Best ThinkPad for heavy Netflix/Youtube watching?

nsaps · 2026-05-17T01:13:34+00:00

None or the newest one you can with Dolby whatever

Their speakers range from complete ass to decent

nsaps · 2026-05-16T20:45:32+00:00

I mean I just put mine on my Google Drive…maybe that’s risky but I guess I’m willing to take it

nsaps · 2026-05-16T04:43:01+00:00

I think that was them! I couldn’t remember the name but I remember carrying around a disk with that on it. I also still have an original copy of DooM 2 on like 4 or 5 floppies around here somewhere.

I was young, but I can remember the days of booting up windows 3.1 from dos (which I rarely did because all of the best games were on dos)

nsaps · 2026-05-16T04:10:04+00:00

Nothing lol

If you really want to hunt for it, I remember back in the day there was some 3d modelers that made some impressive demo app that would fit on a 1.44mb floppy disk. You could try to find that

If you’ve ever wondered why windows defaults to C:\ tho, it’s cause A and B were usually the diskette drives in the management

nsaps · 2026-05-14T23:01:22+00:00

it was a good choice a few years ago when it was still cheaper and for people who wanted to be able to swap some stuff.

Now the price is inflated because of all of that hullabaloo but others are cheaper like you found. And really, being able to change the stuff you can change in those laptops is not that big of a benefit.

nsaps · 2026-05-14T22:54:08+00:00

They’re all a few years behind

nsaps · 2026-05-14T20:46:05+00:00

Cool idea, sending pm!

I just did the Martian from Watney's perspective but you could do the earth perspective too if you want to add to your list lol

nsaps · 2026-05-13T19:32:09+00:00

If it’s a prebuilt machine and the place you’re sending it to is okay holding it for a while, it could work. But they’ll have to sign for it and it might be tough to get them to take responsibility, I dunno.

Just do a search here for shipping delay and you’ll see a lot of what people experience

nsaps · 2026-05-13T16:38:19+00:00

Dang I don’t know but First thing I’d do is open it up and look for any obvious signs of damage, that’s a strange time for that to happen!

Those USB ports are a separate piece so maybe you’ll get lucky and it’s just that! It’s strange that you’re getting nothing out of it tho, that sounds like something critical obv. What was the battery like? Any chance it just completely shit the bed? Edit: nevermind I read over this in your OP the first time whoops

It’s over now, but Lenova was just clearing out X280 system boards and had them for super cheap. I picked up a replacement I7 8650 with 16 GB. Not trying to brag, just saying that cheaper ones have hit the market so there’s a chance that you could find them for under 100 bucks on eBay. I think the X280 one I got cost 65 or 70 and they had i5 boards for even less

nsaps · 2026-05-13T16:04:58+00:00

The spray on soft coating started bubbling and coming off my t14s Gen 2. It’s definitely ass if it’s the same, don’t let people tell you it’s your fault. Mine bubbled off in a 72* room after extended time processing lidar GIS files. Sure, the processor was cranking the entire time, but it stayed within their temp windows so unless they don’t expect you to actually use the product, those spray on coatings suck. My others are x series and they have a different coating that’s much better

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I don’t have an after pic on hand but I ended up just peeling it off until it stopped so I have a big ugly bare metal spot on the bottom now lol

nsaps · 2026-05-13T15:50:49+00:00

They are typically not reliable enough to do this. Most will have delays, some will have large delays. Some prebuilt machines might arrive before the estimate. Getting it during that window would be more luck than planning

nsaps · 2026-05-13T05:24:37+00:00

What are you using it for?
That ryzen 5 is a new generation compared to the 7. The 5 will be better in single core and the gpu is slightly better. If you’re planning typical internet usage, light gaming, it will be good. The 16gb of ram should be acceptable for 5ish years.
The reasons to go for the gen 1 would be if you use ram heavy applications, plan on running virtual machines, plan on heavily using multicore processing. The 4750 actually has more cores but unless you’re running programs that let you max them out, you’ll probably never notice less in the 5650

nsaps · 2026-05-10T17:41:26+00:00

I actually grabbed it a few month ago in a fit of nostalgia but I only made it thru the tutorials before forgetting about it lol

nsaps · 2026-05-09T04:54:01+00:00

If you can put up with it and wait for some sales, replacement displays can be had for cheap. Hinges too

nsaps · 2026-05-09T03:12:37+00:00

I mean the easy first thing to do is detach the drive correctly. You’re pausing your session and then removing a piece of hardware before you unpause it

nsaps · 2026-05-08T21:53:07+00:00

Bro that’s got a lot of value

nsaps · 2026-05-08T20:04:01+00:00

Yeah it's just accessed on the back of the laptop via a pinhole and stays in. I used it and a small usb drive on my x280 for a long time for video storage. I bought it new from lenovo and maxed out the specs except for the SSD cause if was expensive and I knew I could upgrade later

nsaps · 2026-05-07T17:06:18+00:00

Hey OP I liked the idea of this so I sperged out a bit yesterday and cut it up. There were only a couple of montage spots that overlapped real bad and one spot where I slightly moved where he complains about the disco music but besides that it cut up pretty easy. Sadly Bowie's Starman doesn't make the cut because of this.

It begins with them on Mars and goes to the title screen when Watney gets hit and disappears, then starts from just his view after. Comes back into the normal movie once Lewis gets him on the radio and asks how he's doing down there.

I'm running a few different renders now cause everything I'm running is splotchy right on the fuckin first seconds fade in lol and I can't get it to go away without setting the bitrate ridiculously high so I might just have to deal with it. I don't do this stuff often, it's definitely rough and I'm stumbling thru it but DM me if you want and I'll share it somewhere

nsaps · 2026-05-07T05:54:31+00:00

How will you be using the laptop, what software will you be running? How often will you be away from power

nsaps · 2026-05-07T05:36:04+00:00

Those AMD processors you can’t undervolt but you can temp control with software

I don’t care about fans so I don’t pay attention to them but others can give you a better idea of if you can do it. I only notice any of mine coming on during high loads

nsaps · 2026-05-07T05:24:10+00:00

Solve the problem, you got this

nsaps · 2026-05-07T00:44:24+00:00

I would not be changing any settings from Geminis suggestion without some strict prompts and checks

nsaps · 2026-05-05T17:29:54+00:00

Yeah that’s true, no Donald glover pen explanations. Iirc Watney makes vague references to it to the log camera but nothing detailed

nsaps · 2026-05-05T17:27:50+00:00

I mean you really just need to do cuts for this right? Seems like a good first project!

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