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Posted: **Sun May 31, 2026 5:41 am**

hi. i brought a x220 earlier because i wanted to fall for the meme; it was kind of impulsive, and i didnt particularly dwell much on it because of the price ($50, same i got a toughbook for). it's only now that i really want to get thoughts on the following surrounding this brand now (i'm a cheapskate), mainly because of their shilling points and the divisiveness on the models.
i have some general thoughts here from my brief usage and view of thinkpads:

Build quality and durability is a known factor but having owned a more enforced and less plastic Toughbook (and it's just a spectacle to look at), I don't think it's much of a point.
Keyboard quality is pretty good, and the combined layout of the classic ones are pretty erotic... Trackpads are dogwater and the clit is only marginally better to use, other laptops have better tracking pointers
Screens are shit
Most supported brand for *boot BIOS replacements (+ Heads, whatever use that has), though unlike the Dell Latitudes (I have one but it's not the right model), they usually have to be flashed externally with more equipment to buy.
^The next point is if these are worth the hassle for something so in the background... stuff like GPU might take a hit for certain use cases
Usually easy to disassemble and purchase parts for, if you're going to upgrade or modify it.
^16GB of DDR3 ram is at least more worth it than the DDR2s for 8GB for my TB, and the CPU isn't soldered... that's if I really care about specs however.

i think rating these devices involve a lot of YMMV because luxury-poisoned people insist on having to browse the modern NSA web, [s]soydev[/s]vibe-coded software, 1440p videos and unoptimized gaming slop and IDEs which encourage people to purchase more hardware. nevertheless, i was wondering about others thoughts on these notorious, perhaps overrated devices and the other laptops they suggest in turn that do the freedom/quality/durability parts better, since there's not much threads on hardware here. apple shills need not apply, because i always happen to see macbooks brought up alongside thinkpads.

Posted: **Mon Jun 01, 2026 9:06 am**

malformed_jill wrote: Sun May 31, 2026 5:41 am Keyboard quality is pretty good, and the combined layout of the classic ones are pretty erotic...

Can you enlighten us more on the eroticism of keyboard layouts?

Posted: **Mon Jun 01, 2026 12:21 pm**

moeloli wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2026 9:06 am Can you enlighten us more on the eroticism of keyboard layouts?

i'll give a bit of autistic and very pretentious analysis for you since i have nothing else to do.
compared to the boring chiclet of my main laptop and the suggestive layout of my toughbook (everything is forced into a straight rectangle, and the bottom arrow keys going from "left, right, down" (up key is still above down) instead of "left, down, right" is mildly irritating), there's something a lot more exciting about classic thinkpad keyboards and their layouts, especially for the X series where the keyboard appears more bigger due to the compact size of the laptops.
i enjoy the visual appeal of them and their four main colors: black for the keys and their fuller size which all squeeze in together, white for letters and integers, and then the interesting use of blue not only for Fn and the combinations with it but for certain special keys, and red to highlight the exciting clit in the middle, and definitely encourages touching it.
more on the layout, there are certain unique quirks as compared to the other boring, uniform keyboards i've witnessed: how large and elongated certain keys are, making them easier to get to or just certain keys in general (very top keys have their own volume buttons and a 'thinkvantage' button which i do not know the use for). it feels a bit unconventional, imperfect but that sort of stuff is what i'm more attracted to.
seeing is one thing, and a very common thing in terms of modern sources of arousal: touching is another thing. the keys have great reception, audibly too. simple as
this is only exciting at the most: imagining true erotic keyboards would result in pretty nasty ideas for me (imagine the audio reception), but a better clit nub would be a start.

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...anyhow to ignore my pretension, i brought a bunch of stuff for my x220 because i forget the laptops i get at the market are usually stripped of their hard drive and ram (but LOL i got 16gb of ddr3 ram for $25), and i'll probably do a bios replacement just to do it. i'll probably sell it later to some schizo for something absurd because i dunno if i need those specs
also came with this

Posted: **Mon Jun 01, 2026 9:50 pm**

malformed_jill wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2026 12:21 pm
moeloli wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2026 9:06 am Can you enlighten us more on the eroticism of keyboard layouts?
i'll give a bit of autistic and very pretentious analysis for you since i have nothing else to do.
compared to the boring chiclet of my main laptop and the suggestive layout of my toughbook (everything is forced into a straight rectangle, and the bottom arrow keys going from "left, right, down" (up key is still above down) instead of "left, down, right" is mildly irritating), there's something a lot more exciting about classic thinkpad keyboards and their layouts, especially for the X series where the keyboard appears more bigger due to the compact size of the laptops.
i enjoy the visual appeal of them and their four main colors: black for the keys and their fuller size which all squeeze in together, white for letters and integers, and then the interesting use of blue not only for Fn and the combinations with it but for certain special keys, and red to highlight the exciting clit in the middle, and definitely encourages touching it.
more on the layout, there are certain unique quirks as compared to the other boring, uniform keyboards i've witnessed: how large and elongated certain keys are, making them easier to get to or just certain keys in general (very top keys have their own volume buttons and a 'thinkvantage' button which i do not know the use for). it feels a bit unconventional, imperfect but that sort of stuff is what i'm more attracted to.
seeing is one thing, and a very common thing in terms of modern sources of arousal: touching is another thing. the keys have great reception, audibly too. simple as
this is only exciting at the most: imagining true erotic keyboards would result in pretty nasty ideas for me (imagine the audio reception), but a better clit nub would be a start.

----

...anyhow to ignore my pretension, i brought a bunch of stuff for my x220 because i forget the laptops i get at the market are usually stripped of their hard drive and ram (but LOL i got 16gb of ddr3 ram for $25), and i'll probably do a bios replacement just to do it. i'll probably sell it later to some schizo for something absurd because i dunno if i need those specs
also came with this

Thank you for your input.

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Posted: **Wed Jun 03, 2026 11:47 pm**

I am on to my second thinkpad, if you get the right model for your needs they are good.
I came from dell latitude's before that, my opinion is that the thinkpad is better.
I left the latitudes because the ports started to disappear, although the thinkpads were not much better. No one wants to put SD card readers in laptops anymore.

I found the thinkpads are well built and can take a bit of knocking around, quite tough. But not specifically for rugged outdoor use.
I am currently using T14 Gen 5 AMD and am happy with it, great for linux and easy to take apart and upgrade.

Posted: **Thu Jun 04, 2026 3:28 am**

malformed_jill wrote: Mon Jun 01, 2026 12:21 pm LOL i got 16gb of ddr3 ram for $25)

16gb of ddr3 ram costs almost a third of a minimum wage in my country i'm gonna end myself bruh

Posted: **Thu Jun 04, 2026 3:49 am**

malformed_jill wrote: Sun May 31, 2026 5:41 am i think rating these devices involve a lot of YMMV because luxury-poisoned people insist on having to browse the modern NSA web, [s]soydev[/s]vibe-coded software, 1440p videos and unoptimized gaming slop and IDEs which encourage people to purchase more hardware. nevertheless, i was wondering about others thoughts on these notorious, perhaps overrated devices and the other laptops they suggest in turn that do the freedom/quality/durability parts better, since there's not much threads on hardware here. apple shills need not apply, because i always happen to see macbooks brought up alongside thinkpads.

Anything coming after the 775(or Centrino for mobile computers) platform is honestly bloat, Even browsing the glowing internet on older hardware is feasable (if you have installed ublock origin of course)
I find this fear among people from using older hardware a utter joke, most of these people only used cell phones in their life, they are used with the small lifespan of these devices and think that's normal, how things should work
Also older hardware is also simply made to last, unlike their average normie post-2014 hardware, i still have some 30yo 56k modem expansion cards lying around, I can't even see a sign of oxidation and they still work, I also have 3 samsung hard drives manufactured almost 20 years ago, they all work, and my newest & ex-main seagate hard drive just died, awesome innit?.

Posted: **Mon Jun 08, 2026 2:07 am**

The main reason I get more up to date laptops is the speed of the ports, I got sick of waiting around for my transfers to finish.

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