ThinkPad X61: The Great Semi-Ultraportable Laptop

The x61 is a great laptop. I installed arch btw. Also people say that the palm rest gets hot from the WiFi card and they don’t like it. Nah I see that as a feature just like the right exiting vents on modern thinkpads my hands are cold all the time and the fact that my ThinkPad not only works great as a laptop but also as a hand warmer really makes it the best laptop for me

[@ENNEN420]

The memes aside, I'd kill for one of these. I need a really good laptop to handle old workloads and versions of linux and windows with said workloads. Can't get a desktop either since I have no room and can't sit for longer than 15min without being in screaming pain and its light enough and runs cool enough that my already destroyed back and hips won't be turned into dust and then turned to ash by the fans spewing molten lava.

[@background0001]

you would kill? :3

[@HIDLad001]

It’s a great laptop. The sad thing is that people are charging way too much for it.

[@dcfbf]

Yeah I was lucky to be given two for free

[@finhas8865]

Except HDMI port and probably unupgradable cpu.

[@dcfbf]

yeah they didn’t include hdmi in thinkpads until like the xx40 series or something. Though my e40 from before that has one and yeah no upgradeable cpu sadly the x series never had it

[@That.One_Luke]

that laptop might be small, full of ports and convenient in that ambit but it's not powerful and can't hold up with a basic task

[@dcfbf]

@@That.One_Luke though I would have to agree that it isn’t very powerful(It can barely even do youtube at 480p), you’d be suprised at how capable it still is. I can still do general web broswing and play some lightweight games.

[@TanishqSharma-g5r]

I think the main reason the thinkpads are still famous is because they are easily moddable so people put new motherboards and displays in them so

[@dcfbf]

@@TanishqSharma-g5r Yeah you're right about that. The x61 specifically can have the x61t display put into it which is like a weird resolution like 1400 by 1050 or something and theres like a x62 mod that surfaced a couple of years ago which upgrades it to a 5th gen intel cpu. Though I read somewhere that it got discontinued.

[@geishu]

uhhhhhhhhh

[@EthanCobalt-oz2ob]

What are people gonna do with ur name? Like my names nathan what are ya gonna do come to my house? No trouble but wondering.

[@dcfbf]

Idk I just don't like having my personal information out there

[@geishu]

This video is way tto sigma. cattop dfgifdslnhdifofam d. Btw u sound really cool!!!@#!@!!#@!# uh i kinda found this video cause i got the x61 too!! yipee yay

[@geishu]

please add me on somethigng. IM DESPERATE>D!>!>%tehhgj

[@dcfbf]

thanks yeah I think that the x61 might be one of my favorite Thinkpads

[@geishu]

@@dcfbf is there any good way to recell the batteries? cause mine are dead asf, or atleaast the battery controller thinks that

[@dcfbf]

I'm pretty sure they just use standard 18650 batteries so just sorta pop it open and replace the batteries. I've actually never done it before so I wouldn't know sorry.

[@dcfbf]

Though if you are ok with it there are some pretty cheap batteries that you can buy on ebay. I got mine for less than 30 bucks