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22 Dec 2024 05:23

After months of not having a PC for myself i got my first ThinkPad....(i also have a question plZ read)

In the subway station....

Back home

And holy shit it is nice.

After looking for a job for over a year and finally getting one, i saved up enough for a T480 which was posted on FB Marketplace by a local electronics shop for 95000 CLP (about 96 USD), which was listed as having both batteries dead, but other than that it just had usual wear and tear.....almost no scratches though (I plan on getting a skin, a backlit keyboard and a glass trackpad so i dont really mind). It came with an HDD as the boot drive though (its seriously being a bottleneck), but i already bought a 2230 256 gb nvme locally + a 2230-to-2242 adapter and a internal battery from AliExpress which is on the way,

First thing i noticed when i first held this guy is the build quality.....i already heard these things are meant to be tanks but holy shit its better than i thought. This thing is made beautifully, compared to my good ol' Inspiron 3421 (which i sold for parts after using it for the last 7 or 8 years) and the (more modern) Asus Vivobook X1605ZA i've been sharing with my dad this last year this feels way more compact, sturdy and even heavier, you can almost not bend it, and the matte, kinda rough finish on the palmrest and the somewhat rubberized top lid all feel pretty premium. If you only ever used consumer laptops like me, i tell you, this is a big upgrade.

Speaking of performance, im satisfied, even before upgrading this with an SSD, which btw, other than the HDD this came with the usual i5 8250U and 8 gigs of ram. I dont really run too-heavy stuff, but for my use case its more than enough for (hopefully) the next decade. I ran vanilla Minecraft, which is supposed to be an unoptimized mess (absolutely no mods, version 1.19.4 and on a pretty advanced and heavy survival world to be specific) at 60 fps just fine. For comparison, my little Inspiron (which had a i5 3337U, ssd and 8 gigs of ram) couldnt even do 15 fps.......i also ran GTA 4 and 5 and Counter Strike 2 and all are playable on low settings at about 30 fps (i think)

As someone who likes to tinker with the tech she owns, all the mods and upgradeability were also a selling point for me, and i plan to eventually max this thing out over the next year. After the ssd ima go for some ram, and after that ill try to go for a display (this came with the fearmongered 768p TN panel, but i almost always used these kinds of displays so honestly im unbothered by it). Its going to be fun.

I have a question tho; its ok if, while im waiting for my battery to arrive, to disable thunderbolt from the bios to avoid the bug? Cuz the drivers werent updated when i got this, i tried updating them and the installer already warned be about having a charged battery, i did it anyway and the computer just shut off before rebooting, probably because it has to temporarily disable the charging ports or smth. I got scared thinking i bricked something, but thankfully the port still works.

TL;DR: I love it.

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