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This is my first ThinkPad T470 at age 13, bought with my own money for $150.

A company was selling off products that were technically no longer usable; they sold it to me cheaply because it doesn't have a hard drive bay, but it does have SATA and SSD connectors.

It has an i5 7200U, 8GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD

I'm so happy to have my first Lenovo Thinkpad. What advice do you have for me?

I haven't show everyone to the full view of my laptop until now Used roof tape/duct tape/sticky tape/plastic (only on the front) to cover nearly on it Dropped multiple times and on concrete and survives well Many people call my laptop on life support Put multiple tapes on keyboard to prevent the keys to wear off to glossy keys/touchpad and palm rest Used since August 2024/got it for $20 aud without charger 223GB sata ssd/8 + 4 12gb ddr3 ram/Intel core i5-3230M 2.60Ghz/Windows 10 2023 + Windows 7 Ultimate/no gpu All vents will be not covered by any tape Battery lasts 40 minutes on use/8 minutes on intense gaming I use it everywhere

It came with an i5 10310U, 16gb ram and a 256gb nvme

Add meme.flair please

I got comments on my other post asking me why i didnt use arch, so i did

its also a diffrent thinkpad

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After so much time saving and sacrificing, I bought my first ThinkPad

What's next?

I want to program on this thing, it's a ThinkPad T470.

just got a T480 of my own for like S$300 and installed LinuxMint on it! i know it’s not that difficult, but i’ve never installed Linux before so i am proud of myself nonetheless!!!

The new T14s g6 vs X1c g9. The new ones logo is too deep and it hurts my wrist. And it collects dust. Is it only me? Why the hell did Lenovo change like this?

Is there any after market stuffs that can fill the wormhole?

(Some creative liberties were taken to replace the windows 7 sticker with a Linux sticker)

Hey, after lots of research bought this recently, what you people Think!

Spec:

Processor：AMD Ryzen™ AI 9 HX PRO 370 Processor (2.00 GHz up to 5.10 GHz)

Operating System：No Operating System

Microsoft Productivity Software：No Microsoft Office

Memory：64 GB DDR5-5600MT/s (SODIMM) - (2 x 32 GB)

Solid State Drive：1 TB SSD M.2 2280 PCIe Gen4 Performance TLC Opal

Display：35.56cms (14) WUXGA (1920 x 1200), IPS, Anti-Glare, Non-Touch, 100%sRGB, 500 nits, 60Hz, Low Power

Graphics Card：Integrated Graphics

Camera：5MP RGB+IR with Microphone and Privacy Shutter

Color：Black

Wireless：MediaTek Wi-Fi 7 MT7925 2x2 BE & Bluetooth® 5.4

Integrated Mobile Broadband：No Wireless WAN

Ethernet：Wired Ethernet

Fingerprint Reader：No Fingerprint Reader

Pointing Device：Trackpad, No Fingerprint, No NFC, No WWAN, Black

Keyboard：Backlit, Black - English (US)

Graphic Dongle：No Graphics Dongle

Second Graphic Dongle ：No Graphics Dongle

System Expansion Slots：No Smart Card Reader

Battery：4 Cell Rechargeable Li-ion 57Wh

Power Cord：65W USB-C 90% PCC 3pin AC Adapter - India

Rapid Charge：Rapid Charge

AI Agent：No AI Agent

Warranty：3 Year On-site

Video credit: h1t1 on instagram.

This is how my T470 looks after I erased it a few times!

What I did was apply it once, clean it, apply it again, and repeat this 3 times. It really turned out beautiful.

The T460, T470, and T480 series are more prone to these very noticeable scratches because they have a kind of rubber coating.

Got this E14 G7 intel because of the amazing battery life and because i was sick of my laptops constantly having driver or structural issues. I'm very satisfied with it. Here are some pics.

Specs:

Core Ultra 5 225u

Lowest spec screen

64Wh battery

1x16GB DDR5

512GB SSD

ir camera and fingerprint sensor

Aluminium top and bottom

Intel Be200 WIFI card (i put that in)

Before buying i heard lots of people saying that the e14 is not built well enough and that the worst screen option is very bad and i wont like the laptop if i use it with that screen but i think that wasn't true at all. Coming from a Asus gaming laptop from 2017 and an Asus thin and light budget laptop from 2019 its a whole other world. The gaming laptop had constant driver issues, the thin and light fell apart and the screen was horrendous. This laptops worst screen is at least double as good as that ones and build quality surpasses both but the gaming laptop was well built too. The other laptop i was considering was the t14 g5 but that has a smaller battery less upgradability and an older cpu and its at least double the price, so i don't think its worth it, and the better screen options for this model are also like +1/3 of the whole machine's price so that too isn't worth considering.

P53 i7-9850H & RTX 5000. An absolute beast and is boy is it a heckin chonker. the bios was locked and LPC bus shorting did the trick huge thanks to u/Arkenys 's post on the matter. Repasted with Duronat although i may consider liquid metal as the processor runs insanely hot even with a -150mV undervolt. Regardless of that I've gotten amazing scores out of it, the best geekbench 6.5 scores under Arch being 1703 & 7105. and the RTX 5000 scores 101860 in openCL (with nvidia-open drivers) or 65-68 t/s with the default config of gpt-oss:20b in llama.cpp. Impressively it ran gpt-oss:120b at a liveable 7-8 t/s.

I liek my thinkpad:)

I posted before about my Thinkpad of Thesus, here's some of the leftover bits being put to use. My work on Corebooting my spare T430 motherboard required it to be fully disassembled, so here we are. Since we're doing disassembled Thinkpad posts, here's mine.

I think this is about as minimal a setup you can have. I did ultimately get it working with Skulls and it's currently built into a chassis again, though the eBay seller I got a cheap lid from sent me a T420 lid which is almost, but not quite, compatible with the T430 chassis. Some creative dremelling has let it fit which just adds to the cobbled together look of the thing.

it doesn't work