Building the ultimate ThinkPad!

Building the Ultimate ThinkPad

In this video I built myself a new laptop and upgraded from my old, crappy laptop! This is such an upgrade in every way from my old 2012 MacBook Pro 10,2 and combined with linux and Coreboot or Librieboot this makes this the ultimate laptop for security and everyday use!

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SYSTEM SPECS
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System: Lenovo Thinkpad t1440p
CPU: Intel Core i7-4910MQ @3.9GHz W/ HD Graphics 4600
RAM: 16gb DDR3
OS: Arch Linux
Storage: 256gb SKHynix SSD
- Upgraded backlit keyboard
- upgraded trackpad

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MUSIC
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[eg]

I hate being the old man who says these beaten to death phrases, but they really don't make laptops like they used to. I love the old T20 keyboards, they were the best.

[notyoutube]

T440p is the Framework before Framework was a company

[chncchnc]

arch, astolfo, pink psp, thinkpad, windowmaker, anime wallpaper, screenfetch. good memories of /g/.

[themobyone]

I'm a simple man. I see you rip out windows and install Arch Linux, I upvote.

[CherryColaWizard]

It's so cool seeing people tinker with computers like this!

[OnTheRocks]

I'm not a Linux knower by any means, but a while back I put Mint on an old Toshiba that was well past Windows 11's dumb requirements, and it breathed life into the old girl. It surprisingly had a socketed dual core Ivy Bridge from the factory, and a quad core i7 plopped right in with no complaint. Even the original cooling system has no problems with it, probably because it was so chonky to begin with. It was surprisingly easy to install Mint as a first-timer. A+. Would recommend. Also Thinkpads are awesome, I have a 3rd gen T14s with a ryzen chip and it's great.

[ConnorTechYT]

Used a T440p myself, honestly one of the best laptops I've ever used. Great upgrade capabilities and still such a solid machine in 2024. If you got a 1080p display on it that would be chef's kiss. Congrats on the new laptop!

[hillside]

Just so you know, Windows will "use" 2gb of ram at idle (when you have 8gb total), however, the OS doesn't actually need all of that RAM. It just utilizes it since it is there and not currently being used to make certain processes in the OS run faster. Once you started running RAM intensive apps, the amount of RAM the OS uses will be scaled back to the minimum. Windows has RAM management built into it basically.

[xteen]

2:15 incredible choice of music, thank you for that moment

[Srandista]

I just got T470p for $29 and man, what a beast. It's also fully specced out model, with QHD display, i7-7820HQ, 32 GB RAM and 512 GB NVMe. It's running absolute circles around my previous T470 and that display, it's just on another level. Super glad I got this machine, don't think I'll be upgrading for like half a decade at least.

[oidpolar]

Aluminium case is a huge benefit actually. It provides a way better heat dissipation any plastic casing does

[gusfm]

Nice to see another windowmaker user! I've been using it on my work pc for more than 10 years. It's fast and just works.

[peyton_uwu]

11:48 same here with my Dell Latitude E5540, if it has a lower-wattage charger, it'll complain in the BIOS as well as setting the "On Demand Clock Modulation" to 33%, which essentially inserts "idle clocks" to artificially tank the CPU performance to a crawl to make the OS unusable while the laptop was charging on the wrong charger.
We love to see it!

[remoschramm]

i love my t440p and upgraded it immensely
fullhd display, 16gb ram, 256gb msata ssd + 1tb hdd
also did a cpu upgrade from an i5 to an i7
runs like a charm (installed LMDE6)

[brunowithouth]

Very cool upgrade! Just yesterday i was plannning to get a T440p and uprade it with a Intel i7-4940MX, a 1920x1080 IPS display and a better trackpad, i see yours it great. Also, don't forget to unplug the battery before messing with laptops

[jolness]

Balling on a budget! Thinkpads are great. Lenovo in general has kept up the build quality of IBM on their business oriented boxes. I grabbed an m75q tiny gen 2 refurbished with a Lenovo warranty for $250, grabbed 64GB of memory and have a nice little 8c/16t box for proxmox (mostly just alpine Linux but it’s been fun for diving back in to gentoo and having a spot to avoid blowing up my main PC). If I didn’t have MacBook Pro work bought for me (I know I know, but I do iOS dev work as well and with the new processors it’s quick and POSIX compliant.

[subarulenz]

Just got a T430 a few months ago. Love the old thinkpads.

[sakibshadman]

Been using POP OS! for last 2 years. solid as rock. best distro.

[yvvkiRika]

The Astolfo figurine was a cherry on the cake

[Xenon-wbxf]

Astofolo ✅
Tux ✅
Anime Waifu wallpaper ✅
Thinkpad ✅
Arch ✅
Widowmaker ✅

man got all the things that got me into linux, absolutely goated build.