My Adventures with ThinkPads

Yes, I used more ThinkPads than an average person would use in a lifetime, which is twenty at the time of this recording, and I loved it. I purchased only one of them as a brand-new machine to switch out from my Apple MacBook Pro and get back into Linux. The rest were purchased through online auctions on eBay, my favorite eCommerce platform.

Segments:
00:00 Welcome
00:43 How many is "too many"?
01:06 What kinds of machines were they?
02:24 How much did I lose, or did I make money?
02:54 Why did I do this?
04:00 The adventures at a high level
06:20 My learnings
09:08 I'm settling down, maybe?
10:21 What can you learn from this?
11:13 Conclusion
11:57 Outro

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If you read till here, thanks for your valuable time!

[needforcarbs]

As a member of ThinkPad tinkerers anonymous, I haven't bought a ThinkPad on eBay for two weeks!

[gangov]

thanks for sharing your story, super interesting to hear it

[stuartgreen]

Kinda similar. T480s i5, 24gig. I’m very happy with it.

[TheBlueThird]

I have several T480s i5 all with 32GB ram. I love them.

[psyconut]

Been a while !!! since the last video.

[OzzY]

Whats the name of the bootmanager with fallout design?

[Asadc]

Besides work projects on these like programming do you do light gaming on them?

[sshivam]

I m waiting for the x1 carbon gen 12 with 120hz oled.

[ashutoshjha]

I have always felt that of every generation every year slim line of T series will always be best bet

[ashutoshjha]

I have come to respect x280 for rough tough small laptop.

[chimpinator]

what phone is that at 3:27? looks slick

[ArthropodSpidey]

4:57
An example of why enunciation is important. It sounds like you said "my ex-wife's stream." 🤣🤣