Interesting detail that the X230T was shipped with a normal DisplayPort where the X230 / X230i were shipped with a mini DisplayPort. I sniped a regular X230 2 weeks ago for 120€ as my first laptop. It came in pristine condition with top specs (i7-3520M, backlight keyboard etc.). After replacing the thermal paste and a clean windows 10 install I upgraded it with a 500GB SSD, 128GB mSATA and 2x8GB DDR3L RAM. For a 10 year old laptop this thing runs like a demon, is super light and has battery life for hours. The only things I don't really like is the display and trackpad which are both really low resolution. But in terms of price / performance the X230 models are still relevant in 2023 for sure!
That is awesome and I am happy to hear you are enjoying the X230! It is too bad that there are no 1080p panels, but it is what it is. Still a solid laptop, I agree. I just did a similar review on the X240 if you want to check that out. Different aesthetics but similar performance.
Got the same model, also with multitouch! It was a pain to find one in the EU. Couple of notes: Instead of MS Paint, I would've showcased how the Wacom tablet and stylus work in Photoshop or GIMP, for sketches it's actually pretty good, the poor man's Cintiq. You can get the screen to auto-rotate when you flip it and close it in tablet mode by downloading a Lenovo driver specific for the X220T and X230T. For anyone considering running it as a daily driver, I suggest installing 1vyrain as a BIOS, it removes the whitelist for the wireless cards and allows for the installation of a modern Intel AX210 with WiFi 6e and bluetooth 5.3, futureproofing the machine. It also frees the connector where the bluetooth module is housed and it can be replaced with an internal USB 2.0 port for dongles and shit. It also allows to unlock the TDP and to overclock the Intel HD Graphics 4000 for marginally better gaming performances on older titles. That's about it.
I totally agree about GIMP or Photoshop, but I don't use either of them regularly and there is only so much time in the day. Cool BIOS trick, I am not aware. I would love to look into that next time I come into some more of these.
How much battery life does this laptop have? I'm thinking of getting me one, but I'd use it for college note taking and I'm a bit worried it won't last that long, keeping in mind one entire class can last up to 5 hours. Would you recommend it for this particular use?
Well, a good thing to note is that this is a 11 year old laptop. It would probably perform quite well for that use, but a battery that old probably won't hold a great charge. You might need to purchase a third party battery and then switch between the two. It's a gamble when buying used, but if the price is right I'd say go for it.
Well, to add a serial port you would either need a docking station or a USB to serial port adapter. You would have to check the specifications of either option.
Interesting, my stylus on x220t only works when screen is in default position(not rotated), no matter if I use windows or Linux. It seams that either x230t is upgraded to allow for rotation, or my x220t is slightly broken.
@@HaisteComputerRepair Tried different drivers and settings, and I'm also dual botting linux where I get the same problem. In unrotated screen the mouse moves normally when using stylus, but in any other orientation it floats in reversed way. If I move the stylus up mouse moves down etc.
Please, can you share your x230t Windows 10 driver? ! The buttons at the bottom of my x230t screen have never been activated and cannot be used! grateful!
Try this pcsupport.lenovo.com/us/en/products/laptops-and-netbooks/thinkpad-x-series-tablet-laptops/thinkpad-x230-tablet/downloads/ds027627-tablet-button-driver-2-for-windows-10-32-bit-64-bit-81-64-bit-8-64-bit-thinkpad?category=Mouse,%20Touchpad,%20Keyboard%20and%20Pen
Well, I would say yes, though keep in mind this is 3rd gen Intel. The i7 is 2 core 4 thread (a faster version of the i5). I do neither of those things so I can only estimate.
I'm not too sure, I don't know if there are different display panel connections. It might help to look up the X230T and X230 panels and see if they match. What is causing you to consider this?
@@HaisteComputerRepair Really hard to find x230T with i7 thats not over 250 Euros...Overall its hard to find ant X230t in Europe without paying 200+ Euros and I am not paying that much for and i5 let alone i3..
@@phobiac281 I totally empathize with that. I don't think the motherboard would fit the X230 chassis without some modifications. One has Mini DisplayPort and one has full size DisplayPort. As for the layout, I would have to take a look at the boards side by side to make sure. They are similar in size, but are two different laptops. If I get a chance I will try to do some research. In the meantime, let me know if you find a solution.
which windows version do use on this laptop? Because I bought one about two years ago and it came with windows 10 pro but had some issues like the fingerprint device didn't work. I installed windows 11 on it, but the problem is still the same even worse, and I'm intending on installing an old version of windows, so I want to find out which one is best suitable.
The newest version of Windows at the time of filming. I didn't make note. Did you try installing the Win 7 drivers for the fingerprint reader? Did you double check that it is enabled in BIOS?
@@AhmedAllam-22 I haven't really tried to activate a fingerprint reader in Win 10 since an x220. Sorry, I would test it out if I still had one of these.
