I have n X220 that I love so much. Cost was 30€ plus upgrade of RAM/SSD/Battery. Unfortunately it has a TN panel. Found a pristine LP125WH2(SLT2) IPS display, but managed to crack it when I bent the top/bottom hinges so it would fit inside the lid (me: idiot), and cried like a baby. Then, the same seller had an (beaten, no battery, no charger, no ssd cover) X230 to sell for same price of 30€, that specked i7-CPU and bought it just to retrieve the IPS inside (I assumed it has IPS since most i7 CPUs have IPS by default). When it arrived, surprise!! a different x230 than the one in images, still i7, IPS display version SLB3 (still good), pristine condition, and a dead battery (but glad it fills the hole). Now I moved the RAM, SSD, mSATA from my X220 to this one, and I'm giving the X220 to my father, cuz I'll regret if I sell it 😄I also wanted to move the x220 keyboard into x230 but I'll also feel sorry dismantling it. Probably I'll buy one separately and do the mod in the future, even though I like very much the backlit keyb of X230 and the typing experience on it. Great little machine.

Which X1 Yoga version that have USB C charging 🔋⚡

i have some free t60s with t7200 cpus and they are pretty useable

i just got a $70 t480s, currently running ubuntu 24.04 with hyprland & kitty terminal. working great for me - only problem was the broken 802.11 wifi card which i replaced

I was really set on getting a used 5491 because of its beefier 6/12 CPU, but reddit folks say its heatsink is inadequate and doesn't let the 45W CPU shine. So probably 5490 would be better since it comes with the same heatsink, but CPU is less hot at 25W. Yes, 4/8 i7-8650U should not be compared to 8850H, but it should be sufficient for browsing, KZbin, mail checking and watching blu-ray movies.

nice

Great video!

bought myself a t480s after seeing its selection of ports and I couldn't be any happier as I am an IT technician. full sized rj45, thunderbolt docking options? the option for an external gpu? It is a surprisingly capable machine despite it being 2024. I got an i5 8350u model and one of the main reasons I bought the laptop is that it has really cheap replacement parts and with hundreds and thousands of these machines being made the parts are practically flooding the market to help keep the machine running like its brand new. PS: The keyboard being easily replaceable AND spill resistant? will save you hundreds of dollars in headaches later on, just get a silicone cover for it if you want it to last even longer

am about to get one to do some work with linux and web dev, I really hope it performs well.

We got one of these laptops donated in recycling recently, I don’t have the hard drive sled for it and the rubber seems to be rotting away but other than that everything works. Even the batteries somehow still works. I may fix it up. Somehow

Dell latitude 5490 i5 8th gen....have Nvme m.2 Ssd Slot or not... please reply

Dell latitude 5490 i5 8th gen....have Nvme m.2 Ssd Slot or not... please reply

lithium polymer batteries were a mistake. 18650 cells are universal and still used, making battery rebuilds easy. Rather have a thicc laptop than a brick in 10 years. But my X230 and T440p batteries are still holding over 80%, so I think 18650 chemistry is just more stable and safer than LiPo.

I saw a demo of this running android I think at a CES show in 2010 but wondered why I never saw it released. Later we got tablets anyway which lead to tablets that have detachable keyboards and then desktop like android UIs. So I feel like the DNA from these still lives on to this day.

Try install W10 arm on it

Hello Laptop Retrospective I recently got the Dell Latitude 5491 and i noticed that, it doesn't have the NVIDIA geforce mx130. Is that a normal occurrence for this particular model?

14:00 mmm... Spicy pillow! Part of me is sad that this didn't come out (love that design, even today), part of me thinks it was the right call, look at the landscape in 2010: You had the iPad, you had Netbooks fading out, the Smartphone wars heated up thanks to Samsung with the first Galaxy S, then you had Windows CE dying, and Android was trying to prove itself outside of smartphones. I remember that around this time you had another Snapdragon-based, Android-running "smartbook" in the form of the Compaq Airlife, it had a 1GHz Snapdragon and 512MB of RAM like the Skylight and that bombed hard. Still, it's another "what if?" scenario. Now we have competent ARM chips, and Microsoft *seems* to be caring more about Windows on ARM. But manufacturers are doing anything but catering to actual consumer needs. The 8GB M1 Apple MacBook Air to me still remains the apex of essential ARM-powered computing.

Advice from my experience: disable hyperthreading in BIOS setup. In Windows 10 it improves latency by A LOT.

Seems like the thick screen is the only difference from normal E6410. I'm quite familiar with this model, have a few and still use one daily in 2024.

Thats cool and shame though.Love that it was linux based but in saying that would be cool to see andriod on it to would of that been cupcake? funny how it seems everyone now is doing arm based laptops. Imagine if they had stayed with it? where would it be today? lenovo leader of arm based laptops??? this post brought to you by X1 yoga gen 3

its soo cool seeing early adoption ARM-based laptop

I just bought a T400 for a very very and again very cheap price, actually the owner didnt want it anymore, So my plan is to put a linux on it with a few upgrades and some retrogames and some emulator, btw USB joystick is on the way. Its just in case if the internet goes dead.. thank you for the video.

Really cool, looks like a winner that just missed... Inspired by a george forman grill maybe? Panini maker? Looks pretty interesting really.... The OS looks like it was ahead of its time too

theoretically you could remove the actual battery from the battery enclosure, send the connector to someone who knows hardware and have them analyze the standard to hopefully reverse engineer it.

I love this! reminds me of when i was searching for a dell adamo 13. i love insanely rare tech like this

So many ideas of the 2000s and 2010s that were ~15 years too early on the hardware side. We finally have hardware that can fulfill all of those optimistic visions without compromise, but the OEMs couldn't care less anymore.

While the concept is interesting, I'd imagine that the lackluster specs (even for the time) would make it hard to use this laptop even in 2010. Also just my guess, but it's possible that the CPU is an early version of the Snapdragon S3 SOC from the year after, 2011. So a dual-core Cortex A8, though the lackluster specs also makes the single-core S1 viable as a budget option for the Skylight's CPU.

That's cool that you were able to obtain this rare device. I wonder if this device has any connection to the first ThinkPad Tablet (Android).

A blast from the past. Cheers.

I would like to test out that operation system in a VM

Wow this is so cool! Great video :)

Such an awesome find! And yes… I’m very interested in that battery :)

Are the SSD drives 128gb upgradable?

watching this on my x201, works great yet cant wait to get an x230 with the x220 keyboard.

my laptop look exactly like yours it's different model mine T580 I love it! Soon I will upgrade the RAM from 16GB to 64GB

Bro there is a deal on this laptop but it says the FN key is not working i need to ask you what does the fn power like what buttong i know its used to make the keyboard lightup anything else?

Love how you used Endwalker as benchmark, since these type of old games are what suits the 1050 most. I mean really, any demanding games that's relatively modern (say, AAA from the last 5 years) will either choke the loving crap out of that poor 1050, or straight up won't run at all (thanks, Unreal Engine 5). For these type of games a 2060 will be better, but even then you'll still have to make do with lower settings, just my two cents.

Where's the sata connector ?

Bro help me in that row there is no light showing to me but if I touch functions are working

How is the XT3 in comparison? Also for that one, is the CPU socketed?

will you review ThinkPad L16 G1 ?

Just bought one yesterday with i7 and looking forward to it. Planning upgrades in msata storage and the bay battery.

So is this a good pickup for 35$ in 2024?

Hi, a bit of a long shot. Do you still have the JSON file? The Google Drive link is dead, and the official website has nothing.

Which tool did you use to check your battery status?

Incredible. These stories are just tying my entire computer history together, and now even more of it makes sense. ( Sent from a David Hill Designed Keyboard)

I love this series! And the legendary David Hill is back here again! Thank you sir for all the work you put into these videos.

Thanks for this walk down the ThinkPad memory lane

Bought a p53 with i9 9880h and rtx 4000 for 1.1k about a year ago. Upgraded to 96 gb of ram. Thing absolutely eats through ansys simulations i love it.