinkpads for sale as a hobby. X1 Carbon 1st Gen FHD Mod ala nitrocaster, T440 mod (similar to this video), W540 (screen replacement which is just as easy), and several full W540 full refurbs from junk/parts machines (3 of 4 complete).
@@shlepkovac3759 where on earth you getting such laptop for great prices?
I got my T440p with the 730m for about 350$
-i7-4600M (I could upgrade it, but nothing I do on it uses more than 4 threads, and the single core performance isn't worth it)
-8GBs RAM
-1080p IPS
-512GB SSD
-Backlit Keyboard
The only things I can or will upgrade is another SSD, RAM and the trackpad. Which as you've said is 50$ for the M.2 SSD, and a trackpad is about 15-30$, and probably 80$ for the RAM IF I think that's worth it. I think I'm only going to get a 2nd SSD for dual-booting and maybe the trackpad in the future, so really it'd only cost me
I am so glad this video popped up in my recommended
If you use the HDD sled, I want to save you from a massive headache. There's a VERY tiny switch on the side of the sled. If the switch in the wrong position, your drive will disappear from Windows when you PC goes to sleep. I spent wayyy too much time trying to figure out a software/OS fix. Turns out it just a hardware fix.
www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/9ulab5/fix_your_ultrabay_hddssd_device_not_showing_up/
Woah. This may fix this issue I've been having.
Just got my T400p off ebay with an upgraded i7 and a new screen for $275 including ship. Only 4g Ram and 500 gig hdd. So time for some upgrades. I saw your video before i bought it and came back to use your W of Warships link! I'm gonna give it a shot on this puppy as is, with keyboard and mouse.
I was just listening to this video and not watching it and I swore Alex Jones was upgrading this laptop...
The Alex Jones of the tech community ,forgotten :(. such a shame. .
I had the same thought but now I know it's true. He hasn't gotten totally rasped out like Jones, but he's not far away.
We all know what Alex Jones watches on his laptops...
Ha I was trying to figure out where I heard that voice before! Boom Alex Jones
Lmao
I recently stuck a 4910MQ in my 440P and holy cow does it fly. I benched my 440S against my new 440P build and my video renders are 11 times faster. That's an insane speedup. Only downside is the 4910mq runs hot as heck under full load. I run FreeBSD on mine though and there were tools for controlling pretty much everything. So, I undervolted the machine, did some custom fan curves and that got me MOST of the way there. Eventually, I had to buy some copper plate and then sanded the top surface of the heat pipe to clean copper, then overlaid a piece of 1mm thick copper all the way from the CPU heat spreader all the way to the CPU. It's something like 5-6" long and a couple inches thick and that did the trick. I can't get it to throttle or complain about thermals now and I still get to render my youtube video's at blazing speed. I have two extra 1TB SSD's in there now dedicated as swap too on top of the boot/OS disk. Needless to say, the machine is mister speedy and then some!
OMG. You're killing me. :) :)
Are you using a coffee filter paper to clean the heatsink?
Brillian!
Thanks so much for this tutorial. Very informative especially with the suggestions of the components. Followed this for my T440p Including the trackpad and it is so perfect with Linux. Thanks again.
Great video! Another suggestion: Remove the wifi card as it may actually be a nvme x2 port and you can instead insert a nvme drive into the spot. I've done this in the past successfully. Then you can buy a stripped down USB hub, chipset only, and shunt the laptop's internal USB wiring to the hub, with the hub split into 2 outputs, with one being the USB port on the laptop, and the other being an absolutely tiny USB wifi device, again chipset only. You'll need to plan out where to put these 2 extra devices, though this can easily be done by removing the SSD chipset from the drive enclosure and connecting the chipset sans drive enclosure. That'll free up a ton of room for a USB hub + USB wifi. Then simply clip the wifi antenna to the prior antenna wiring.
Once you do this, you now have a NVMe drive + likely a faster wifi, all for really cheap.
That sounds like a good way around the bios hack to upgrade the wifi card... I'll look into this. Thanks!
Hi, since I'm pretty much a noob for this, can you explain what do I need to do this on my t440p? Thans
Thanks for the info - did it, works great and was fun.
Thanks for the video! I recently had to find a 4 core laptop for a friend cheap so I just looked up the i7 4700m which came up with a few nice laptops. I ended up snagging him an hp zbook which had several nice features as well as feeling very rugged for $200. I7 4700mq, 16gb ddr3 1600 in 4 dims, msata port, 2.5 drive, quadro k1100m mxm card, and 15” screen. I think the 17” version has two 2.5” drive spots plus optical. A 1080p ips panel would look better, but I would stay at 720p for more fps in games. It would be nice to find a 720p ips panel!
You can play in 720p with a 1080p display
I had a 4900QM in an old W series I bought a while ago, that thing was COOKIN but it was fast as hell. I loved that thing, had so much character to it
Hi,
I really loved the video, but a full price listing would be interesting and I think benchmark are in order for both models.
Keep up the good work
I came across this laptop at a thrift store for $35. The only thing missing was the power supply. I found the power supply at a Goodwill for $7.00. This laptop had a brand new SSD that had never been used with a factory install of Windows 10 on it. I'll be doing some upgrades on it eventually. Currently it has an i5 dual core processor and 8 Gb of ram.
I have a ThinkPad T440p with an i7-4800MQ, 8GB RAM (I'm going to upgrade to 16GB), Samsung 250GB SSD, GeForce GT 730M, 1080p IPS panel, 3G modem, fingerprint sensor and backlit keyboard.
Woah sick build dude
A 3g modem lol
Nice!
I got one here in europe as new for €225 :1080p, 8gb, 4300M, backlit keyboard. Installed my old 256gb plextor ssd and voila . happy.
The dual core is fine for me i run linux n working with gimp its fast.
I am always mobile with it so a quadcore upgrade meh isnt a good idea i guess. The T440p is a monster with a 35 watt haswell that kills anything in its path even in 2020. cheers :D
I AM in europe too. I find a similar pice for these lenovo thinkpads in refurbish condition. Should i add backlit keyboard (where do i find them cheaply?) and more ram? Will it be better? I'll also use Linux (Mint cinnamon) in that laptop. Also i wonder if buying a better laptop than this (slimer, nicer) are these going to work the same? Thanks...
@@RHTORAS Slimmer laptops do not have the 37-45 watt cpu's. In my case it is my only computer so slimmer means nothing to me. It can not be so hard to find one with all the options. Just be patient. A lot of folks ordered the full hd panel and backlit keyboard. Heck there are even with ssd's already installed and 8 or more gb of ram / quad core etc.
@@auttark9815 37-45 watt has any benefit in the laptop? I would like to buy a laptop in the future slim and upgrade it. Will Lenovo be an ideal brand or not? Also i saw a video where you add the backlit keyboard and add coloured cellophane and make it RGB.
@@RHTORAS All kinds of thin and light thinkpads are available. Maybe T440s is much better for you, it weighs 500 grams less then the T440p. Funny project a rainbow keyboard. Good luck
Just installed T450 synaptics trackpad on T440p with Windows 10 (latest v1903) and got all trackpoint and touchpad functions including buttons working well. Try forum.thinkpads for driver mod and install including preventing win10 updating and thus screwing your work
thelash54
Thanks!
Can you give a specific link?
Thank you again.
thelash54
I think I found it.
forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=68&t=126860
@@GasPipeJimmy That's the link I used. I have installed the win7/8 driver and don't think I'll go to the win10 one (as per post #10 on the forum,) as the win8 one is working fine.
thelash54
Okay, I’ll try the Win 10 version first and if that goes sideways I’ll install the Win 8 driver.
Thanks.
@@GasPipeJimmy How' it go?
By far the best video on upgrading T440p....! thanks, bro...
Won't the SSD in the optical drive caddy be limited to SATA2 (3 Gbps)?
IMO the i7-4702mq is the CPU to go for it has the same 37watt TDP as the i5 while still having 4 cores 8 threads. Only downside is a lower turbo boost(3.2 GHZ) the upside is lower power use, less heat, longer battery life. It's a difficult CPU to find but I was lucky enough to find one locally for $90.
I'd rather have a WWAN card than a second SSD, you also forgot wire more cells in parallel with the battery, no sense in improving performance if you can't use it unplugged for any appreciable length of time
Wire more cells ??
@@JonathanJ21 pull the battery apart and connect more cells to it
MWB Gaming how ??
@@JonathanJ21 wire more cells in parallel with the cells in the original battery, it's really easy, positive to positive, negative to negative across the whole battery
@@JonathanJ21 heres one i prepared earlier imgur.com/a/hMPnQnu
THE BEST laptop upgrade video ever! Well done now do a x220 please, and thank you.
Touchpads suck, that's why the TrackPoint exists and that's why people like swapping the T450 touchpad in, with dedicated buttons for the TrackPoint.
Ok, I just subbed for the Windows 10 key retrieval part. That is the only reason why it prevents my oldest brother from doing a clean install.
can you please more details about that other trackpad, and it's config in linux because i use mainly Linux on my laptops, would be awesome
I did this full upgrade in late 2020 waiting for the right deals and built mine for $600 (512 M.2, 500gb PNY SSD, HyperX Ram 16gb, i7 4910MQ) So to all those complaining about not getting a good deal because of this video "Your Impatient"
how was it
@@helmi2577 Using it as my primary PC atm and loving it still
Right when I was thinking how nice it would be to have a laptop lol
4:08 In some games like Fortnite it uses the Nvidia gpu and the Integrated Gpu from the Cpu at the same time for more fps I noticed that on my laptop when I was playing fortnite
I want an upgradable AMD laptop , I would like to upgrade the CPU and everything.
I built one over a year ago and I have to agree. It is still my daily driver.
What was the extreme edition CPU that you mentioned, just curious
@Andre Bertachini Thinking its the 2 MX CPUS AKA the 4930MX and the 4940MX since those are 57watt parts compared to the 47watt part used in the both the video and the 4980HQ part you listed.
@Andre Bertachini Never said it could but the 4980HQ you posted about is a 47watt CPU and its the 2 MX CPUs that are the 57watt parts so the T440p should handle the 4980HQ just fine
4980HQ is soldered and the chinese PGA converted ones are pretty expensive and hard to get
My T440p did not come with the integrated camera, so I installed one and it is not working. I have tried numerous driver updates and reinstalled WIN 10 and it still is not working. I am in school and I really need the camera for virtual classes. I would greatly appreciate any help. Thanks
I recently upgraded my W540 in a lot of similar ways:
-Re-seated, cleaned and applied Thermal Grizzly to CPU/GPU cooler
-Upgraded to 32gb of RAM
-Upgraded to 1TB SSD
-Installed 3 button touchpad
If you're interested, I actually did get the Alps touchpad to work with Windows 10:
www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/d9wp5h/no_synaptics_trackpad_driver_functionality_w540/
Didn't need to upgrade the screen (it was already 3k), didn't upgrade the CPU, already came with a i7-4810, and didn't put an M.2 drive or DVD drive adapter in since the 1TB is plenty storage for me.
Loving this format of videos. Sweet work mate.
Whats up with the 1950s house wife haircut?
I thought it was a wig.
Its medival style, i thin channel host is a metal/goth those (black nails).
Nice video and straight forward i really enjoyed it and i am loving my T440P in 2022