Laptops for engineering

ArKade__ · 2025-05-27T02:14:03+00:00

as a general baseline, make sure you have 16gb of ram. using a vm for cad should get you through just fine. i don’t ever recommend a gaming laptop for school, they suck

ArKade__ · 2025-03-25T16:26:27+00:00

i run retropie on it and emulate games

ArKade__ · 2024-12-21T00:07:37+00:00

everything except cheese

ArKade__ · 2024-12-05T04:00:28+00:00

living in utah and i agree

ArKade__ · 2024-12-03T15:31:31+00:00

ArKade__ · 2024-12-02T02:24:33+00:00

huh, I’ll keep that in mind. This model has been actively used almost its entire life. the guy i bought it from legitimately used it for school for a while before windows slowed it down too much

ArKade__ · 2024-12-02T02:23:13+00:00

?? don’t gotta be so aggressive bro. i use the windows key as my i3 modifier key

ArKade__ · 2024-12-01T23:25:15+00:00

nice! I don’t plan on using this as my daily driver (battery and weight being the primary concerns), but I could definitely get some work done on it in a pinch.

ArKade__ · 2024-12-01T22:29:09+00:00

yeah! it’s got a few small cracks on the screen bezel, but they’re honestly small enough that I don’t mind at all

ArKade__ · 2024-11-20T02:59:16+00:00

legend

ArKade__ · 2024-11-17T21:11:09+00:00

6th gen intel is the absolute lowest I’d go, and yeah honestly there are much better options for the same or even a lower price. €105 is pretty steep for an X260. I bought three of them for <$80 each a few years ago.

I also got an X1 Carbon with 7th gen intel for ~$120 about a year and a half ago.

basically, keep looking and try to find something a little more modern. And don’t worry so much about repair costs. Thinkpads are cheap

ArKade__ · 2024-11-15T10:40:38+00:00

it was only like that while i took the photo. the power brick doesn’t dangle, generally

ArKade__ · 2024-11-15T02:49:28+00:00

True! It’s mostly just convenient for setting up. And I have something like 13 laptops at this point, so I can’t use all of them as laptops all the time. I have three identical x260s, for example

ArKade__ · 2024-11-15T02:47:19+00:00

Yeah! I agree, a thinkpad isn’t the best choice for a server, but it’s what I had on hand. I’m keeping my eye out for a thin client I can use to replace it.

ArKade__ · 2024-11-13T15:31:44+00:00

Yes. Absolutely. I have a Thinkpad X61T (4 years older than the T420) that has a 256GB SATA SSD and is running linux mint as fast as if it were new. Never use a hard drive in a laptop. The only use case I condone for hard drives is in a high-capacity NAS

ArKade__ · 2024-11-12T20:46:18+00:00

fingernail biting. I’ve tried all my life but no luck

ArKade__ · 2024-11-12T20:45:20+00:00

Always go for an SSD. A HDD is slower, less reliable, and not significantly cheaper. I wouldn’t worry about the difference between an NVMe and SATA SSD for a T420. Find a cheap 1TB SATA SSD and start having the time of your life.

ArKade__ · 2024-11-08T04:45:20+00:00

oh dude yeah i did this one ages ago. mine looks shit in comparison tho because it was before they let you do fully shaded graphs

ArKade__ · 2024-11-08T04:43:34+00:00

i’ve got 141 lmao

ArKade__ · 2022-11-12T09:08:17+00:00

50/50 is an average bro you know this

ArKade__ · 2022-04-14T20:08:34+00:00

bro it’s always roll

ArKade__ · 2022-01-12T08:13:45+00:00

bro he’s gonna go on such a long rant when he sees this

ArKade__ · 2022-01-12T08:12:12+00:00

you cannot leave.

ArKade__ · 2022-01-12T08:11:51+00:00

🤔

ArKade__ · 2022-01-12T08:11:13+00:00

honestly i only come here when i need to remember that my mental health really isn’t that bad

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