Was going through the garage when I found this machine. Asked my mom about it and she said she had bought my dad a maxed out X220. Currently in the works of making it my primary laptop.
Other than the poor TN displays, these X220's are still quite capable machines in 2023. Mine is an I7 2nd gen intel mobile CPU with 8GB RAM running Windows 10. I recently gave it a stress test. I had 2 browser windows open, each running a different 1080P RU-vid video, while typing in Word and also with the task manager open. Everything ran beautifully. The CPU never went over 70%. Not too shabby for an 12 year old laptop! The speakers are OK. Not great, but OK. They keyboard is a dream to type on.
And you gotta remember that Windows 10 is bloated spyware, so if it runs well on Win 10, just imagine how performant that laptop would be on a lighweight Linux distribution. These machines are really good.
@@Cavi587 runs very well on Linux. I have an i5 one, x230 fan upgrade, ips screen upgrade, dual storage upgrade, bios upgrade, wifi chip and BT4.0 upgrade, 9 cell OEM with 95% of its original life and a 6 cell off brand. Also have the docking station. Still plan to do 2-4 more upgrades to it including a red light upgrade, speaker upgrade, internal USB upgrade (BT daughter card is gone because my new wifi chip is dual) and usb-c charging upgrade. Overall though I did all the 'nicest' upgrades so far lol
It's a really great computer. I picked up second hand an I7 version and it totally rocks - in fact it is superior to my 12 month old HP Probook - keyboard is way, way superior and it is built to last - and can be repaired!
I have the I7 variant and still use it as my work computer, no issues and prefer it to the HP that work have me. Keyboard is brilliant and the whole experience is better. Much tougher than the HP. I love my 12 year old ThinkPad
@@accordinglyryan I also got a Dell Inspiron 7500 at a flea market 4 years ago and when I left it plugged in at home I decided to unplug it and it powered up with the battery and it lasted me an hour and a half. It also came with all its documentation and cd's along with a zip drive. I really should make a video on it
2nd gen is still pretty capable even today. unlike the old core 2 duo that is finally obsolete these Sandy Bridge i5s and up can actually run Windows 10 fine and play RU-vid videos in 1080/1440p with no issues at all
@@somethingiknow26 i think any laptop cpu is a downsized version of it's desktop counterpart anyway unless it's one of those laptops that directly use a desktop cpu.
i do not know why, but i use linux with xfce, touchpad, red buttom just run better than on windows.when i use win7, touchpad must press to click, it's very unconfortable. but on linux it can run like another laptop in 2023. NOW i use x220 with arch linux to write down these words😃
I'd say the X201 is the last good X-series ThinkPad with good trackpad since it didn't come with that cancerous integrated one. Had it on my X230 and X240, and I hated it. Otherwise, the form factor is lovely. Thankfully, Sandy Bridge is still usable today, even with Windows 11. Especially with an SSD and some RAM upgrade.
@@rasul1251 after 3 months, i must say it's really damn good, the build quality is quite good and it isn't heavy at all, my favorite part is the keyboard, man it gave me a good time, but for the software, i used linux mint as my main os for simple tasks such as coding and learning... and well it fulfilled all those, so yea it's my baby now
