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@@ashwagandha-f4l try replacing the thermal paste

just search up Thinkpad T14 gen 1 on Ebay or Amazon and the ones with 10th gen intel or 4th gen ryzen are T14 gen 1.

yep especially since a new $300 laptop is completely unusable and or terrible in build quality in comparison

eh sure...the E14 is going to be cheaper and "better value" but the average person in average use is not going to notice the extra 8 gb of ram and the two extra cores. What they will notice is the extra heat from the two extra cores and the lower quality of the chassis, materials, keyboard, and screen. I'm not too sure about the E14 but the E15 and 16 has a ton of chassis flex, to the point of eventually destroying the whole motherboard over time. I mean sure people who understand and take care of tech can avoid that but your regular person is not going to do that and be left with a broken computer in 2-3 years. Lenovo is also very inconsistent with the quality of parts they put in their computers so even though in theory it should be the same specs, Lenovo is more likely to put the higher quality parts in the higher end models. Since the person that I was buying this computer for was willing to pay the premium for a solid computer that will last, I chose to avoid the cheaper E and L series. I will admit I didn't get the best deal on the T14. If you really searched, you could probably get one with the same specs for around that S200. But its going to be a lot more worn down and like I said, a non tech savvy person doing basic internet surfing and office work is not going to notice the slightly more performance but they will notice the worse condition and build quality.

Nice Lubuntu used to be my Linux distro of choice and it was solid. But the lack of an easy settings program for when I'm lazy made me switch to debian. How did you get the fingerprint scanner to work? I can set the fingerprint supposedly but it never actually lets me scan when it prompts me for sudo or login

Yeah I'm still trying to get a format for when I review computers. I usually talk about what I feel about the laptop which is why this laptop was so hard to talk about since I only had it for like a day where I set everything up and tested it out before I had to send it out to the person that wanted this thing. I'm real lazy so I don't write scripts and just free hand it. But I am trying to look at more laptop reviews to see what people want to see in a laptop review.

I do have to agree that macs are built very solid, even still. Its sad that cost cutting has brought the Thinkpad quality so low these days. If you are looking for a Thinkpad I would suggest starting from the T430 or T420. They have a good balance between modern and classic features and are still relatively cheap.

Nice! the great thing about the L series is that I don't think they ever had soldered ram so you can probably upgrade that ram even further

Ofc If it can survive the hell that is bed usage it can survive anything

@ so just because you can survive a jump from a building, you should jump off a building? Great logic.

nah I'm just lazy and I'm trying to justify my laziness

@@dcfbf place the laptop on a desk or flat surface so it increases the lifespan. Placing a laptop on a bed is the best way to get the fans clogged.

ik ik but my bed is so great for laptop usage in many ways: its a large area for me to do whatever, its comfortable, and my desk is completely occupied by my desktop. The fans getting clogged or the heat is an issue but I regularly change thermal paste and clean out my fans about once every few months so its not that big of an issue.

to me the x1 carbon is flimsy. Sure it doesn’t flex or anything but it is very fragile to the point of not being able to take a single drop. edit: Great laptop though, My X1 carbon is great even though there is damage to the screen

@@dcfbf in my case I use it for windows laptop and due to travelling I find it very comfortable. Negative is the fan... which is so irritating especially when used to my main laptop m3 macbook pro. I agree it is for sure not like the old school IBM die hard thinkpads. Lastly, the keyboard was, is and will be always the GOAT :)

I agree that keyboard is great. The fact that they managed to fit a keyboard with this much travel in such a slim laptop while having almost zero flex is absolutely amazing

The trackpad and screen could be defective. The battery…not sure what you mean by faulty but if it drains fast then from what I’ve read it’s a windows standby mode issue. Also there are many different generations of Thinkpad T14 by now…which one are you talking about? Plus don’t these things have like a few years warranties?

only if you do it first

Yes

Na uh its a ThinkPad

does it still work?

😂

How many performance improved?

I can try that sometime but for now I'm all done for internet on Windows 98

Check if all the USB-C ports work, there is two, both on the left side. There is a problem with this generation of ThinkPad with the Thunderbolt controller where it eventually fails due to unneeded writes to the controller, you can research more on this if you want, but just test that and make sure to update all firmware for the computer after you get it. If you want, you can check the other ports too...never hurts to check and you can save yourself a lot of headache as most of the ports are soldered to the motherboard.

@dcfbf Okay 💛

@@cryptopelgrim4751 ah yes the being so good you’re going broke problem. I more prefer going broke by having a wide variety of laptops though

How much time you getting on battery?

that is a little obsessive how are you going to charge all of those batteries?

@harisanker1000 around 6-8 hours

@@dcfbf i have an old t580 to charge them

ooh nice though I will have to tell you that the x1 carbon g8 does not have the keyboard 1.8mm travel but it only has 1.5mm. Other than that I think the x1g8 will be a great machine and I hope you'll like it

@@dcfbf I got it yesterday, and i love it! Only thing is, i may need to eventually replace the battery, because im getting terrible battery life

@@h6zrds Thats great! Well if you do need to replace the battery make sure to buy the right one and reference the hardware maintenance manual for help. These x1 carbons are usually pretty easy to take apart but its always good to be cautious

@@victorramsey5575 I’m glad that this video gave you nostalgia…but I don’t even own a laptop that dates back to 1992

yay someone actually watched that

Tip: And also remove the enternal and external battery just in case it shorts the backlight

Oh I have no way to test that as I don't have that Arch install anymore. But it did get fixed by just installing another operating system

Ok I'm reading through a lot of these comments suggesting all these browsers and I may consider making a video just testing various web browsers for windows 98

thanks i didn't know about that

@@escapetherace1943 well that machines shown in the video running arch is actually currently running debian

@@dcfbf nice. My main's on arch, my old x220 is debian. I figured debian was better because I can update it whenever, as I use the machine a lot less than my modern pc

@@escapetherace1943I still prefer windows for my newer pcs but ubuntu is basically on every one if my older ones around this age

I guess notable exceptions would be my x61’s which are on windows 7 and debian

huh?

The 3Com Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus Model number 3CXFE575CT

@@nadirafurry well I’m not exactly a windows 98 user but I can try it when I have some time

@@deadlizard64 really? firewire is useless to me as I don’t have any devices that use it currently

​@@dcfbf I thought it was a deliberate gag ... but I'm heavy into old video tech, I just love CCD sensors and standard definition and miniDV tapes, so of course I'll notice the one thing you didn't mention was my favorite thing :)

@@deadlizard64 I’ll make sure to mention it when I make another video about a laptop that has the 4pin firewire

Well some of these old laptops do go for less than a meal at a restaurant these days even for the good ones so I mean you can do something about it if you really want.

I would install anTix Linux and turn it into a useful machine again. Just a suggestion.

@@godfatheryt7626 if you are getting started with programming, anything can work

@@hovanthecool1995 you know they still make thinkpads right?

Yeah, they just cost a lot of money. ​@@dcfbf

not exactly, a t480 or anything from that generation is windows 11 compatible and they usually go for under 200

@@dcfbf yeah but they arent made by IBM like this model, Lenovo bought their computing business a long time ago and have been manufacturing them since

@@SilasTheSilent you are right about that. Though if you really want to get technical, IBM or at least the IBM Thinkpad people still make the Thinkpad as when the brand was sold to Lenovo, the employees also went along with it. That’s why Lenovo has two HQs, one in China and one in the US.

ah that was a mistake I made in the video. Sorry

@@ranimungcal does it say could not intialize opengl or soemthing like that? its the same for me I just tested it

@@dcfbf yes thats why i decided to install the other ubuntu base linux on my old thinkpads instead.by the way i used to archlinux before and on arch its playable too!

@@ranimungcal thanks I don’t really play dvd movies too much but if I do need to play movies on linux I’ll have that software in mind