Maybe it just wants to enlighten you...

Nice retro post!

Personally, I'd rather not do delicate soldering operations on the machine I use for work (that's why it's best to have spares). If you think it's worth risking your T14 Gen 2 for a chance to get an internal LAN port, be my guest. This. Why bother, anyway? The T14 Gen 2 is three generations old alr...

I've just learned that the new P1 Gen 7 will come with LPDDR5x LPCAMM2 modules for up to 64GB of RAM. I can't help to think Lenovo knows the EU is going to pass legislation soon on serviceable electronics and they are starting to integrate that requirement into new designs. Given that laptops are ba...

With previous Thinkpad P1 models, there has been an enormous scandal that the firmware blocked 8TB size M.2 SSD drives. This rendered the Thinkpad P1 gen 3 etc. a useless piece of junk, only good to donate or throw in the garbage bin. I understand your frustration, mein freund! But at the same time...

Sell it. Get another with the Ethernet port.

If I remember it was like 64MB of RAM with a 233MHz processor to run XP. Many things are different now, compared to how they were back then. One thing that comes to my mind is simple text. Back in the day, when I learned programming (C and assembler), it was pretty easy to manage memory for string ...

I've never used the maximum volume. I tend to care for my ears...

But I'll check and get back to you.

The ai is just a text regurgitator. Oh, come on. You know better than that... My opinion is the restrictions are to encourage general public people to replace their otherwise fully functional and adequate PCs. These are the people who use the PC as a TV or as a game console or something else barely...

Ivy bridge is more than capable of whatever the pitiful gm965 can do. Performance is quite poor but it's not only that. It's also the lack of features and support. What good is OpenGL 2.1 acceleration when most software now expects 3.2 and up? For practical purposes, if the software doesn't support...

If you're really serious about wanting more performance you do need a new PC. Problem with vintage Thinkpads are not the CPUs, but the GPUs. Only very recently intel began shipping decent GPUs with the Iris Xe graphics. Just to give you an idea of what the problem is look at this: https://www.noteb...

Quick answer: get yourself an X1 Carbon Gen 6. Believe it or not, you can still get one new in box (no warranty, however), I've seen them floating on eBay. Not cheap, of course, but no surprises compared to buying used. That way you get a nice format AND a nice keyboard (as close as you are going t...

That's a T14s, thinner, with soldered RAM (better get it with 32GB of RAM). Pretty good deal. The picture in the ad says 20UHS05Y00. Lenovo site says it's got a B140HAK03.2. It's FHD 300 nit. Nothing special but also pretty decent. Gen 1 and 2 can use the side mechanical dock. They all have USB-C ch...

It's difficult to understand from a photo. In a cool environment, it colder to touch, compared to the other parts of the laptop? Magnesium is a heat conductor, plastic is a heat insulator. Place ice in a plastic bag and put it in a corner of the lid. It's it's magnesium, you should be able to feel ...

My X280 with 8650U consumes 3-4W during light browsing. I'd expect the larger size, larger resolution screen to raise that consumption to around 5-7W. In order to get that consumption I use Firefox with disk cache disabled (won't wake the SSD) and NoScript to block bloatware. I also have 264ify to f...

This is my first time with an x260 so I thought I'd ask instead of grabbing the screwdriver. Good thinking. If I end up keeping it are there any special precautions I should be careful about when I open it to have a look. It may not be your case, but since most modern machines have built-in batteri...

Have a look at the Lenovo M900 Tiny . I got one (with the i5-6600T CPU) to replace my desktop tower. (The CPU is socketed, so can be upgraded). They are all over eBay for very reasonable prices. This. I've got three, excellent machines. I also got them with 6500T processors and I upgraded them with...

L570. I had never considered that model. Seems like a decent retro-machine. Problem with "obscure" models is that you're going to have trouble getting parts later on. I purchased an X280 recently and immediately noticed that there are far less parts floating around, compared to more common models. I...

T14 of course. Sometimes you can find a P14s (the "workstation" variant) cheaper just because people tend to know that model less. They are basically the same. If you go intel, I recommend you G2. All displays of that generation are IPS and even the basic one (250 nits) will look good coming from a ...

"IT BELONGS IN A MUSEUM!" Hmmm. I don't think and R61 does. Actually, the last message was about your general activity as an antique system preserver. What I said earlier was about those R61s specifically. I don't think there is much interest in an R61 at this point. A working 386 in great conditio...

I just saw your signature. That's what museums are for: to fund people like you. The open market is not really interested in such things...

They'd probably be worth twice as much by stripping off the LCD, keyboard, HDD, memory, but equally I could be sitting on a pile of parts for another 10 years, which is harder to whittle down to nothing than 6/7 complete machines. Cut your loses and move on? This is literally the definition of the ...

HAHAHA. Sorry.

AWESOME.

Windows 10. Believe it or not, unless you computer is really ancient (which is not), you're better off with the new OS because ever since M$ pushed the componentized driver model, whenever they update a driver for some other obscure device, you can usually benefit from it. And they update the catalo...

Hey fellas, I did my homework and, among the cheapest, almost no-name "brands", I found a solid source of super cheap Chinese stuff that seems to be quite reliable. I'm not sure if you can get this stuff in the US; it seems squarely targeted at the Third World (tm). But if you can find: Brand: JUHOR...

I don't think there is anything wrong with the machine itself. It's simply that those tiny modules Lenovo used back then simply suck. Range is small because antennas are small and are surrounded by the magnesium skeleton. That's why they switched to combo Mini PCIe cards that do both WIFI (in PCI ex...

Hey, The first time this thing happened to me, it was with my P14s G1, which was the first "modern" machine I had in a while. Even when I turned it off, it would self discharge slowly over time, to the point that the next time I turned it on (say, after a week of not using it) it would be completely...

It seems all makers are making this micro towers and not much room to upgrade, even for Lenovo. You can still build your own machine. They still sell ATX motherboards. There are literally dozens of nice cases for them to suit your taste. Such motherboards still come with regular PCI Express slots a...

Can the replacement be a little bigger? If so, get yourself an L14 Gen 4. It has two DIMM slots for a whopping maximum RAM of 64GB. The battery in the L series used to be smaller, but in this generation you can get up to 63Wh, which is even higher than a T14. All the features available on the T seri...