Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide

Re:Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide by MichaelGG on Saturday April 25, 2015 @04:01AM (#9437621)

I just bought an X250 after searching around for an alternative. The XPS 13 looked pretty good and I was about to buy it ... but no physical nipplepoint buttons. Maybe next time I'll be willing to risk it. (Yeah, the X250 looks like it has plenty of downgrades from the X201, but it's better than a T440p, and at least it's a known quantity whereas Dell has an even worse rep...)

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Re:Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide by csirac2 on Saturday April 25, 2015 @06:17AM (#9437886)

I'm typing this on an X230, with 16GiB RAM. I busted the screen recently and considered an X250... it's such a shame that "ultrabook" means "one DIMM slot" these days, i.e. they max out at 8GiB RAM - same as I was using in '2009 on my old X61s!

Luckily replacement screen parts are quite affordable these days. And before anyone complains, I do use all this memory, currently dom0 has 4GB free.

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Re:Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide by MichaelGG on Saturday April 25, 2015 @01:41PM (#9438964)

Good news! There are 16GB SODIMMs from "I'M Intelligent Memory". You'll have to look around to figure out what model exactly, but people have put them in new X series and they work.

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Re:Used ThinkPad Buyer's Guide by csirac2 on Saturday April 25, 2015 @07:16PM (#9439865)

Really? Last I checked there was no BIOS support to recognize them and Intel was only giving support for embedded CPUs. Ta, I'll have a look

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