Restoring Lenovo T420 - ( Upgrades + Windows 11 + eGPU ) 

Here is the Pin :D

Thanks bro

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@@ComputersAndTechAndAndrew in this laptop you should install a modded bios because of if you have 16 gb ram and a eGPU it will make the cpu run at 100%. The bios doesn't really support these combos

Agreed

I'm getting one for 80$ with i5 and 320gb HDD but without battery I want it for coding, accounting, and other day to day stuff should I buy it ?

Yes I would recommend buying it because the keyboards of the old style and the new are great and the repairability is amazing and it just lasts forever. I have had my t480 since it came out in 2018 and it’s never gave me problems I couldn’t fix

Ok bro we get it you don’t need to comment it every time

@@slowly_r7849 Last time i commented it was not on the laptop. So its my first time using the one i fixed

congrats!

damn that saved up money to not buying a new one nice :D

@@slowly_r7849 😂😂😂

Try to buy a 35watt cpu upgrade with PGA (NOT BGA) and has integrated graphics. That 45watt CPU will run, but it's too hot for the standard heatsink and fans to cool it efficiently, too much heat may slowly kill it!

@@lQuadXl thanks you for the advice, i was looking for this, you saved me, and the poor t420

I'm getting one t420 for 80$ with i5 and 320gb HDD but without battery I want it for coding, accounting, and other day to day stuff should I buy it ?

@@as8kay i mean 1. it's big and hefty (2.5 kg, like 1 inch think). i certainly would not want to lug that everywhere every day. 2. for accounting (spreadsheet, word editing), if you are using software like office it should be fine. for coding ,if it's light personal stuff or just practicing linux it should be fine too, if you are doing basic day to day web browsing or youtube its also fine. but if you are using online office software like google docs, it will lag like shit, if you code big projects it will lag like shit; bro it's a 2011 dual core i5, even a $200 cheap android phone today has a more powerful CPU in terms of raw performance ability. 3. I stopped using the T410 just a few months after my original comment to switch to a 2020 T14 thinkpad for college. the T410 was alright for my middle school and highschool use of just google docs, light roblox and web surfing but no way I could take it to or use it in college. so i'm using my T410 now just as a spare linux machine for testing and learning linux.

Actually in 1998, IBM owned the ThinkPad brand. Lenovo acquired the brand in 2004.

@@DJTydalOfficial actually 2005.

99% Isopropyl Alcohol can remove that coating, so does WD-40 - it doesn't take much to remove it with the right kind of solvent. It is time consuming though.

Yeah, just soak a microfiber with wd40 or rubbing alcohol, and the coating will wear off for a clean look and feel

Your lap name pleeez

why used? a brand new 512gb Kingston SSD costs just roughly 45-50$ online... a Samsung 512gb 870 evo SSD costs about 60-70$ online too. and a cheapo Chinese 512gb SSD could cost as little as 30$ (though i wouldn't recommend anyone to even bother touching one of those)

Thank youu bro :D

Tell me please. How is your fan in T430 and hinges. The first one is buzzing like an airplane, the second ones are shattered... It seems that there are really weak points of this wonderful device)

Yep :D it's hard to find some in bad shape, mostly these machines last forever without problems :D

yo solo quiero saber que liquido le pone a las pantallas o plasticos para eliminar los rayones 🤨🤨

It's 1969 model 1:96 scale, 53 years old, still with original box and in parts, most of them are in bags just one is opened, other are never opened or touched. I need to build that :D

Thank youu for the support bro :)

i am using a T430 as a daily driver :)

@@k.p.5263 I am using a T60 with a 1600x1200 screen and (Gentoo) Linux as a daily driver. It sits next to my electronics workbench and is my PDF repository for circuit diagrams and electronic references, the old 4x3 screen dimensions make it perfect for viewing PDFs and for looking up other info on the Internet. It also happily plays music from my music server and YT video in up to 720p format.

@@k.p.5263 Tell me please. How is your fan in T430 and hinges. The first one is buzzing like an airplane, the second ones are shattered... It seems that there are really weak points of this wonderful device)

Thank youuu :D

I will try find some, now I have something other which is heavy damaged

It wouldn't work without BIOS modifications (ThinkPads have a whitelist for Wi-Fi cards, and from **30 series - for batteries)

Thank you bro :D About laptops, mostly the tech isn't mine, but something which is, I give it to someone who really needs

What did you update them to? Do you have a video link? Thanks in advance

I will return that, now I done some tests :D

Thank youu bro :D