REVIEW: ThinkPad T420 (ＢＬＡＺＥ ＩＴ 真トわ)
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2017
- An overview of the ThinkPad T420.
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Don't worry Luke, I come on my t450 daily
Ayo?
Didn't know yogurt is the new meme name for cum. Internet beats me everytime
"yeah, thats not a scuff... its just a yogurt stain... ummm... dont worry about it."
~Luke Smith circa 2017
he _really_ likes thinkpads, that's all
"yogurt stain"
YAKULT STANES
nope that was Sperm Cells
Internet spoiled my mind too much to believe this
YEP
I dropped my thinkpad on the concrete once. The concrete broke.
George I slammed my thinkpad into my friends face and I can report that his face needed more repairs than the thinkpad.
I once repaired the faulty fan in my thinkpad and concecuentially broke a lil tab and lost a bunch of screws. It would come undone sometimes if u moved it around too much; once the actual touch trackpad fell off as my teamate connected my pc to the VGA half way thru an exposition of mine at uni... The expo was for the class of "computer architechture" pretty funny xD
I threw a nokia at my thinkpad, it was like in the Avengers when Thor's hammer hit Captain America's sheild
i did the same with my dell precision and the planet split into 2 pieces
@@jugostran should I buy one for $200 US ?
>sees t420 video from luke
>goes to ebay and buys one the same day
thanks luke,
t. new proud owner of a thinkpad
> this isnt 4chan
Just do:
$mod+enter
yaourt -R --clean stain
And it will be as good as new
Ali Mürteza Yeşil luke@bl4z3p4d420$ yaourt -clean yoghurt stain
alias yogurt="yaourt"
I just got one of these, put 16 gig's of ram bigger battery and a 500 gig ssd, a 1tb hard drive things a beaut
The 500 Ghz SSD in the back port is limited to SATA 1 where the side HD home runs at SATA 2..(lenovo info)
not sure if u meant 'things a beauty' or 'things a beast'...good thing is both of them work
Yeah the only bad thing about it is poor screen :(
how I thought it only supported 8gb
@@CryptoKang Nah, you can put two 8GB sticks on it. One stick you can access by unscrewing the lid on the back of it, the other you have to remove the keyboard to access it. Easier than it sounds.
Typing this on a T420 I just picked up the other day. First ThinkPad I've ever had and I'm loving it. It's in mint condition, came with the i5, 8gb of ram, 120gb SSD, 1600x900 screen, nVidia NVS 4500M. Just flashed a custom bios to remove hardware whitelisting, unlock all advanced bios menus and enable 1600mhz ram to run at full speed. Will look to put 16gb of 1600mhz ram in soon and probably a bigger hard drive and have a alienware m14x r2 1600x900 panel in the mail to upgrade soon also.
@@NamasenITN try pressing the Boot Menu button when the bios screen pops up (actual fkey depends on bios, usually f8 or f10), then selecting the usb stick in there, unless you mean the stick won't even show up in that menu.
Wait, your can install the M14x panel in the T420??
@@maskednil sure can and I did back then. Still got that t420 too.
@@hellbenthorse nice!
hey, which bios did you use ?
“yogurt stain” ... sure buddy.
We all know Luke doesn't smoke weed, he only smokes crack.
free crack
@@cthedosboss5113 lol
He smokes yoghurt
Youll cowards
You could potentially have four 'hard' drives, depending on if you really need mechanical. You have the UltraBay, the regular hard drive slot, the dock you mention, and you have an mSATA port if you upgrade the BIOS. 5:49
"That is ......ehhmmm....... a yogurt stain!". yogurt comment # 48590.
I love you for the title and vapor wave aesthetic hahah.
I'm about to get my first thinkpad! The T520. It was an impulse bid and then i realized I wanted the T420 for more attractiveness of the size. But the 520 that's on it's way has great specs so i figured i could sell it for more than i got it for if i really wanted the 420.
Anyway, thanks for the upload!
So glad you kept the yogurt part in XD
the T520 is a good workstation size. Its a big chonker but its nice having the bigger screen and you can even put slices of pizza or something on the sides of the keyboard cuz they biiiiig
@@jeepsalt lol thank you for the pizza tips (5 years later) ((still using my 520 in bed to fall a sleep to videos (((of your t420))) ))
"if you have a trackpoint... USE IT." ~ Luke Smith "I have never heard such wisdom spoken from a carbon based lifeform before..."~ Me
You know, Thinkpads may not look slick, but it still has a billion times more io than any Mac.
ive been waitin for this review for years
Thank you for recommendation, got one for myself and recommended it to a couple of friends who also got one each. Everybody's happy.
I have a Dell xps 13 and just switched to Mint. Loving the change so far. I'm no tech God but chose to immerse myself in a (friendly?) new environment and must admit it is fun to begin to learn new things. My wireless network printer was my only hiccup, but is working now.
nice timing mate. i'm rolling smoke and watching you.
Thanks for the review, very helpful.
Nice video as always! Estetik
I have the T400 which I recently purchased from a company online and it has the battery indicator with other lights on it and I am glad that it does have that feature on it. The computer I got had Windows 10 installed on it, but originally had Windows Vista on it. I got it to have one to put ArcaOS 5 on and it works finally after doing some changes to the computer.
I got a ThinkPad W530. ThinkPads in general tend to be rock solid stable machines. And very powerful for what you pay as well.
I also bought one this year refurbished for 240€, with ssd and arch linux it's fantastic machine :)
It did bring a tear to my eyes 😢 oh my days. My first thinkpad was a T60 i bought for 50$ MXN at age 11... It just barely died a month ago it worked flawlessly dual booting WX and ubuntu 16.04 till the very end, wine, dx9, u name it idk how but it all worked. I still have an even older thinkpadr the R40, it runs puppy linux atm. 0 complaints at all. U forgot to mention the lil lamp light instead of webcam, fuck theese fancy LED keyboards, get them outta here! Bring back my headlight. 10/10
He did mention the headlight haha, how did your t60 break?
That battery light amazes me. I was rationalizing it in my head like "oh maybe that was a little too much work and they just said fuck it", but then you showed it was on the back, and I lost my shit. I guess people just make dumb decisions some times.
9:39 Rocking the F-91W huh, great taste and a nice coincidence I was wearing mine right now!
bl4ze it! just bought mine yesterday. still a beast (w/ upgrades fo sho)
8:19 RAM up to 16GB. Quad Core I7-2670QM. SSD up to 8TB (4TB for OS + 4TB for Caddy bay). Display FHD IPS 1920x1080. Expresscard 34 USB 3.0. Battery: +40hr {Prime 9Cells 94Wh + Slice Battery 94Wh}. This will out preform the most intel xeon modern laptops,
Fresh 6 Cell lasts me 3 hours, yours is about 3x as big but lasts 13h as long. How come? I read a lot of news article stating those numbers but never met anyone actually achieving those..
you influenced me so much that i bought one:P
How is your experience?
felt fitting watching this video today
One day I learnt the wonder of i3wm
The other day I bought a Thinkpad x102e
It is very underpowered but works well enough as an ssh client with i3wm and Arch.
Fav just because of the title and thumbnail.
nice. watching on a T420. i recommend. highly.
I just got an X220, can you access the mSATA slot by just removing the keyboard (like for a T520) or do you have to get the palm rest out as well?
I just got mine last week, a used T480
It's such a good machine I'm actually surprised
tomorrow I'm buying this one ^_^
t420 is the G.O.A.T.
Can you stream to google chrome with the T420 or X220?
Luke, whats about data collection of lenovo? are ok with that violation of privacy?
Thank you
You can get the T520 for a 15.6" screen, which I prefer because it reminds me of old laptops that come with Windows XP, like my dad's old Latitude D800.
the t420 does have a battery indicator. it is on the back of the screen next to the hinges.
Thinkpad T420 = Nokia 3310 of Laptops
Late to the party. We are using a T420 as a poor man's server on our LAN. Upgraded to SSD for the main drive and used a drive caddy in place of the DVD to add a multi-TB HD for mass storage.
My wife and I each have a T520 in addition to our normal desktop PCs if we need a portable computer. Certainly not small and thin but for us they get the job done for us.
This week I bought a T420s for €110 (could have been €90 but VAT is a mf) because I wanted a pc on which I could do CUDA programming without having to set up an eGPU for my X220.
I have yet to test it out but this has an intel core i7-2640M CPU and a NVIDIA NVS 4200M GPU. It even had 8gb of RAM already installed and I managed to buy at a third of its second hand market price because battery is shit (30 min) and one of the speakers was noticeably scratched (not damaged, just superficial wearing).
I may upgrade the battery and change the drive with a 256GB SSD once the guarantee wears off but I'm happy with that purchase.
It has 4 usb ports. 1 port is the dual esata/usb. The back usb is great for charging phones not too fast, it can charge from the battery if you set it in BIOS.
Yes, it's the best.
I bought T440 a month ago but I plan onto buying more Thinkpads because I feel I can't resist it lol ..
I'll probably buy older Thinkpads because I want that 7row keyboard
My first ThinkPad and current laptop is a ThinkPad T460s
Still miss my IBM Thinkpad T40p 😭
Joanna Rutkowska totally approved the T420 to run Qubes OS 3.o then...Not Bad!!
Luke 10/10 Bro...Luke I want to Get a Think pad with the Classic Keypad but hears what I want I want a Backlit Keypad, a 1TB SSD, as much RAM as I can get and a Sliding Webcam Cover am I asking too much I can do all the mods myself what model would you advise??? Peter
What WM do you use in laptop in this video?
You can also install a mSATA card on the Motherboard. With this and the ultra bays, you can actually have 4 hard drives on a T420.
czarnoff can it work with t450 too?
Can you still find mSATA nowadays? BTW is it as good as 2.5" regular SSD ?
This is the first Thinkpad I have ever used, I just got one like 4 days ago. Needs a new battery.
just got a good deal on one of these on eBay. thanks.
Why does your T420 have bluetooth? Mine has no bluetooth but has a battery notifier like on your x series, I guess there are different versions?
Have an x230 for work, doesn't have the classic keyboard but even the new keyboard fells way better than the average notebook keyboard
luke says labtop, we call him labtop luke
Will you review the X-series too?
modern processor on clasic thinkpad.
and x200 is the best clasic x series lol
(dirt cheap and still works okay on win 10 surprisingly)
aldo s I use x200s as my laptop.
Can you find these anymore?
wtf nonfree software
Install Gentoo
Fuck Windows
5:49 I guess you can even have 4 hard drive on this computer ( with the dock one ). Mine has a SSD M2 type thing drive next to the RAM port on the underside, then the hdd accessible by the side (where the lid is missing on your one) , plus as you said when you put a hdd caddy at the dvd drive place, then one on the dock ? : )
*Dropped his thinkpad on the sidewalk*
Man that's awful, how much did it cost to get the sidewalk fixed?
My first Thinkpad was also the T420 and I have been using it since 2016 as my daily driver (currently running Fedora 31). I have heard you talk about the X220 but my question is, why would I want one over the T420? Great content, keep it up Luke!
Does your T420 have bluetooth like Luke's? Mine doesn't and has a battery indicator where his bluetooth indicator is. Why is it different? I just got mine like 4 days ago it's my first thinkpad. Also its currently running Manjaro KDE if you wanted to know.
@@Jaoheah mine has bluetooth but the chip doesn't work so I bought a bluetooth dongle on Amazon for $10 and it works great.
I am running both a T 420 and an x201T.
have the T495, which has Amd Ryzen - great Linux computer
comfy with my T420s
I prefer the T430 because I don't mind the keyboard and actually like the screen.
I have a T60 and a T520, have tried trackpoints on both machines in both Windows (7 on the T60 and 10 0n the T520) and Linux, and I just prefer touchpads. Maybe it's because I'm a 2 finger typist and don't care if I'm not glued to the keyboard.
Yeah that would be exactly why lol
hey please make a video about use the thinkpad x series dock to the thinkpad t420
i bought one for my cousin for christmas. I wonder if he'll like it
Thank You ThinkPad
Sam C *Legacy Thinkpad
My thinkpad smells of smokes
Thank you IBM
Update
I fixed it
Thank You Thinkpad
The trackpoint psyop is hilarious as someone's who's had two laptops with them, you will use it once, go "huh that's weird" and then never ever touch it again
comments didn't disappoint xD
T420 blaze it bro. Nokia 3310 is the fabled blade of retro and the T420 is the unbreakable shield of many hard drive tomes of wisdom. lmao
The Best Keyboard Layout money could buy.
also see: ThinkPad X61 to X230
Dude that is my baby!
I have just ordered my first thinkpad yesterday a t430i and I can't wait to see how good it is, what is the difference between the t430 series and the 420 series?
One thing is the T430 has a socketed processor so you can upgrade it. The 420 is soldered. BUT... The 430 ditches the classic keyboard for the island Chiclet style keyboard.
Ryan Foster I’m glad I bought the t430 then I rather have a notebook that I can upgrade than just a better keyboard
Same homie
@@RyanFoster2013 the t420's cpu isn't soldered
There is also an mSATA slot for another SSD.
As of writing this I bought a ThinkPad from Ebay, I guess I'm part of the club now
What ThinkPad model? How long did you search for a good bargain. Could you please collaborate about the deal?
Thank you
“It’s over.” -Luke Smith
Next X60 :D :D
Does the T420s differ a lot? Newer keyboard? I need advice. :/
Pajlow differ compared to what?
It's the budget version of the regular T420. The keyboard is the same but don't buy it. Get the regular T420 as because you can upgrade the CPU after a BIOS update. The T420s has a CPU that's soldered on to the motherboard.
I would get the T430, better graphics and cpu, but overall not bad
Druaga1's aproved product!
i can't ver my Wi-Fi on it: do giù Now the driver' s nane?
jeandelinuxpc :P sometimes
You can install an mSATA SSD in a t420 and you can have three drives without the base.
Thinkpad vs Nokia 3310 battle of the century
My mans predicted T-Series
Did you ever try OpenBSD?
Maybe FreeBSD would be a better BSD to try out. ;-)
Also vote for FreeBSD.
Better off using some linux... Bsds usually dont have a great support, nor a big and active community and usually have slow and small update servers. And you can do the same things in linux, that you can do in bsds.
@@MrGincone About the support or the things you can do in bsd that you can also do in linux?
Because linux support is awready 'small', but at least with a 'big' community. Bsds dont even have that.
About things you can do in bsd and also in linux, i never saw until that moment something you would run in bsd that you cant on linux, even if for some reason, there would be a program compiled only for bsd, it would be a matter of recompiling it with the sourcecode and some adaptations. But i didnt use that much bsds to find out something, there could be something that bsd has that linux doesnt.
BSD on desktop is a meme IMO
thinkpad week now?
put an IPS into it pls
T420 is the best.
You should print a new cover for the HDD (or is it SSD?)
If anyone needs a HD version of that background, let me know.
5 Thinkpad vs 1 MacbookPro
It's durable, it is a classic, it comes with yogurt stains.
These ThinkPad's are one of the best. Great Keyboards and they are almost built like a tank. even tho these are a Lenovo product, these are great. right now On the newer Lenovo ThinkPad's, the quality isn't any better than what i would expect from a basic Cheap laptop from Hp for example. I have a cheap Hp 530 laptop that came with vista home basic for example, that one is built like a tank compared to one of the newer ThinkPad L480 with usb-c. I love ThinkPad's but if it is Just a Lenovo Outside its ThinkPad family I stay away. i have not had a single good experience with the main Lenovo brand and in all of these products there always was an serious defect in them that made them not worth using. I think these on this video are very good, i also have the T530. But i also have one of the Hp EliteBook with a metal body and this i think beats all of the ThinkPad's in Quality but they do not have as good keyboard as the ThinkPad's do.
I have a T420 too! Lost the N,H and the trackball tho..
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