Whenever I get a laptop I usally do:
ThinkPad (and Toughbook) thread
Joshua Anderson
Matthew Parker
never done anything to my x220. been using it for many years now sometimes even outside
Jackson Young
And now my very first ThinkPad is officially on the way. Excited to get one and see what all the hype is about! I decided to grab a T400.
Julian Bailey
honest question: what's the downside to running Windows if you never connect to the internet and just use it to run old games?
Oliver Sanchez
They're pretty nice.
Nathan Wright
Yep, what he said. Isopropyl will clean more shit than you could see was on it in the first place.
Toothbrush to clean the fan (or buy a replacement online, just don't get shit ones from AliExpress). Compressed air can to blow out the heatsink(s). Replacement keyboard if the old one was too far gone.
WiFi card can often also be replaced with a much better (and more power efficient!) one if whitelist is removed.
Ryan Roberts
What are the go-to thinkpads nowadays?
All I can find are guides from 2014~2017. Is it still the same?
What I want to do is go to college, be able to browse the web normally and not emulate Excel through Wine.
Charles White
Tenko with a Tenkopad!
Lincoln Howard
What would be a nice distro/de for a x230 nowadays?
If I'm going to use nothing but an SSD, is it ok to run on 4GB without a swap partition or should I get another 4gb stick instead?
The one I want to buy has an i5-3320M and probably hd graphics 3000.
Nathaniel Anderson
If the whitelist is removed, what would be the best wifi card that is the most power effiecient to install that is also completely FOSS if I use linux?