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Cmon we wait decades to get rid of all of these… it’s just nostalgia, not want to go back

24:46 Isn't there a version for thinkpad? (Lenovo Commercial Vantage)

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Excellent video. I'm a bit of a ThinkPad fan myself. My first ThinkPad was the T61 14" widescreen. It did not have the IBM logo. I have about 7 ThinkPad's currently, the newest being the L460. I don't have the T61 anymore. Some notes: 1. For me, the last IBM ThinkPad is the T61 with the IBM logo. 2. You said the X41T has a dual core CPU. Not true. It has a Pentium M CPU which is single core. 3. The X41T has a hard drive whitelist which means it will only accept certain hard drives and nothing else. 4. Centrino basically means the CPU and Ethernet and wireless are all Intel-made. 5. Later on, Intel introduced Centrino 2 (or Centrino Duo) which is the same as Centrino, but has a dual core CPU.

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Got a T470 for my engineering studies and works perfect for autocad, inventor, proteus, etc

The thought comes to mind that as we age we are meeting the medium halfway in that as we lose our hearing the hiss disappears😅

Lenovo has sullied the ThinkPad brand by making their laptops just like the competition, the only distinction being the name and the trackpoint which isn't even available on all their ThinkPad models.

Thanks for a trip down memory lane. My T60 and X200s are the coolest laptops I've ever owned. The T450 also served me well, although it felt more like an ultra book than a rugged Thinkpad. They had so much character and I felt like a hacker whenever I pulled them out. Unfortunately the temptations of ARM has made me switch to MacBook Air M1 and it's just far more practical, while being as dev-friendly as Linux. I have to admit it's soulless and feels like an appliance, as watching this video made me miss my ThinkPads.

The fact that star fox 64 is only an honorable mention and not even mentioning star fox on super nes or kid icarus makes me want to throw out this list...

we dont trust huawei, why trust lenovo?

Good stuff thanks!

In the early 90s I became obsessed with the IBM PC's I bought numerous ones from thrift stores usually around $10. I enjoyed getting them working to see what was on the hard drive. Along with other vintage computers XT's, AT's apples, Victors, Commodore 64's Vic 20s and other models I had at least 50 of them and tons of other miscellaneous parts. Then in the 2000s Convinced by friends, I decided to make room in my garage and threw them all away along with the Vintage IBM keyboards, miscellaneous hardware and monitors. Piled them up on the road into a big mound. I basically threw away thousands of dollars. I did keep a couple and ended up selling them a few years ago for around $400 by themselves without a keyboard or monitor. I am still kicking myself. @ModernClassic They were stored in a hot South Florida garage. Before I threw them Away I tried to boot a few of them up to see if they still worked. Everyone I tried Would start to smoke due to Dried out power supply capacitors. That helped in my decision to throw them away. I did try to locate computer clubs on the Internet to see if they wanted to take them off my hands For free and I received no replies. I even had a few IBM luggables and achieved the same smoky results. I should have at least saved the original IBM keyboards. They sell for a pretty penny on ebay.. A young kid and his father came out to buy the mentioned few IBM PC's I kept. I called them later because I had a lot of PC junior Stuff including the aftermarket upgrade modules and other hardware by Racore . I ended up giving all PC junior stuff to them for free. I did keep a small Module I forget its purpose (Maybe an 8088 processor upgrade module?) but I sold it on the PC Junior Form (brutman.com) for $100. They said it was very rare and members were fighting over it. The person that ran the PC junior website indicated he had never saw one in real life. The kid told me later that he took all the PC Junior Stuff to his computer club meeting. Everybody was blown away as they were very rare items and Fellow members were green with envy.

For me the big difference is between normal bias and type 2 tapes. The first is junk. But Type 2 tapes ---CAN BE-- quite good. Assuming a great quality of recording source, a great deck, and a fairly new type 2 tape? They can be quite good. For instance, with some dBX decks you can get up to 110 dB of dynamic range. That is CERTAINLY a level of semi pro audio, rivaling pro audio. It is certainly as good as many reel to reel decks. It is better than VHS Hi-Fi and some other tape formats. The whole tactile feel and act of handling tapes, writing in the menus, recording your favorite bands.... all of it was an experience that those of us who lived thru the era recall with fondness. Was it all that good? Yeah, I think it really was.

PS2 90 and 95 were upgradable both on the socket than with a new board from IBM, almost 4 years before the production of this Compaq

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Wow, that was a long video to say "It's an unanswerable question.". 😂 Not that I disagree, mind you. While I did know Lenovo bought IBM's entire PC division, I had no idea they kept the division's spirit alive as well! The Lenovo-IBM deal seems like literally the perfect corporate buy-out. Usually you end up hearing how these deals always end up burning one of the companies, if not both, usually the latter. But here, both IBM and Lenovo seemed to have got something out of it, with only the bureaucratics of end-user support seeming to be a mess. Also that X41T seems awesome! I couldn't help but notice the lock switch on the display bezel. With an orientation switch button next to it. Does that thing have an accelerometer? 😳 If not, what does it do?

I will say in the movie Jobs, all 3 acts show Woz pointing out that Apple II was apple, even up until the iMac launch. I don’t know how much personally Jobs cared by the late 90s about the Lisa, but I think the movie was using the fiction to prove your point.

IBM sent one of their veteran techs from the Southbury, CT facility to repair a Thinkcentre for my IT customer recently.

I had a T61p purchased new in Sep 2007. It had the IBM logo and shipped from China. It had the ever so useful Wireless USB. 😊

My best friend had a IIc plus. I remember because it was my first time using a 3.5 drive which seemed so hi-tech. We played a lot of Flight Simulator and California Games. Several years back I asked him what happened to it and his parents threw it out (with all his Star Wars toys) when they went into assisted living...

Great video. I'm wondering if the issues the SB Live are driver related. Phil's Computer Lab put out some content on this, and in fact he recommended avoiding the Dell version of this card, and going with the standard card. Even then he cautioned to use a specific driver to avoid issues.

I've long been curious as to what New Coke tasted like. We didn't get it in the UK, for obvious reasons it never launched here. But from around the mid to late 80's we did adopt some of the New Coke branding, with cans featuring the classic Coca Cola logo on one side and the Coke name on the other. If New Coke is sweeter than Pepsi, then I'm definitely not onboard with the formula. I've always disliked Pepsi because I find it way too sweet. I used to work at Pepsico, and the canteen vending machine was stocked exclusively with Pepsico drinks. I always wanted a Coke Zero, but had to settle for Diet Pepsi as it's the least sweet cola of Pepsi's offerings. Pepsi Max in the UK is even sweeter than regular Pepsi, I find it horrible. Coca Cola has that perfect balance of sweet and bitter. To go sweeter than Pepsi with New Coke would be an absolute deal breaker for me.

I have (deep breath) a T60 (with the big 4:3 screen), 2 T61s (one with the nvidia graphics in it), an X200 (with the dock that adds a optical drive), a T510 (that I am trying to scrub the melting rubber paint off of), and a T480s I picked off of Amazon. We also have 2 Ideapads, which aren't terribly impressive, and the wife also has a Chromebook (our son used one all through high school). Apart from the Ideapads, they've all been pretty decent (and the Ideapad I used wasn't that bad, although the touchpad has died for some reason). Everything is running Windows 10, except for the X200 which is on 7 (because after 7, Microsoft fatally messed up the pen usefulness), and the T60 (it has some software on it that I can't get to work on anything else -- and it's the only one I have IBM branded). All in all, I've been really happy with them.

I think Doslab electronics makes SSDs that replace those tiny hard drives

waht model thinkpad is this one @ 19:03

Great video on the subject, and that promo of Parklife had me drooling : )

I once had a laptop catch fire while I was using it, so rest assured there's ALWAYS a way it could crap out worse!

There is no clear distinction between IBM's Thinkpad and Lenovo's Thinkpad tbf. Thinkpad simply become Thinkpad and that's how the thing goes. For me Thinkpad has become their own line-up regardless of the switch to Lenovo. Lenovo did their best to modernize it but you can still tell it's the same Thinkpad when you use one. And the good thing is some of Thinkpad's greatness trickle down to Lenovo's other range of laptops.

I'd consider the final thinkpads that had real IBM DNA had 1) 7-row keyboards 2) blue enter key 3) Magnesium alloy used in their frame/body 4) non-"chiclet" style keys. As soon as all of that was gone... it was cheapened down to nothing. Modern thinkpads are a joke, all the worst design decisions copied from everyone else, difficult to take apart and fix, I just cannot recommend them anymore vs before they were class-leading.

The Active Protection Graphic always kills Me. With the Airbag coming out of the screen of the laptop. One of if not My favorite IBM graphics. The Absurdity of it is just, WOW.

lenovo did also took over the server high end work stations

I subscribed to your content waaay back on a separate account for the p50 review. Every video that you make, I enjoy. Thanks a ton

I just watched your video where you mentioned that you don't understand why cassette tapes are making a comeback or why they were such a big deal. Let me share some insights that might help explain this. Cassette tapes played a pivotal role in the rise of many music genres. They were essential in making punk and rap popular because they allowed bands and artists who might never have gained exposure to share their music. This was the first time that ordinary people could record and distribute their own music easily. In the punk scene, bands could capture their raw, unpolished sound on tapes and distribute them at shows or through underground networks. This DIY approach was crucial for the authenticity and growth of the punk movement. Similarly, in the early days of rap, cassette tapes enabled MCs and DJs to record their performances and share them within their communities, leading to the genre's explosive growth. Cassette tapes democratized music production at a time when recording in a professional studio was prohibitively expensive for many. This accessibility broke down barriers and gave rise to innovative sounds and voices that might have otherwise gone unheard. So, while digital formats offer convenience and high quality today, there's a special place in music history for cassette tapes. They were a game-changer, allowing countless artists to create and share their music with the world. This democratization of music production is why cassette tapes were, and still are, such a big deal.

16:36 - As Yngwie Malmsteen once said, "Less is not more! MORE is more!" 😁

Can confirm that a guy with an IBM logo on his shirt came to fix my Lenovo ThinkPad just a few months ago, this was in Norway. I asked him about it and he said that they do that from time to time if they are free for it, but otherwise they send sub-contractors. Usually they serviced servers and mainframes.

I just wish somebody would make a modern quality playback deck. I don't care about recording, but I've got hundreds of cassettes from the 1970s & 80s that I'd like to digitize before they totally deteriorate. Most of them are original, not commercially recorded. It's possible to buy a nicely restored legacy deck, but the prices are shocking. Same goes for VHS decks. I don't seek a deck to listen to, I want a good deck in order to digitize my original recordings. It would be pointless to digitize most commercially recorded cassettes, since the vast majority of those recordings are already available in one digital format or another. I bought my first cassette deck (Ampex) in the late 1960s. In college in the 1970s I upgraded to some of the best equipment available (certainly budget busters for me). I knew an old (younger than I am now) stereo guru who freelanced selling gear that was better than anything available locally in the stores. Anyway, over a span of decades using cassette decks, and accumulating hundreds of original recordings, along with great tapes & mix tapes from my vinyl collection...I probably never bought more than a half dozen commercially produced cassettes.

Wow this really opened my eyes, i used to diss lenovo as a school laptop type thing kinda like chromebook but nope pretty good laptop choice!

I'd probably say the ThinkPad was truly dead round about when we lost the 7 row keyboard, the spill-proofing, the magnesium alloy midframe and the useful HMM document which actually contains FRU listings. That wasnt the end of the decline though, the batteries got sealed away inside, the reliable docking port was replaced with USB-C jank, display bezels turned into stickers that are ruined after removal, the X series dipped down to 1 sodimm slot before eliminating user replacable RAM all together and the keyboard deck is now so thin that the trackpoint is painfully unresponsive. They've even pulled the same shit as Apple by riveting the keyboard into the palmrest on the newest models. It now takes a complete disassembly to swap that out.

I've found the best case is good condition 80's tapes, the second best case is a new tape that doesn't sound bad, which is a crapshoot. The quality on new tapes varies wildly, even on the same recording. For example, Taylor Swift's Speak Now rerecord sounds almost perfect, even a bit of soundstage and highs, while Midnights sounds like its underwater. Strangely, they are made in England a lot of the time, good or bad. I've gotten Sometimes Dolby reduces the hiss, sometimes it muffles everybody, but I've never gotten it to sound good enough to leave it turned on. Overall, if vinyl has a warm crackle, then tape has a sickly hiss. It sounds like film looks like.

Wish I had the 486 one with the butterfly keyboard that my dad had gotten from work.

This was an excellent video, and you made the perfect point that IBM always experimented with different form factors and materials since the beginning, something which the so called “IBM loyalists” seem to be oblivious to. My first ThinkPad was an R51 manufactured sometime in early 2005, with no Lenovo markings on it, however after it died I got another R51 from a friend, a later made unit that does have Lenovo markings on it, yet they were identical barring screen size and GPU spec, however both variants could have existed at either time they were made. I’ve owned many Lenovo ThinkPads, from the T60, the first of their own designs, to the P14s Gen 3 from 2022, and many others in between like my beloved T420, and all of them were excellent. There were a few duds here and there, like the T440 TrackPoint debacle, but honestly, even IBM had duds or models that weren’t successful, that’s just the way it goes with a product line, not all products are winners, but quite honestly, Lenovo have and continue to make great ThinkPads worthy of the name. They’re still better than most other laptops out on the market.

When I got my Thinkpad x60 tablet use everything was pretty much still alright apart from the latch. That latch is just always broken by default

Thinkpads were the most desirable pieces of technology in my group of friends between about 2003-2007. But they had some severe drawbacks people tend to forget now: - first of all the price.. a similar specced machine from other manufactureres was less then HALF the price of a ThinkPad.. as a student you could get a 50% discount (I think that program still exists today) and they would still be 500 bugs more then a similar Dell machine.. - they had mediocre displays (at that timeframe) with bad reaction times and an overall grey tint to them - and they were bad for gaming (because you couldn't get them with gaming GPUs) the build quality was something else though- especially when they still had the magnesium cases

The problem with premium work laptop is always the price, there is a reason why ThinkPad enthusiast doesn't just willy-nilly buy latest X1 carbon Gen 11 or last gen, most of people i know bought gen 7 or 8 on cheap, those laptop is always on sale from office clearance, still usable. The point is most of average user doesn't want shove $1000-2000 for a laptop with no gaming (or apple) moniker attached to it, and those would've are corporation or offices with money.

Wasn't the FIRST ThinkPad a paper pad that employees used to carry around to jot down ideas?

>Beginning with theword Actually. That's why we have the "Ackchyually" meme. Some people can't help themselves but to start every paragraph with either 'actually', 'technically', 'generally', or 'basically'. I guess it makes them think they sound intelligent. lol

Some of the non-ThinkPad Lenovos were actually pretty decent - I've had a couple of 3000 C200s, and whilst the specs were a bit behind the times in some areas, they were built to almost the same standard as the ThinkPads were, even if the keyboard wasn't on par. It is also amusing how some of the later "IBM" ones had both IBM and Lenovo logos on at the same time.

Believe it or not I am watching this on an IBM X31 in win xp using Oprah

To be fair when the last M keyboard left Lexington Kentucky the decline was already on