Post by Hauskaz on Jul 20, 2015 18:22:43 GMT -5
I decided to go over all the ThinkPads still left in my house.
From left to right in order of acquisition:
ThinkPad T42
Intel Pentium M 735 (Dothan) @ 1.7 GHz (109.388 wPrime)
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 (240 3DMark03)
14.1" TN 1024x768
1.5 GB DDR SDRAM
160 GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue (38.7 MB/s HD Tune)
My OG ThinkPad. This bitch made it through grade 12 and college before the GPU finally dislodged itself from the motherboard, a pretty common fault for these ATI based ThinkPads of the time. Replacing the motherboard is not worth it, but I never brought myself to dispose of it.
ThinkPad X60 Tablet
Intel Core Duo L2500 (Yonah) @ 1.93 GHz (47.316 wPrime)
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (1324 3DMark03)
12.1" IPS 1400x1050 Wacom Digitizer
3 GB DDR2 SDRAM
128 GB OCZ Vertex 4 (215.6 MB/s HD Tune)
I picked this up early in college for taking notes by typing or freehand. The T42 became essentially a desktop until it crapped out while this bad boy saw its share of shit out and about, including falling down several rows of seats in a lecture hall. I still used this thing as my primary laptop until a month ago when I picked up the T450s.
ThinkPad R52
Intel Pentium M 740 (Dothan) @ 1.73 GHz
ATI Mobility Radeon X300
15.0" TN 1024x768
2 GB DDR2 SDRAM
160 GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue (38.7 MB/s HD Tune)
Work threw this thing out so I took it. It's unbearably slow thanks to the PATA hard drive and single core CPU. I may reformat it and put it in the garage to play music and look up car maintenance shit.
ThinkPad X61 Tablet
Intel Core 2 Duo L7500 (Merom) @ 1.6 GHz (58.296 wPrime)
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
12.1" IPS 1400x1050 Wacom Digitizer
Kuldeep gave this to me. I gutted it for parts for the X60 such as the keyboard, WLAN card, and some other shit I forgot about.
ThinkPad T450s
Intel Core i7 5600U (Broadwell-U) @ 2.6 GHz (15.662 wPrime)
Intel HD Graphics 5500 (15299 3DMark03)
14.0" IPS 1920x1080
12 GB DDR3L SDRAM
500 GB Crucial BX100 (441.1 MB/s HD Tune)
My new mobile workhorse, retiring the 9 year old X60 Tablet after 6 years of service. The ULV Broadwell CPU leaves something to be desired for performance from a chip carrying the i7 name, but the energy efficiency of it is absolutely ridiculous. I can easily hit 7 hours of solid usage with just the 3 cell battery. The screen is also absolutely gorgeous and the Intel HD Graphics actually perform a lot better than I expected it to. The keyboard layout is frustrating as fuck but I actually find the revised keys themselves to be better than the old ones. There's practically no flex and the keys feel much more crisp and defined than all the other ThinkPads I own, although that may just be because they're all worn to shit.
Stacked from bottom to top. The screen on the R52 is literally the thickness of the T450s as a whole! The T42 on the bottom was considered svelte for its day while the R52 represented more typical laptops of the time, but even now the T42 doesn't seem that thick or bulky.
The X60 Tablet, R52 and T450s are the only laptops here that still run. The X60 Tablet display is fantastic but dim due to the shitty cold cathode backlight technology of its time. The R52 screen is abysmal in every way, from the resolution to the colour, gamut, and viewing angle. The T450s absolutely destroys the other screens.
The R52 goes to complete shit at any angle that isn't straight on. The X60 Tablet and T450s have no issue with viewing angles on the other hand.
Lenovo dropped the ThinkLight for backlit keyboards. It's nice, but I miss the ThinkLight for the ability to light up my whole work environment.
Not pictured are two smashed but functional ThinkPad R61's I salvaged from work and had intended to use for media server purposes but ended up tossing. I'm probably going to gut and chuck the X61 and T42 too unless anyone wants them for some ridiculous reason. This post just serves to document and archive them all.
From left to right in order of acquisition:
ThinkPad T42
Intel Pentium M 735 (Dothan) @ 1.7 GHz (109.388 wPrime)
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 (240 3DMark03)
14.1" TN 1024x768
1.5 GB DDR SDRAM
160 GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue (38.7 MB/s HD Tune)
My OG ThinkPad. This bitch made it through grade 12 and college before the GPU finally dislodged itself from the motherboard, a pretty common fault for these ATI based ThinkPads of the time. Replacing the motherboard is not worth it, but I never brought myself to dispose of it.
ThinkPad X60 Tablet
Intel Core Duo L2500 (Yonah) @ 1.93 GHz (47.316 wPrime)
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 (1324 3DMark03)
12.1" IPS 1400x1050 Wacom Digitizer
3 GB DDR2 SDRAM
128 GB OCZ Vertex 4 (215.6 MB/s HD Tune)
I picked this up early in college for taking notes by typing or freehand. The T42 became essentially a desktop until it crapped out while this bad boy saw its share of shit out and about, including falling down several rows of seats in a lecture hall. I still used this thing as my primary laptop until a month ago when I picked up the T450s.
ThinkPad R52
Intel Pentium M 740 (Dothan) @ 1.73 GHz
ATI Mobility Radeon X300
15.0" TN 1024x768
2 GB DDR2 SDRAM
160 GB Western Digital Scorpio Blue (38.7 MB/s HD Tune)
Work threw this thing out so I took it. It's unbearably slow thanks to the PATA hard drive and single core CPU. I may reformat it and put it in the garage to play music and look up car maintenance shit.
ThinkPad X61 Tablet
Intel Core 2 Duo L7500 (Merom) @ 1.6 GHz (58.296 wPrime)
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100
12.1" IPS 1400x1050 Wacom Digitizer
Kuldeep gave this to me. I gutted it for parts for the X60 such as the keyboard, WLAN card, and some other shit I forgot about.
ThinkPad T450s
Intel Core i7 5600U (Broadwell-U) @ 2.6 GHz (15.662 wPrime)
Intel HD Graphics 5500 (15299 3DMark03)
14.0" IPS 1920x1080
12 GB DDR3L SDRAM
500 GB Crucial BX100 (441.1 MB/s HD Tune)
My new mobile workhorse, retiring the 9 year old X60 Tablet after 6 years of service. The ULV Broadwell CPU leaves something to be desired for performance from a chip carrying the i7 name, but the energy efficiency of it is absolutely ridiculous. I can easily hit 7 hours of solid usage with just the 3 cell battery. The screen is also absolutely gorgeous and the Intel HD Graphics actually perform a lot better than I expected it to. The keyboard layout is frustrating as fuck but I actually find the revised keys themselves to be better than the old ones. There's practically no flex and the keys feel much more crisp and defined than all the other ThinkPads I own, although that may just be because they're all worn to shit.
Stacked from bottom to top. The screen on the R52 is literally the thickness of the T450s as a whole! The T42 on the bottom was considered svelte for its day while the R52 represented more typical laptops of the time, but even now the T42 doesn't seem that thick or bulky.
The X60 Tablet, R52 and T450s are the only laptops here that still run. The X60 Tablet display is fantastic but dim due to the shitty cold cathode backlight technology of its time. The R52 screen is abysmal in every way, from the resolution to the colour, gamut, and viewing angle. The T450s absolutely destroys the other screens.
The R52 goes to complete shit at any angle that isn't straight on. The X60 Tablet and T450s have no issue with viewing angles on the other hand.
Lenovo dropped the ThinkLight for backlit keyboards. It's nice, but I miss the ThinkLight for the ability to light up my whole work environment.
Not pictured are two smashed but functional ThinkPad R61's I salvaged from work and had intended to use for media server purposes but ended up tossing. I'm probably going to gut and chuck the X61 and T42 too unless anyone wants them for some ridiculous reason. This post just serves to document and archive them all.
