The $5 ThinkPad. 

Am I the only one that couldn’t stand LTT right from day #1? Nothing has changed.

Puppy Linux can bring to life 12 year olds laps, that thing is awesome.

@@stepsistertrap5992 it's bring Acer Travel iMate 202T to live :)

Or windows 7…

@@sebastiaodeabreu7297 Nah windows 7 is literally malware central trust me

@@Alexander-vo4gv yeah and with support slowly dying off for software is not really the best option

Ahh nevermind. I just checked (l412 heatsink) and they aren't compatible at all. Don't know why I thought they were!

@@neongoblin2171 Knowing how many parts are compatible across different models, I don't fault you for making the occasional mistake.

Damn that's a killer deal! Hope it serves you for many years :)

Yup

In the shithole country i live in, i paid $70 for a lenovo g470 2nd gen i3 with 4gb of ram no hdd with a broken hinge. And enterprise laptops even old ones are horribly expensive. A t60 can cost $220! That in bad shape, missing batterie no ram, no hdd no charger. The cheapest t60's and t400's i found costed $90 I literally found a guy trying to sell a godamn latitude d510 for $320! And pentium M machine...

It was incredibly hard to contain my excitement, especially once I got out to the car and found out it was fully functional.

@@SebisRandomTech Yeah it's a good find. I've met a couple junkers in my day who also don't care much about computers. They find them to be a headache to find power cords for, to test, etc. I got a nice little i5 HP laptop from a lady like that for $10 a few weeks back and ended up selling it for $95. I would have kept it if it were a Thinkpad. Oh and on a side note, about 3 years ago I visited Pittsburg for the first time and went to that exact flea market. It's a very fun spot! Great video like usual.

@@adultlunchables Yep! I don't think I've had as many good finds from Trader Jacks as I used to, but things like this make it completely worth it. Happy that you stopped by the city!

Caralho mano, onde foi que tu achou essa oferta? Muito no preço

While I'll love to have one of those with me, unfortunately I have yet to get my hands on one since they are not that easy to found in Taiwan

My heart skipped a beat when I saw it perched on the railings of that balcony.

Did you watch the whole video? I’m going to be upgrading it in the future. RAM and storage at the very least, but hoping to eventually do the CPU and display as well, and maybe even toy with an external graphics card! Nice profile picture by the way! I also have a plethora of spare power supplies for these machines since I work on many of them.

@@SebisRandomTech Ah, pardon me, must have missed that line 😳 Still this is a great find you did there albeit I am in the same boat to prefer the small X and 14" T models.

I still like my X1 Nano a lot more than most other laptops out there, and the P series still provides something reminiscent of the older ThinkPads, but I definitely agree that they aren't the same now.

That is correct, the 15" models can handle the quad cores of this generation while 14" models will run very hot if a quad core is installed. With the subsequent generation (Ivy Bridge), a handful of processors such as the 3612QM and 3632QM are within the thermal limits of the T430's cooling and can be installed with the stock cooling. My own T430 has had a quad core installed for several years now with no issues to speak of.

@@SebisRandomTech yeah that's one of the cooler things about the T430 (literally). The thing is a beast. And the T440p could handle some pretty powerful quad cores too.

@@carnelianknight5713 That it can! If only the T440p still had a similar design to the T430, that would be a killer modernish classic ThinkPad!

@@SebisRandomTech indeed. Though with a touchpad swap the T440p is still very good. I actually like the trackpoint on newer models a little more because the buttons are wider and a bit more natural feeling. Seamless FHD IPS displays are nice too. Just wish they didn't have that weird gray color and a lack of physical media keys.

@@carnelianknight5713 Agreed, I'm glad Lenovo has gone back to the classic ThinkPad black in recent years.

Easy to get replacement batteries for it if you choose. That should help extend its useful lifespan.

Ah it would've been fine. I was more worried about derailing a train with that thing :P

@@SebisRandomTech I was more thinking the drop would of caused an earthquake once the T520 touched down

I don't know man, my glass synaptics touchpad is pretty good.

Voixiom i know i’m not sebi, but do you have any more info on the x230t?

Sorry for getting back to you so late. Feel free to send me an email regarding ThinkPads that you have. If you have something interesting or of value I may be interested.

@@wildbill23c No need to be rude, but at this point you aren't adding anything to the discussion. We get it, you don't like modern thinkpads, but you don't need to make dozens of comments that are essentially the same thing.

@@wildbill23c So why are you still here commenting?

William Sevier and John Decker, please keep the comments here civil, or I will be blocking you both from commenting on my channel. This is your only warning.

@@gl3nda96 $20 my bet

@@hitmanekoyslnp8572 25€

that laptop is better than my laptop

Thanks Ozzy! You still have a better desktop than me! :)

@@SebisRandomTech well thanks LOL. :)

*OURPad*

@@SwagKiryu OurPad

They don’t need a reason. They just are. 😁

WHAT

Cool, I have a X230T running Manjaro i3 and it's beautiful... It runs smoothly and the pen is a bless 😁 You read it from an avocado 🥑

@@ch1nux1430 en este contexto, qué es un aguacate? Por cierto ¿venezolano? Casi todos los demás países lo llaman palta

@@elfedorausado Lo se, y no tengo problema con ello, cada cual le llama a las cosas como quiere, al final yo se como me llamo 😁 Un aguacate es una fruta noble, sin desperdicio, que nunca miente y que cambia rápido de estado... Si, soy venezolano. Saludos!

@@ch1nux1430 no era crítica. Venezolano igual

@@elfedorausado tampoco quise ser grosero XD 😋 Todo bien... 🥑

I paid $200 for 5 pcs and I got the following. That's $200 total...NOT PER. x99 i7 5960x ( 8 core 16 thread) with 64gb ddr4 ram and liquid cooling x79 i7 3930k (6 core 12 thread) with 32gb ddr3 ram and a gtx titan x x58 dell with i7-920 and 24gb ram and gtx 580 dell with i7-6700 and 16gb ddr4 ram and some 5th pc I haven't looked over yet cause it's dusty and got at least 1 dead spider in it so I'm gonna blow it out first but it's probably some intel xeon

@@bluescluessuperagent My friend, I must know the name of your PC dealer...

@@riverlefae2047 got lucky, found a dude legit 5 min away from me who is moving and he was offloading his "old" pcs for dirt cheap. His ad listing was very basic, not detailed at all which is why many people probably looked past it. But if you had an eye for detail you could see these pcs must be packing amazing stuff. And this is the start to our buy/sell relationship lol As he's emptying out his house, he offers me his old stuff first. So far no deal as good as those pcs but then those pcs probably took up alot of space (he said he thought about just throwing them away, hence the basically fire sale pricing) since then I've bought a couple hundred dollars worth of new gaming mice and keyboards for $100. Must be at least $400 in stuff. For myself a Occulus in immaculate condition for $100. And a brand new Titan XP (not the original, or the X, but the XP) for $400. And used they sell for $800 on ebay cha ching. So easy flip there. Evidently he used to own his own video game company and I guess he was hired by other devs to help their projects. I hope he keeps the goods coming.

Free is always a great deal.

That line has been unused for 20 years, so I should be alright. As said in the video, I will be upgrading this eventually.

I'm pretty sure these models all came with the ThinkLight. It's possible that yours is broken or the LED failed, or the cable going to the laptop is bad. That's what happened with the T430s featured in this video.

charlieboy31 I still have my A1181 2008 MacBook, I got it from my neighbor in 2012 after they upgraded to a MacBook Pro. Either I got lucky with the plastic lottery or just took decent care of mine because there aren’t any areas the plastic is visibly cracked. It was my daily driver until I got into ThinkPads and got a T430 to replace it.

@@SebisRandomTech I tried my best to take care of mine, quite a few others had cracks too, especially around the palm area. Mine is a 1,1 and while it still works, its pretty rough especially around the palm wrests. I also noticed that it seem to get extremely loud and warm during regular use (sitting on the desktop even) so perhaps its due a re-paste. Other than the plastic cracks, solid machine though and I would be happy to give the new MacBook pros a go if they did not have that god awful keyboard.

I realized the smartcard error, figured it was still good to mention these had it.

$40

Sd card? If it has a dock connector that could possibly be a solution but probably not what you're looking for.

@@pompshuffle562 SD card as a boot drive? Sounds like a bad idea. Anyway I found some of those weird SSDs on AliExpress, so might order one if I decide that it's worth salvaging.

Nope, I've been away for school. Nothing too much recently.

Sebi's Random Tech ok thanks

Its hard to find good deal on ebay. most seller are greedy and sell junk for too much. it rare to find cheap stuff on ebay. their like beggar or thieves pretending to do business and shady. You can find great deal on clearance item at walmart. best buy, office depot. ebay sucks.

Samantha Tang Orange Juice hehe samantha you must be a hottie! hehe! but yeah, those stores do have good deals. thanks hugs 😉

Nah it wasn't that bad, 8:07 and 8:18 is MUCH, MUCH worse.

IBM Model M

Depends on the specifications. A higher end X220 is worth it (i7, IPS display, etc), but if it's a lower end or barebones unit that's a little high.

Don’t worry, it’s abandoned.

The only thing that would make me nervous is the chance of the ThinkPad derailing a train.

@@SebisRandomTech Yeah, otherwise it'll be a threat to those trains passing by.

Exactly. I hate it when American RU-vidrs acts like these computers are cheap everywhere. In Europe, the standard price for these old style laptops are at least 150 EUR, with average prices of 200 EUR+.

Think I also paid 5 bucks for my T520 at the flea market lmao.