I too have a thing for thinkpads myself, especially the ones made when they were an IBM product. they are super rugged, chances are no matter where it been kept, if its been kept dry and was treated well when it was being used and is intact chances are it will work. Owned several in the early 2000s they were easy to matinence, and as I said above extremely well built and thought out, other than the panasonic toughbooks were the proverbial tanks of the laptop world. Even used a few in the rain they handled it like it was just another day. Owned a 300x, a T30 a, T45, among others, all upgraded and used as everyday machines for general protable use, also used them at work to surf the web and watch even watch DVDs on lunchbreak.
being able to carry heavy laptops on my back is what I go to gym for, these lovely rectangles don't hate me and in return i take care of them, plus, I can legally have multiple and carry them all on my back simultaneously
Oh my goodness- one of my biological relatives had a MASSIVE laptop in the early 90s. The screen wasn't in color though- it was a monochrome palette, similar to the one of the original Game Boy. No idea if it was an IBM laptop or not... I would have been too little to understand branding, and I only saw the laptop once. I just remember it was MASSIVE, and I learned how to play Tetris for the first time on it... and very quickly! 😊 Google translate didn't help me AT ALL with the translation of that word document shown in this video btw! LOL
Could’ve been a Compaq SLT or something. Very hard to come across these days, but yeah, computers like that could just barely play simple CGA games. The thing that I laughed about was like a simple sentence in Wordpad, it said something like: “Mom, here I am listening to Mate Bulić” (who is a famous Croatian folk singer), and it made me laugh 😂
@schvabek Lol, oh ok- I did get that far with the translation but didn't know it was a person/folk singer... thought the end of it was "un-translated words" that Google couldn't even figure out LMAO!
The cheaper Thinkpads i.e. 300 series and the Rxx models had the hard plastic shell that was easy to clean, but the more expensive 600/700 and later T and X models had the soft touch shell that was way harder to clean.
I use to work in the IBM call-center that provided customer support for ThinkPad computers - was there from 1993 to 1998, so a ThinkPad 380 must have come out after I left. The previous ThinkPads were much smaller physically than this 380 is - not sure why it would have been so big like yours is.
I was in middle school in the early 2010s and my main computer was a Dell C600 running Win 2000, while my school had win 7 and it was definitely an interesting experience... But I think that is a big reason I like collecting computers today (I still have the laptop, but its begun to die and I have yet to fix it)
That`s a pretty modern unit. I still have a pair of (non-functional - so far) IBM CL57SX in the basement. Plus one external "Communication Cartridge". These are bad, bulky, heavy, slow and have bad screens ... Thanks for sharing !
People have different tastes, I recently picked up a IBM T42 Thinkpad. Thinkpads have always interested me over Macs for the fact that you could swap in and upgrade or hell downgrade the Thinkpads based on your use case. The one I picked up I found out is Win 98 2nd edition compatible and Windows XP. It came out as one of the last models IBM made before Lenovo took over. I want too start collecting certain ones, I collect computers that I remember from my childhood or ones I saw but of course could not afford as a child. I plan on eventually picking up certain Alienware Laptops but mainly now I'm focusing on Blu Ray Drives for PCs, GPUs & RAM.
Product has wonderful features that are a must have, most of it are built in such as the Operating system that comes along with the product for every purchase, specially the Windows O.S, some software and Hardware features are as reconcilable for the brand's P4 models processor. This is a must have for quality and features, while weight management is another feature that is a plus for the unit.. Tierage exception applies for the unit as well. Reason:Parts, Unit, and compo nents that are included are to be maintained and is/are protected by manufacturers warranty. See further instructions at the box included.******
Win9x passwords can't protect anything that can be physically accessed. It only works with FAT-Filesystem. Just hold ctrl at boot and undo whatever protection is in place under DOS. The password prompt was only useful for network shares and logon scripts. I guess if a PCMCIA network card was installed, it would have shown the other dialogue to log on to a domain or workgroup.
Exactly. That login screen is mostly only for network logon to a WinNT or Netware network (Some network clients like VINES replace it by their own login library, with a bit different dialog). Later Windows 98SE and Windows ME offered a rudimentary support for user profiles, but it mostly was for customizations of the different "family members" using the same machine, and it would not protect the documents or configurations at all , as the registry database was not encrypted and there was no provisions for FS encryption (yes, if for you the FS access list isn't enough, Windows NT, 2000, XP, 7, etc would offer you to encrypt your files in NTFS drives, which would not be decoded if you dared to reset the SAM database, but people wouldn't use it by fear to lost their data in case of losing the passwords or corruption in the SAM database).
Funnily enough I still consider a 3,5 kg laptop a middle weight, Back in college my friend used to lug an Alienware M18x, that monster weight almost 12 pounds, modern gaming laptop weight less than 5 pounds
@@schvabek Yes, an 18 inch dual VGA battlestation, i know it's incomparable with 12 inch Thiccpad from 90s i just pointing out that when buying for laptop i always choose a 3kg range for decades even though now a 3kg laptop is excessively heavy
@schvabek Lol, yes😅. I am more worried about compatibility-is there an inexpensive way to turn those laptops into a nexdock like thing? Like a board that would sit between the LCD screen, being an LVDS controller that could take input from hdmi and USB and route it to the screen and keyboard/touch pad?
@ I don’t know, but I don’t really think this is a good candidate for that, as the screen on it is pretty awful. Perhaps something with a TFT panel, but those are also showing their age at this point and are not very good.
My T 530 cost me nothing. All I need is a replacement keyboard. I have only put maybe $30.00 into it. An Ultrabay adapter with a 1TB HDD for my storage needs and $15 for a 128 GB SSD as a boot drive.
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my t530 don't like something stacked above it. It's lcd almost died when I placed a criminology book on it. maybe they are not made like they used to 🤧
fun fact: all new Thinkpads are designed by the same people that have designed even the Thinkpad of this video because Lenovo didn't buy only the trademark, but all the parts of IBM that made computers for the consumer market, so actually all Lenovo Thinkpads can be considered IBM Thinkpads
Atleast it has a dvd and ethernet unlike my new lenove laptop thats literally same as every lenovo like for gods sake change the design lenovo its been same for 5 years
idk man, if 3,5kg breaks your back, you should prolly go outside a bit at all, cuz when i was 8, i remember the books we carried to school alongside everything else, was 14kg in total
@@bluein_ no, i more just want the claims that got us in this mess of a laptop era that is today to stop. Like obv it doesn't break your back. But claims like that, is why laptop manufactuers stopped focusing on quality, and went for "sleek and sexy" instead and i'm tired of people telling me 2kg is Way too much for a Computer
@@skorpysk The ideal is somewhere in between your opinion and mine. My Tab S8 Ultra and Thinkpad T480 can both help me develop my game and work my job. And yet one of them is 700g, and the other is 1.5kg. The reality is that, not everyone has your use case. I work on-field in esports, which means I have to walk from area to area with my backpack and laptop alongside a bunch of tools for general IT maintenance. In an environment like that, the less you have to carry, the better. I generally end up pretty tired lugging that thing around all day. It keeps you wishing you had a lighter device, especially when you know they exist. As for why not use a newer machine? The IO. It's so severely lacking in newer machines that I have to lug dongles around. Is it lighter? sure. Is it convenient? No. This is why we should support projects such as the Framework. It's heavier than price matched "premium" laptops, and yet the flexibility makes it so much better.
@@bluein_ for my job i also carry around heavy equipment, but the laptop i have (T440p), is the least of the weight, so much so, that the difference of it being there and it not, the 2kgs are practically unnoticable. Even when i still went to college, it being there or not was like not that noticable. I don't work in IT tho, so maybe the pack difference is enough, where you are just not used to it i guess? idk. If it was a handbag, i would notice for sure, but the backpack? nah.
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something i learned from Ebay; slap "rare" or "vintage" on something and people will just pay nearly whatever you want for it.
I would slap on "rare" or "vintage" on my Acer Veriton when I'll be selling it
It’s crazy, because old IBMs in particular are something that I thought would never be collectible
Thinkpads are collectible, someone paid me nearly 600€ for a t23 😁
people keep selling iBook g3s for over 150 bucks >=[
ThinkPad IBM -> Великолепный дизайн!
That’s not a notebook that’s an encyclopedia😭
That thinkpad is in insanely good condition! Usually old thinkpads are in really cruddy condition and covered in melting rubber.
I don’t think this one has that “rubbery” coating, so it looks pretty good. The newer Lenovo ones already look and feel tacky.
im loving the thumbnail., this channel is going through the roof in quality, just wait for the subs to start rolling in
I too have a thing for thinkpads myself, especially the ones made when they were an IBM product.
they are super rugged, chances are no matter where it been kept, if its been kept dry and was treated well when it was being used and is intact chances are it will work.
Owned several in the early 2000s they were easy to matinence, and as I said above extremely well built and thought out, other than the panasonic toughbooks were the proverbial tanks of the laptop world.
Even used a few in the rain they handled it like it was just another day.
Owned a 300x, a T30 a, T45, among others, all upgraded and used as everyday machines for general protable use, also used them at work to surf the web and watch even watch DVDs on lunchbreak.
My friend got a 380ED recently for $10 at a thrift store. He has maxed out the RAM (96MB IIRC). They sell a new battery for this ThinkPad, like $65
That’s awesome. Yeah, I won’t be buying a new battery, just don’t need it.
at 8:02, i read "Mama" and i thought "is this a yo mama joke?"
“Mom here I am listening to Mate Bulić” 🤔
being able to carry heavy laptops on my back is what I go to gym for, these lovely rectangles don't hate me and in return i take care of them, plus, I can legally have multiple and carry them all on my back simultaneously
wow i have a similar hobby of collecting old / retro computers and my whole family wants me to get rid of it
These things are so badass, it’s a cheaper hobby than collecting cars or something. They just don’t get what makes these special
Start a RUclips channel, so that you can justify it 😂 that’s pretty much what I did lol
thinkpad with a bbl
Imagine having a password for security just for someone to click the esc button
I remember seeing these in middle school being used by IT People, and always wondered “why is it so big”
That laptop looks like my first laptop but a few centimeters thinner
The start-up straight up said "ps1"
5:02
Looking at it is making me have an "idea". What if we make a modern laptop as thick as a ThinkPad?
@@angushughes5371 you could probably fit a 4090 in the case the size of that.
Oh my goodness- one of my biological relatives had a MASSIVE laptop in the early 90s. The screen wasn't in color though- it was a monochrome palette, similar to the one of the original Game Boy. No idea if it was an IBM laptop or not... I would have been too little to understand branding, and I only saw the laptop once. I just remember it was MASSIVE, and I learned how to play Tetris for the first time on it... and very quickly! 😊
Google translate didn't help me AT ALL with the translation of that word document shown in this video btw! LOL
Could’ve been a Compaq SLT or something. Very hard to come across these days, but yeah, computers like that could just barely play simple CGA games.
The thing that I laughed about was like a simple sentence in Wordpad, it said something like: “Mom, here I am listening to Mate Bulić” (who is a famous Croatian folk singer), and it made me laugh 😂
@schvabek Lol, oh ok- I did get that far with the translation but didn't know it was a person/folk singer... thought the end of it was "un-translated words" that Google couldn't even figure out LMAO!
The cheaper Thinkpads i.e. 300 series and the Rxx models had the hard plastic shell that was easy to clean, but the more expensive 600/700 and later T and X models had the soft touch shell that was way harder to clean.
I use to work in the IBM call-center that provided customer support for ThinkPad computers - was there from 1993 to 1998, so a ThinkPad 380 must have come out after I left. The previous ThinkPads were much smaller physically than this 380 is - not sure why it would have been so big like yours is.
I was in middle school in the early 2010s and my main computer was a Dell C600 running Win 2000, while my school had win 7
and it was definitely an interesting experience...
But I think that is a big reason I like collecting computers today
(I still have the laptop, but its begun to die and I have yet to fix it)
Honestly, I miss thick plastic laptops.
I used to own one of those vintage IBM thinkpads and they were very heavy!
I have a ThinkPad 390E and while slightly newer, it's still a massive laptop
That`s a pretty modern unit. I still have a pair of (non-functional - so far) IBM CL57SX in the basement. Plus one external "Communication Cartridge". These are bad, bulky, heavy, slow and have bad screens ... Thanks for sharing !
People have different tastes, I recently picked up a IBM T42 Thinkpad. Thinkpads have always interested me over Macs for the fact that you could swap in and upgrade or hell downgrade the Thinkpads based on your use case. The one I picked up I found out is Win 98 2nd edition compatible and Windows XP. It came out as one of the last models IBM made before Lenovo took over. I want too start collecting certain ones, I collect computers that I remember from my childhood or ones I saw but of course could not afford as a child. I plan on eventually picking up certain Alienware Laptops but mainly now I'm focusing on Blu Ray Drives for PCs, GPUs & RAM.
I really like videos like this. Those older CD drives sound that way.
But yes those drives are known for being very picky with the discs it reads. And it did sound like it was going. Thanks for the vids man!
Product has wonderful features that are a must have, most of it are built in such as the Operating system that comes along with the product for every purchase, specially the Windows O.S, some software and Hardware features are as reconcilable for the brand's P4 models processor. This is a must have for quality and features, while weight management is another feature that is a plus for the unit.. Tierage exception applies for the unit as well. Reason:Parts, Unit, and compo nents that are included are to be maintained and is/are protected by manufacturers warranty. See further instructions at the box included.******
thanks Billy Crystal for the narration.
I'm looking at my ibm thinkpad t42 eight now. Second owner. Still has the original plastics on the wifi icons
Had a old dell latitude that I used for school work
I called it the "Tank Computer"
not much of a tank compared to these things tho
Eugh that passive passive tft. I remember this beast from grade 9
Win9x passwords can't protect anything that can be physically accessed. It only works with FAT-Filesystem. Just hold ctrl at boot and undo whatever protection is in place under DOS. The password prompt was only useful for network shares and logon scripts. I guess if a PCMCIA network card was installed, it would have shown the other dialogue to log on to a domain or workgroup.
Exactly. That login screen is mostly only for network logon to a WinNT or Netware network (Some network clients like VINES replace it by their own login library, with a bit different dialog).
Later Windows 98SE and Windows ME offered a rudimentary support for user profiles, but it mostly was for customizations of the different "family members" using the same machine, and it would not protect the documents or configurations at all , as the registry database was not encrypted and there was no provisions for FS encryption (yes, if for you the FS access list isn't enough, Windows NT, 2000, XP, 7, etc would offer you to encrypt your files in NTFS drives, which would not be decoded if you dared to reset the SAM database, but people wouldn't use it by fear to lost their data in case of losing the passwords or corruption in the SAM database).
The anti macbook 😆
Funnily enough I still consider a 3,5 kg laptop a middle weight, Back in college my friend used to lug an Alienware M18x, that monster weight almost 12 pounds, modern gaming laptop weight less than 5 pounds
But this is a 12” laptop. That one was probably quite a bit larger.
@@schvabek Yes, an 18 inch dual VGA battlestation, i know it's incomparable with 12 inch Thiccpad from 90s i just pointing out that when buying for laptop i always choose a 3kg range for decades even though now a 3kg laptop is excessively heavy
7:53 I did not expect that lmao
what does it say
@@jpedrothejo "Mama here I am listening to Mate Bulić"
At 7:54 if you play the laughing at 2x speed, it sounds really concerning. Great video.
5:01 pressing “Cancel” also works
16:22 i didnt know i was watching kermit the frog
Great video!
5:57 ❤❤
Vidi metra, ovaj je nas.
Pevec 😂
Compare the thick pad with the 12” MacBook
that thing is super cool
i have a few of these thickpads :3
some of my favorite laptops!!
Someone please find a afforable way to fit a mini PC or Raspberry Pi5 in that Thickpad! In the ones that have a dead motherboard.
You could probably fit it in the battery cover lol
@schvabek Lol, yes😅. I am more worried about compatibility-is there an inexpensive way to turn those laptops into a nexdock like thing? Like a board that would sit between the LCD screen, being an LVDS controller that could take input from hdmi and USB and route it to the screen and keyboard/touch pad?
@ I don’t know, but I don’t really think this is a good candidate for that, as the screen on it is pretty awful. Perhaps something with a TFT panel, but those are also showing their age at this point and are not very good.
@@schvabek Maybe Frankenstein it with some recently dead laptop - recent ones woll not have enough good space for a mini pc or RPi
*insert obligatory "You should put Linux on it" comment here*
7:57 lol
It really is huge than my ASUS Laptop.
That aint laptop that is backtop
My T 530 cost me nothing. All I need is a replacement keyboard. I have only put maybe $30.00 into it. An Ultrabay adapter with a 1TB HDD for my storage needs and $15 for a 128 GB SSD as a boot drive.
thiccpad
I have an old fat IBM ThinkPad and it gives an error and screams at me
What’s the error?
@SchoolforHackers i have to boot it up again to see
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my t530 don't like something stacked above it. It's lcd almost died when I placed a criminology book on it. maybe they are not made like they used to 🤧
Never had anything like that happen, but I never store them like that, they are always stacked like books on a shelf.
Weird, I stack like 4-6 laptops on my W520 (which should have the same chassis), sometimes even some books on top of it and it still goes strong
Very nice. I like it!
3.5KG iirc but that way far from broke anyone back
At those years that could broke many peoples bank before broke the back 😂
how many macs you have
A lot
2:28 pause
IBM thinkpad > Lenovo Thinkpad
fun fact: all new Thinkpads are designed by the same people that have designed even the Thinkpad of this video because Lenovo didn't buy only the trademark, but all the parts of IBM that made computers for the consumer market, so actually all Lenovo Thinkpads can be considered IBM Thinkpads
Bought 380xd few months ago, for 2.5$ 😂
THICC
It’s so horribly massive and thick yet I want my own one
Edit these prices are insane lol
People really do pay big to get the biggest
I like bigger laptops too
Atleast it has a dvd and ethernet unlike my new lenove laptop thats literally same as every lenovo like for gods sake change the design lenovo its been same for 5 years
PAUSE!
0:23
Install windows xp/vista/7/8.1 please
Nope, doesn’t meet the requirements as it is. And why would I do that? You’d lose the DOS compatibility and it would probably run like crap.
guys im early! i love this guy !!
59:59
А ты конечно хорош.
50:00
good to see serbians here
59:60
idk man, if 3,5kg breaks your back, you should prolly go outside a bit at all, cuz when i was 8, i remember the books we carried to school alongside everything else, was 14kg in total
do u want a medal
@@bluein_ no, i more just want the claims that got us in this mess of a laptop era that is today
to stop. Like obv it doesn't break your back. But claims like that, is why laptop manufactuers stopped focusing on quality, and went for "sleek and sexy" instead
and i'm tired of people telling me 2kg is Way too much for a Computer
@@skorpysk The ideal is somewhere in between your opinion and mine. My Tab S8 Ultra and Thinkpad T480 can both help me develop my game and work my job. And yet one of them is 700g, and the other is 1.5kg.
The reality is that, not everyone has your use case. I work on-field in esports, which means I have to walk from area to area with my backpack and laptop alongside a bunch of tools for general IT maintenance. In an environment like that, the less you have to carry, the better. I generally end up pretty tired lugging that thing around all day. It keeps you wishing you had a lighter device, especially when you know they exist.
As for why not use a newer machine? The IO. It's so severely lacking in newer machines that I have to lug dongles around. Is it lighter? sure. Is it convenient? No.
This is why we should support projects such as the Framework. It's heavier than price matched "premium" laptops, and yet the flexibility makes it so much better.
@@bluein_ for my job i also carry around heavy equipment, but the laptop i have (T440p), is the least of the weight, so much so, that the difference of it being there and it not, the 2kgs are practically unnoticable.
Even when i still went to college, it being there or not was like not that noticable.
I don't work in IT tho, so maybe the pack difference is enough, where you are just not used to it i guess? idk.
If it was a handbag, i would notice for sure, but the backpack? nah.
these vegan millenials cant handle a 15 pound laptop. back in my day i used to carry 2 of them to work and back.
Cool! Now install Linux