Low hanging fruit, but whatever. It is what it is.
Refurbished ThinkPads are available in countries where Framework, System76, and Pine64 do not ship.
Besides, ThinkPads are really well-built machines that perform well for everyday tasks at a fraction of their (or the aforementioned competition’s) original price.
I love my two machines, which are from before Lenovo took over completely. Their keyboards, port selection, and repairability are almost unparalleled compared to today’s competition.
x220 ftw!!
I like my system 76!
My work laptop is a Dell Precision. It was a “data science” model that came with Ubuntu. Wiped Dell’s modified Ubuntu and put vanilla Ubuntu on it and now running Nixos. Works great. There was a weird period when using triple monitors with their dock with an intermittent issue on boot where resolutions and monitors were not being detected. Cause was Nvidia drivers. It eventually got resolved and it was easy enough to rollback the drivers to one that worked.
Cause was Nvidia drivers.
This should be on a t-shirt
The older models were also very repairable and customisable. Most newer ones aren’t. This is a problem for some users.
None of these have an OLED or DCI-P3 coverage so… pass
It seems there are OLED panels you can just buy and install into framework.
I tried to buy a system 76 pangolin but they don’t ship to Australia (yet?)
Sad
But in Australia you CAN get an old Thinkpad, so…
Need grunt
System76 and Framework are mostly North America and Western Europe. Pine64 might sell in Australia.
Framework have been shipping to Australia for ages. I ordered in December 2022 and it drop shipped from Taiwan to rural Australia in about a week. It was faster than ordering parts from pccasegear though that isn’t saying much.
I have been a fan of System76 since I saw some stickers at a conference nearly two decades ago. I think they have good intentions but unfortunately a badge engineering company for most of their existence. The quality hasn’t always been there from their ODMs and foreign RMA bothers me. You can buy a clevo or tong fang from local resellers and cover it in linux stickers.
The used market in Australia is bad for most things unfortunately.
Lol ok enjoy your lenovobios and being trapped on x86 forever
If you know anything about Lenovo you would know that if ARM laptops started to have high market share they would have like 35 mediocre models on offer in a year.
Some of the think pad lines are still good but their consumer offerings and a couple of the think pad lines are trash.
What’s wrong with x86 all of a sudden?
ARM is still pretty damn experimental compared to x86.
Bullshit mostly. x86 is fine & has been getting a lot more power efficient (if you can get a work day’s worth of power, you have met the benchmark). Wake me up when RISC-V is here.
Thinkpad not always was lenovo’s
So is shooting a new event in the Olympics? Why haven’t we gotten these kind of badass pictures before this year?
in 2021 (and 2016) we had a Russian woman wearing a witcher pendant everyone liked.
https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/4xivob/this_russian_shooter_has_a_witcher_medallion_from/
Oh, great.
🤨
Dell E6400 can be flashed with libreboot without tools and is easily obtainable from Ebay.
my recommendation: a second-hand, 16 year old acer aspire one that runs windows xp, ms-dos and the 32bit version of puppylinux…if it works it works. (yeah its just my setup)
been working flawlessly on original hardware since 2008
i even play games and make music on that thing
Good luck opening more than like 5 browser windows on those old thinkpads
The refurbished thinkpads you find are usually three years old after the companies who lease them buy new ones for the users.
You can do a lot of things with a three year old thinkpad…
ah fair enough, my bad, I thought people are always talking about the older style thinkpad
here it’s typically early-to-mid 2010s thinkpads being sold, so you’re probably getting a laptop with horrible performance
4th and 6th gen intel isn’t too bad yet (which would be early 2010s), especially for a Linux desktop/laptop. I wouldn’t go older than that just because 4th and 6th gen is so readily available for so cheap, but they certainly aren’t anywhere near e-waste yet. Mid-2010s would be more like 7th-9th gen Intel which is newer than all but one of the computers in my home.
I literally use a laptop with a mobile i7-6700 as a daily web browsing computer (and I tend to keep over a hundred tabs open) and really don’t feel any slowness. I’ve got a desktop with an i5-4590 running 5 different Minecraft servers (a couple of which have over 300 mods running) plus most of my homelab services as well. They’re not for the graveyard yet!
well, the i5-5300u definitely is, at least for my use cases. it took so long to compile a diesel-actix rust project that the battery died before it finished (it was at 100%), and it can’t even run fucking Minecraft. even a raspberry pi can run Minecraft!
it took so long to compile a diesel-actix rust project that the battery died before it finished
Wait why are you compiling on battery?
and it can’t even run fucking Minecraft.
In what way? My wife plays minecraft with several hundred mods on a (desktop) i5-4560 and I have 5 Minecraft servers running on a desktop i5-4590, and I’ve played plenty of Minecraft on my laptop with a i7-6700u (vanilla, lightly modded, heavily modded, etc.) so I’m confused by what you mean by “can’t run Minecraft”
Wait why are you compiling on battery?
power strip died and i hadn’t realised.
In what way? My wife plays minecraft with several hundred mods on a (desktop) i5-4560
different cpu. I’m talking about the i5-5300U specifically. Not some other i5 of the era. Also, this doesn’t really matter but you’re addressing 4th and 6th gen, while the i5-5300U is, obviously, 5th gen.
Yes it is a different CPU, of almost the exact same age and architecture. I don’t have a 5300u otherwise I’d be able to compare directly. I’m pointing to similar processors (remember this was about the time that Intel stagnated. They didn’t improve much from Haswell (4th gen) until about Coffee Lake, and kept continuously refreshing Skylake (6th gen) for years. By memory 5th gen was just rebadged Haswell as well) I do have that I have relevant experience with.
On the Minecraft front I don’t think it’s the processor, I suspect you either have a configuration issue, or a thermal budget limitation. I had a Ryzen laptop that was really good, except it did not have the thermal capacity to maintain a workload, and would throttle itself all the way down to 600Mhz if I was doing something CPU and GPU intensive for a long time (such as running a bunch of VMs and trying to browse the web while using an external monitor)
You can install linux on it, you know? Everyone installs linux on thinkpads, you know?
I have got so many used ThinkPads. Everyone in my house has one.
Can I have one
You get a ThinkPad! And you get a ThinkPad! Everyone gets a ThinkPad! :oprah_wave:
Me too plz
Can I have one IBM ThinkPad 701 it’s old and it’s not like you’re using it anyways.
are pinebooks even meant for regular use?
Opensource chromebooks. Yep.
Been ThinkPad User for over 10 years. Edge E135 X220 X260
This year was the first Time in about 16years I bought a non used machine and it was a framework. As much as I adore the good ol ThinkPad the recent developments regarding repairability/statement from Lenovo are turning me off more and more. And my framework makes me happy every time I use it …
So I don’t know.
