I once got drunk in a 48hours coding event, i blocked one of the two evacuation hole for liquid under my T420 and proceeded to drink a beer by pouring it on the keyboard and drinking from the evacuation hole, while shouting "Can you do this with your f$cking MacBook ?" It was 7 years ago. Since that i brought it with me on many bike roadtrip across europ, and this bad boy is still running, and i still have 4 hours of autonomy without ever replacing the battery, those PC were wild
If you want to go all the way, then you can replace the BIOS with Coreboot. This allows you to put a newer 3rd gen Core i CPU into the T420. I use mine with an i7-3540m. Compared to the i7-2640m I had in the laptop earlier, the newer CPU has lower thermals, but the most important thing is the HD4000 IGP which is much faster than the HD3000 or the nVidia GPU in the original T420. Oh yes, coreboot also removes the wifi whitelist, so you can also put an intel ax200 wifi 6 card into the machine. One final thing, if you flash coreboot with seabios on the Thinkpad, it allows you to dual boot Windows and Linux.
@@RobertJohnson-lb3qz It is an awsome upgrade, however it is not as simple as installing a new OS. You need at least a Raspberry Pi and some soldering equipment. I wish you good luck with it. It worth it.
A legendary laptop for office work. These were standard issue at IBM where I worked and it's good for web and office work. It's not a gaming machine though.
@@rolandozarate5570 Never had issues with overheating and performance is more than sufficient for typical office apps, internet browsing and watching videos.Wouldn't try video editing or something like that on this machine, though.
@@marcusathome Awesome, thanks for the info. I’m a rookie but I want to install the coreboot in my 420 and if I can manage that do the same on my 440. I’ll have to look up the cpu info. Been studying Linux too. 👍
I use my T410 that I got from my dad, and I have no complaint.. This laptop hinge is just amazing, the keyboard feels amazing, and I LOVE the old style looks this laptop offers. Shame how modern LENOVOs have decreased this much.. :(
I got a T430 for free because it had no screen, no ram and no hard disk. I spent around 25 dollars for a new screen, I put an ssd that I already had and installed windows 10 in it, and well, I had many ram modules around so that was fixed as well. The only thing missing is the keyboard. After I was able to finaly make the laptop function, I noticed that keyboard flaw, but with an external keyboard everything seems fine. It runs so smoothly! And I can't believe I got it for free (someone gave it away because it was "not convenient" to fix it). All I spent was those 25 dollars. I'll never regret it.
More to t420 I love the T400 it works so fine for me. It is so quiet, and have massive copper in heatsink that is almost passive cool instend of other laptops noise fan. I love that suck the cool air from beside and not from buttom, that make more relaxing not to thinking if i block the air flow with my legs or if i put it in not steady surface. I hope new thinkpads make it better. Thank you for your video.
Crazy how small this channel is, but how excellent the quality is as well. Last channel I found like this was Action Retro, and I really hope you take off like that too. I recently got into Thinkpads with a P50 as my first -- another P50 and a P51s are on the way thanks to some lucky eBay wins, and I'm *definitely* interesting in modding and the "Frankenpad" concepts. I'd love to see some exploration about what parts are compatible across generations, if that's something you've ever got time to investigate.
I use mine as a sleeper server. It runs homeassistant VM, letsencrypt docker for the DNS, and I put 2 big SSDs in there for file server, the NIC on it is only 1Gbps but it's solid. Not only is it running perfectly, I put it on a nice stand from amazon and it looks great. I also added some extra USB ports to it with the expansion port for a zigbee dongle and for when I want to expand the homeassistant connections. There's lots of CPU and RAM to run more. It's an insanely useful laptop. I also put in the extended battery for an inbuilt UPS with a useful duration. Cost me 50eu minus the upgrades which weren't expensive. Sits in the corner of my room looking pretty on its stand. I've not even upgrade the CPU, maxed out the USB ports or used the esata yet, it's more like a PC with a battery than a laptop. Also, T420 blaze it.
I bought a T420 and want to upgrade it no matter what the costs . It's in mint condition. I love this machine so thanks for the info. I'm not familiar with Linux though. Might be an option in future.
I have a T420 and still using it just for storing data because It has 2 SSD's maybe I will add another storage on the M2 slot they say its possible to add. beside the T420, I have a T400 and a T470.
I like these older machines .. currently im using a t440 with the i7 4710mq and 16gigs of ram .. works great for programming plc's and radios .. works great for all the everyday stuff like youtube and email .. so its my favorite for work laptop
if you program with AUTOHOT KEY you can make the track pad of t440 do heaps of stuff. Because it has single finger press down, double finger press down, triple finger press down. also it has single, double triple finger tap. You have so many options to program in fuctions from the trackpad.
Ah... my favorite laptop of all time. Coreboot is a little too advanced for me so I just have the I7-2670QM quadcore CPU installed with 16gb RAM running Windows 11 and using the 90 watt power brick. Life is good.
Funny you asked that question today. First I have to correct myself and say I was running an I7-2760QM. Secondly, I used a modified, all copper dGPU heatsink with copper foil. This T420 (no NVidia card) runs beautifully with incredibly low temps in my opinion (37 - 42 idle, 55 - 60 while streaming video). I was so pleasantly surprised that I ordered another for my second T420 and just installed it today. However the temps run significantly warmer in this one. It has the NVidia card and obviously the corresponding heatsink however this heatsink is the slightly different version that does not have the copper top to the fan and has separate pipes instead of the single, wide pipe (aside from the dGPU pipe) and I wasn't able to use as much copper foil because of where the NVidia chip resides. It runs about 10 degrees warmer all together. The only other difference is the version of Windows. I will play around with it but I might opt to switch back to the I7-2620M if it runs too hot for my liking. Funny enough when I use the Nvidia graphics card, the temps are actually a little bit more reasonable.
@@blackratsnakes i asked because i will be getting a free t420 on next Sunday and I am planning to upgrade it to a quad-core cpu. However, I will get corebot on it and put a ivy bridge quad-core cpu; one with 35W. That's the plan 😊
That's perfect, you will have no issues. I am switching back to the dual core on this T420. I even disabled turbo clocking and it's still running too hot. I will just be happy I have one that handles it like a champ. That one is the one I stream video on all the time anyway so i'm happy it works there. Have fun with coreboot and your new Ivy Bridge!
@@blackratsnakes thanx. I don't know which one I will be getting on Sunday, though. I'm hopping it will be one without the Nvidia video card. As I understood, those are the ones which do not have temperature issues.
I've used it for work and it's an awesome computer back in the day and it's still good even today. It's not a gaming machine but for basic browsing and office work it's fine.
Lenovo t420 was a bargin before but not now. They are expensive for what you get. They are very expensive to upgrade now also. The only reason to use it now is for it's keyboard.
this is the video that convinced me to buy one. im a tinkerer at heart and i think the laptop looks cool. the options of the pciexpress card slot, the ability to upgrade the screen, ram, storage, cpu and even wifi card should make for a fun project that makes it feel more of a personal machine. i have a steamdeck for gaming but i wanted something for university work, writing, web surfing and youtube which given i use linux shouldnt be an issue. what a lovely machine with so many io ports, sturdy and dependable. they dont make em like they used to.
great video. i agree with you about the t480 though, the t420 is starting to show its age and the t480 is better value, especially since the t480 is starting to get cheaper.
T420 was the finest 14” thinkpad ive owned, i did the 2560x1440 upgrade but kept the i5 dual core. It gamed poorly including web graphics and even with my gtx 960 egpu at the time, but as a high-dpi desktop workspace fitting multiple browser windows, pdfs, documents, and explorer windows I was more productive with my T420 than any of my prior machines. The 7-row and palmrest on T420 were perfect for me, to date T420 was my greatest typing platform. I enjoyed watching my blu rays on it with the optical drive.
I still have a T430 (powered by Linux Mint "From freedom came elegance") that I use sometimes, especially when I am travelling and I don't want to take my more recent and much more expensive laptop with me.
That's crazy how powerful he is! I use Acer Aspire 5250 as my main laptop, and he is also from 2011 (the same to T420). I use a clean Arch Linux with i3wm, and still can run UA-cam maximum in 360p with different freezes etc. But... T420 can run 1080p. I think that it's so cool to buy a laptop and continue to use him even 12 years later+ and still not care about buying a new one.
I got a T410 (dead), T420, T430, T520 However, all of them have bad asl battery lifes, where can I get trustable battery replacements for the T430/T420 at least? (I'm from Europe) Also, I'd love to upgrade the T420 by putting my T430's 3rd gen CPU in the T420, is that possible? (The T430's screen broke, so I have to use an external monitor which sucks, and the T420 has a fingerprint reader, but has slower CPU (2250m vs 3320m) and GPU (HD2000 vs HD4000)) So if I'd be able to put the T430's CPU in the T420, and get a new battery, that'd be the best
I see something selling one for 100$ nearby i5 2gen 320gb HDD, it doesn't have a battery. Should I buy it ? I need one computer for coding, accounting, browsing and other day to day stuff
They're also very good for studying. They're not nearly as noisy as HP, ASUS and Acer laptops so you people don't look at you in class. Just bought a refurbished T460 for education and i know it will rock.
Late to the party, my wife and I have T520 Thinkpads in addition to our desktops. I'm also using a T420 as a poor man's server on our home LAN with a large HDD stuck into the DVD bay. The only changes I've made to the Thinkpads is to replace the HDD with SSDs. Lusting after a T480 as an upgrade but as we are not gamers the T520 thinkpads are fine and we have no desire to move to Win 11.
I use my T420 still to this day! Back in 2017, it was my main music-making device AND it was my first gaming computer when I bought a GPU and a PCI-E to ExpressCard adapter and ran an RX 7970. I was able to play Rise of the Tomb Raider on it as well Doom 2016 (heavily compromised but still)! Nowadays, since I have a dedicated desktop for the majority of my computing tasks and gaming, it's used as a media server and I have a 1TB hard drive inside it specifically for use with my modded PlayStation 2. I have the ethernet ports connected on both devices and the T420 serves the ISOs to Open PS2 Loader over SMB, so I can play over 200 PS2 games whenever I want, straight from the laptop! I use it surprisingly often, I'm currently playing through Tony Hawk's Underground 2 and Tomb Raider Legend.
the only valid reason to use an old think pad is the lack of ime and such subsystems. so you stick to an old one when you wanna have complete control over your hardware and software. other than that it's just nostalgia and personal joice. I have both old and new. my new one can do everything this one can except for cpu upgradability. but with 16c32t I wonder when I'll ever need that. I have pcie passtrough and all the good stuff.. which is plenty.. but don't get me wrong, you will have to ript my t500 and x200 out of my cold dead hands
Framework iv in DOSbox works well in the T420. Roll on (back) the reversion to DOS for love of vintage and to escape doomscrolling and perennial bombardment with advertising... ;-). ❤😊
Mine is my XP/7 retro gaming on the go machine Dual core dual thread i5 Upgraded to 16gb of ram 1tb wd blue 128mb cache hard drives xp,7, shared storage partition Amzon dvd burner drive thats much quieter and less vibration then sony OEM drive Express card usb 3.0 card Aftermarket extended live battery like the one in video
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I used my T420 for CNC machining and 3d modeling with 3d printers. I needed to get a new laptop recently. Now I'm thinking about NOT buying the 2024 thinkpad after watching your video. Great job on the video!
I once got drunk in a 48hours coding event, i blocked one of the two evacuation hole for liquid under my T420 and proceeded to drink a beer by pouring it on the keyboard and drinking from the evacuation hole, while shouting "Can you do this with your f$cking MacBook ?" It was 7 years ago. Since that i brought it with me on many bike roadtrip across europ, and this bad boy is still running, and i still have 4 hours of autonomy without ever replacing the battery, those PC were wild
unrelated but what is the main difference between the T420's that have the fingerprint reader on the right and why some doesnt
@@ContraIsBased it's just different variants, like how you can get it with different cpus or keyboard layouts
@@falox5136 so they are all the same models,excluding the "S" model,right?
@@ContraIsBased pretty much
@@falox5136 thanks for the info dude
Great I/O, great keyboard, built like a tank. T420 is GOATED.
is it goated with the sauce tho?
@@TheSonicSegaNerd If you're nerdy enough, goated with open sauce even!
If you want to go all the way, then you can replace the BIOS with Coreboot.
This allows you to put a newer 3rd gen Core i CPU into the T420. I use mine with an i7-3540m. Compared to the i7-2640m I had in the laptop earlier, the newer CPU has lower thermals, but the most important thing is the HD4000 IGP which is much faster than the HD3000 or the nVidia GPU in the original T420.
Oh yes, coreboot also removes the wifi whitelist, so you can also put an intel ax200 wifi 6 card into the machine.
One final thing, if you flash coreboot with seabios on the Thinkpad, it allows you to dual boot Windows and Linux.
I’m thinking about upgrading my T420 & T440, how did you get Coreboot on your system? It sounds like a really nice upgrade!
@@RobertJohnson-lb3qz
It is an awsome upgrade, however it is not as simple as installing a new OS.
You need at least a Raspberry Pi and some soldering equipment.
I wish you good luck with it. It worth it.
@@RobertJohnson-lb3qzyou do not need a soldering equipment necessarily. There are some great guides on internet how to do it easily.
@@bobihun 👍
@@rivciks5045 👍
I watched this with my T420 in 2024 :P
I want to buy a stock t420 about 40$ is it worth it? It lost battery and not response keyboard so I guess after fix is around 50$. I buy to use Linux.
A legendary laptop for office work. These were standard issue at IBM where I worked and it's good for web and office work. It's not a gaming machine though.
Same :)
Running Linux - rebuilt it's 2 extended batteries and now it has a 10 hour battery life too. I would upgrade, but I love the keyboard too much
Stock t420(no upgrades) with linux for casual coding/no gaming is good? I have a good enough desktop at home@@TheSonicSegaNerd
me 2
Upgraded my T420 with the 8-core i7-2670QM, 16GB RAM and M.2-SSD, OS is Kubuntu 22.04. Nice machine, still used as my daily driver.
Does it overheat?
@@rolandozarate5570 Never had issues with overheating and performance is more than sufficient for typical office apps, internet browsing and watching videos.Wouldn't try video editing or something like that on this machine, though.
Whoa, 8-core?!?! Wow!
@@RobertJohnson-lb3qz It's a beast! 😅It's as far as you can go upgrading this machine.
@@marcusathome Awesome, thanks for the info. I’m a rookie but I want to install the coreboot in my 420 and if I can manage that do the same on my 440. I’ll have to look up the cpu info. Been studying Linux too. 👍
I use my T410 that I got from my dad, and I have no complaint.. This laptop hinge is just amazing, the keyboard feels amazing, and I LOVE the old style looks this laptop offers. Shame how modern LENOVOs have decreased this much.. :(
I got a T430 for free because it had no screen, no ram and no hard disk. I spent around 25 dollars for a new screen, I put an ssd that I already had and installed windows 10 in it, and well, I had many ram modules around so that was fixed as well. The only thing missing is the keyboard. After I was able to finaly make the laptop function, I noticed that keyboard flaw, but with an external keyboard everything seems fine. It runs so smoothly! And I can't believe I got it for free (someone gave it away because it was "not convenient" to fix it). All I spent was those 25 dollars. I'll never regret it.
"Science isn't about why, it's about why not" - Cave Johnson
More to t420 I love the T400 it works so fine for me. It is so quiet, and have massive copper in heatsink that is almost passive cool instend of other laptops noise fan. I love that suck the cool air from beside and not from buttom, that make more relaxing not to thinking if i block the air flow with my legs or if i put it in not steady surface. I hope new thinkpads make it better. Thank you for your video.
Crazy how small this channel is, but how excellent the quality is as well. Last channel I found like this was Action Retro, and I really hope you take off like that too.
I recently got into Thinkpads with a P50 as my first -- another P50 and a P51s are on the way thanks to some lucky eBay wins, and I'm *definitely* interesting in modding and the "Frankenpad" concepts. I'd love to see some exploration about what parts are compatible across generations, if that's something you've ever got time to investigate.
I use mine as a sleeper server. It runs homeassistant VM, letsencrypt docker for the DNS, and I put 2 big SSDs in there for file server, the NIC on it is only 1Gbps but it's solid. Not only is it running perfectly, I put it on a nice stand from amazon and it looks great. I also added some extra USB ports to it with the expansion port for a zigbee dongle and for when I want to expand the homeassistant connections. There's lots of CPU and RAM to run more. It's an insanely useful laptop. I also put in the extended battery for an inbuilt UPS with a useful duration. Cost me 50eu minus the upgrades which weren't expensive. Sits in the corner of my room looking pretty on its stand. I've not even upgrade the CPU, maxed out the USB ports or used the esata yet, it's more like a PC with a battery than a laptop. Also, T420 blaze it.
I bought a T420 and want to upgrade it no matter what the costs . It's in mint condition. I love this machine so thanks for the info. I'm not familiar with Linux though. Might be an option in future.
Terry Tibbs knocked it out the park with this one! Nice vid 👍🏼
You kept the DVD drive. Im surprised you did not replace it with more storage or one of the rare batteries.
You sound a bit like Prof. Snape, and that's super cool.
I have a T420 and still using it just for storing data because It has 2 SSD's maybe I will add another storage on the M2 slot they say its possible to add. beside the T420, I have a T400 and a T470.
I have a T420 too 😅What SSD model could you suggest to upgrade?
i have 2 of this, picked up from the e-waste dumpster at work. 1 for the treadmill running Linux Mint and the other 1 for testing other distros
I like these older machines .. currently im using a t440 with the i7 4710mq and 16gigs of ram .. works great for programming plc's and radios .. works great for all the everyday stuff like youtube and email .. so its my favorite for work laptop
if you program with AUTOHOT KEY you can make the track pad of t440 do heaps of stuff. Because it has single finger press down, double finger press down, triple finger press down. also it has single, double triple finger tap. You have so many options to program in fuctions from the trackpad.
Ah... my favorite laptop of all time. Coreboot is a little too advanced for me so I just have the I7-2670QM quadcore CPU installed with 16gb RAM running Windows 11 and using the 90 watt power brick. Life is good.
How is your laptop with that quad-core cpu running? Is the temperature not an issue? Are you using a standard heatsink?
Funny you asked that question today. First I have to correct myself and say I was running an I7-2760QM. Secondly, I used a modified, all copper dGPU heatsink with copper foil. This T420 (no NVidia card) runs beautifully with incredibly low temps in my opinion (37 - 42 idle, 55 - 60 while streaming video). I was so pleasantly surprised that I ordered another for my second T420 and just installed it today. However the temps run significantly warmer in this one. It has the NVidia card and obviously the corresponding heatsink however this heatsink is the slightly different version that does not have the copper top to the fan and has separate pipes instead of the single, wide pipe (aside from the dGPU pipe) and I wasn't able to use as much copper foil because of where the NVidia chip resides. It runs about 10 degrees warmer all together. The only other difference is the version of Windows. I will play around with it but I might opt to switch back to the I7-2620M if it runs too hot for my liking. Funny enough when I use the Nvidia graphics card, the temps are actually a little bit more reasonable.
@@blackratsnakes i asked because i will be getting a free t420 on next Sunday and I am planning to upgrade it to a quad-core cpu. However, I will get corebot on it and put a ivy bridge quad-core cpu; one with 35W. That's the plan 😊
That's perfect, you will have no issues. I am switching back to the dual core on this T420. I even disabled turbo clocking and it's still running too hot. I will just be happy I have one that handles it like a champ. That one is the one I stream video on all the time anyway so i'm happy it works there. Have fun with coreboot and your new Ivy Bridge!
@@blackratsnakes thanx. I don't know which one I will be getting on Sunday, though. I'm hopping it will be one without the Nvidia video card. As I understood, those are the ones which do not have temperature issues.
Really good fun, keep it up. Good luck.
What Linux distribution would you recommend? I read online that people were recommending mint xfce
I've used it for work and it's an awesome computer back in the day and it's still good even today. It's not a gaming machine but for basic browsing and office work it's fine.
Why your t420 has nvidia gbu while mine has an intel graphic hd one
So are you aware about the M.2 NVMe 2242 to Expresscard adapter called ThinkMods?
@@CyberDiary2 damn that sucks... now i know to have lower expectations
Lenovo t420 was a bargin before but not now. They are expensive for what you get. They are very expensive to upgrade now also. The only reason to use it now is for it's keyboard.
how well does it run 1080p videos?
just fine
this is the video that convinced me to buy one. im a tinkerer at heart and i think the laptop looks cool. the options of the pciexpress card slot, the ability to upgrade the screen, ram, storage, cpu and even wifi card should make for a fun project that makes it feel more of a personal machine. i have a steamdeck for gaming but i wanted something for university work, writing, web surfing and youtube which given i use linux shouldnt be an issue. what a lovely machine with so many io ports, sturdy and dependable. they dont make em like they used to.
great video. i agree with you about the t480 though, the t420 is starting to show its age and the t480 is better value, especially since the t480 is starting to get cheaper.
T420 was the finest 14” thinkpad ive owned, i did the 2560x1440 upgrade but kept the i5 dual core. It gamed poorly including web graphics and even with my gtx 960 egpu at the time, but as a high-dpi desktop workspace fitting multiple browser windows, pdfs, documents, and explorer windows I was more productive with my T420 than any of my prior machines. The 7-row and palmrest on T420 were perfect for me, to date T420 was my greatest typing platform. I enjoyed watching my blu rays on it with the optical drive.
why do some T420's have a fingerprint reader on the right and some dont?
I still have a T430 (powered by Linux Mint "From freedom came elegance") that I use sometimes, especially when I am travelling and I don't want to take my more recent and much more expensive laptop with me.
I love my thinkpad. It is a fantastic laptop. I use it daily. And it also can boot into retro oppressing systems so I can play all the old games too.
"Because I like it" hahaha, yes sir ! thanks for the video !
That's crazy how powerful he is! I use Acer Aspire 5250 as my main laptop, and he is also from 2011 (the same to T420). I use a clean Arch Linux with i3wm, and still can run UA-cam maximum in 360p with different freezes etc. But... T420 can run 1080p. I think that it's so cool to buy a laptop and continue to use him even 12 years later+ and still not care about buying a new one.
I got a T410 (dead), T420, T430, T520
However, all of them have bad asl battery lifes, where can I get trustable battery replacements for the T430/T420 at least? (I'm from Europe)
Also, I'd love to upgrade the T420 by putting my T430's 3rd gen CPU in the T420, is that possible?
(The T430's screen broke, so I have to use an external monitor which sucks, and the T420 has a fingerprint reader, but has slower CPU (2250m vs 3320m) and GPU (HD2000 vs HD4000))
So if I'd be able to put the T430's CPU in the T420, and get a new battery, that'd be the best
I see something selling one for 100$ nearby i5 2gen 320gb HDD, it doesn't have a battery. Should I buy it ? I need one computer for coding, accounting, browsing and other day to day stuff
How much did the display upgrade cost? I was thinking about doing it but the adapter seems to be pretty expensive.
$150 screen and adapter. Probably not worth it.
They're also very good for studying. They're not nearly as noisy as HP, ASUS and Acer laptops so you people don't look at you in class. Just bought a refurbished T460 for education and i know it will rock.
Late to the party, my wife and I have T520 Thinkpads in addition to our desktops. I'm also using a T420 as a poor man's server on our home LAN with a large HDD stuck into the DVD bay. The only changes I've made to the Thinkpads is to replace the HDD with SSDs.
Lusting after a T480 as an upgrade but as we are not gamers the T520 thinkpads are fine and we have no desire to move to Win 11.
I use my T420 still to this day! Back in 2017, it was my main music-making device AND it was my first gaming computer when I bought a GPU and a PCI-E to ExpressCard adapter and ran an RX 7970. I was able to play Rise of the Tomb Raider on it as well Doom 2016 (heavily compromised but still)! Nowadays, since I have a dedicated desktop for the majority of my computing tasks and gaming, it's used as a media server and I have a 1TB hard drive inside it specifically for use with my modded PlayStation 2. I have the ethernet ports connected on both devices and the T420 serves the ISOs to Open PS2 Loader over SMB, so I can play over 200 PS2 games whenever I want, straight from the laptop! I use it surprisingly often, I'm currently playing through Tony Hawk's Underground 2 and Tomb Raider Legend.
Make a video about your setup and how to do it.
@@diwashbharati9914 Oh I don't have that stuff anymore unfortunately :/ Edit: Well, the eGPU stuff, I don't. The PS2 server already has videos on it
T420 fanbase. Upgradability of hard drives. Tank is right name.
I recently got myself the T420 with the i7-2620M, 12GB RAM and the Quadro NVS 4200M.
I might do the 3rd Gen CPU swap and max out the RAM. 😁👍
I gifted this to my dad and he loves it
I personally prefer the T430 as it can use Vulkan which opens up a ton of stuff including Proton.
watching this on my W520 and it's still very fast. ssd is a must
the only valid reason to use an old think pad is the lack of ime and such subsystems. so you stick to an old one when you wanna have complete control over your hardware and software. other than that it's just nostalgia and personal joice. I have both old and new. my new one can do everything this one can except for cpu upgradability. but with 16c32t I wonder when I'll ever need that. I have pcie passtrough and all the good stuff.. which is plenty.. but don't get me wrong, you will have to ript my t500 and x200 out of my cold dead hands
Framework iv in DOSbox works well in the T420. Roll on (back) the reversion to DOS for love of vintage and to escape doomscrolling and perennial bombardment with advertising... ;-). ❤😊
why do some T420's have a fingerprint reader on the right and some dont?
Still using my T410
I use it's big brother, The 520.
Mine is my XP/7 retro gaming on the go machine
Dual core dual thread i5
Upgraded to 16gb of ram
1tb wd blue 128mb cache hard drives xp,7, shared storage partition
Amzon dvd burner drive thats much quieter and less vibration then sony OEM drive
Express card usb 3.0 card
Aftermarket extended live battery like the one in video
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I used my T420 for CNC machining and 3d modeling with 3d printers. I needed to get a new laptop recently. Now I'm thinking about NOT buying the 2024 thinkpad after watching your video. Great job on the video!
I'm running MacOS Monterey on my T420 in addition to Windows10 and Linux Mint!
WHAT
This is awesome!
Any advice on where to learn to do this?
@@chuckery5177you can't be serious?Are you a linux user?
Em... W530 can also upgradeability so-so, but also can provide 32 gb ram
My Favourite, My Baby, Greetings ! :)
Im watching this on a T420
T420? Beautiful, my favourite, I give ya 420 pound for it, talk to me, Terry Tibbs.
the thunderbolt issue is scaring me from buying t480
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Umpf. Came here too early.
so do I
Bro you sound like Ali G😂
Stay away from t480 and t480s! They have thermal throttling issues
*promosm* ☝️
Windows 🤮
Wat?
@@richardneil4651Windows 😱😱
@@richardneil4651 windows 😱
windows... 7
I destroyed my thinkpad t420 with my friends. We used a shovel, a baseball bat, a hammer, and a machete. It was fun as hell.
Cringe!!!!!
Next time just smash a HP Stream and Chromebooks
@@PreciousAlpschindler facts. I have owned both and they are terrible