Aw yes comfy old ThinkPad vid

8GB of DDR2 memory? My condolences for your wallet.

Earlier this year, I replaced my 2008 MacBook with an X201. I have to say, the difference between Intel's Core 2 chipset and the first gen i series is night and day for many basic tasks. Unless you're a collector, definitely don't look older than anything Core i for basic tasks.

We had ThinkPads as old or even older than this in a factory I worked at. Electronics department was still using them actively... For all those years I remember not a single dead pixel or dysfunctional key on them. Even their mouse knob things were good. I was blown away.

I was 10 in 2007, and I remembered being awed by modern laptops at the time and wondering how computers could ever get any more advanced

You should do a state of the collection video with your ThinkPads, older Macbooks, keyboards, and desktops! I think it is somethig that your audience will find interesting.

i know it aint 15 years old, but my t440p is STILL running strong until now, still uses it to do my daily work from home or out about, the only thing i ever did to the machine was upgraded it to the full HD panel and installed an SSD, other than its declining battery efficiency...it still runs like a champ. not to mention i have dropped it quite a few times through the years, man do i love thinkpads

I own several T61's because of this channel. Sebi's videos made me fall in love with the older style T61 and T400 laptops many many years ago. I still have them all in their original IBM Thinkpad travel cases and i break them out occasionally to cycle the batteries so they don't go dead. After this video, i fired up my T61 with the upgraded T9300 Core 2 Duo CPU and i noticed for the first time that watching videos even on my Linux distro(Linux Mint Mate) seemed to studder quite a bit. Acouple years ago i never had that problem. Today's internet is just get too intensive for these older machines. The only way i can more power is to upgrade to the Core 2 Duo Extreme as outlined in Sebi's video. Otherwise they basically will have very limited use going forward. It really makes me sad to see these older Thinkpad become obsolete. I grew up on them and i loved their many unique features. What do the new Thinkpad still have?? A spill resistant keyboard?? That's it. All the classic features are gone. Hot swappable batteries- gone. Classic keyboard-gone. indicator lights for activity-gone. Latch to hold the top cover down-gone. Upgradable components-gone. dedicated volume buttons-gone. Lenovo is doing away with everything that made their laptops unique. There's nothing left to distinguish them from other laptops anymore. I do own some modern Thinkpads but to use them is NOT satisfying at all even if they are fast. I hate them.

Watching on my T500 with 8GB ram. I will use it until it dies.

Great video as always! Liking some of the track shots and “glory shots” of the laptops

I love my ThinkPad T61s (I’ve three of them 😅) and they get regular usage. I upgraded the RAM to 8gb and run Ubuntu and a couple other Linux distros. Aside from regular www and word processor use, I mainly use it to program in Python and for emulation. Nothing graphically intensive. However, on my main T61, it can overheat, which is the one problem I typically have with them. Especially, ones that ship with Nvida graphics

My ThinkPad T430s is 10 years old now... it is still solid. I have loved the unit due to its ease to service and upgrade. It has an i7 3520M CPU with 8GB RAM. Upgrades came after six years of usage, replacing the HDD and Optical Drive for two SSDs: a 500GB for Windows 10 and 250GB for Ubuntu Linux.

Nice to see your channel back!

I'm glad you finally uploaded a video. Kind of my favorite KZfaqr out there...

Since you made me a Thinkpad fan like 2 years ago, I'm always looking for them on flee markets and picked up quite a few for very cheap. (T2x-T6x. Some X series models and even found a X60 tablet) If you are into Windows 9x/XP era retro gaming (like I do), old Thinkpads can be perfect. Sometimes I'm surprised by the screen some old models use. A few months ago, I've managed to get my hands on a R50p. I has a 15" 1600x1200 IPS display. Never seen icons this small in Windows XP before :)

I have a stock X200 that I still use to this day and it's perfect. I obviously don't do anything graphically intensive on it, but for programming, home network/server maintenance, and simply having a dedicated system for user security and privacy for business and travel I really don't need or want any other laptop. I run a Debian-based Linux distro so I have more control and resources and the only part I've had to replace after all these years was the cooling fan and thanks to the laptop's design it wasn't a difficult task despite having to remove essentially everything else to get to it. It's a shame IBM aren't still making computers because everything they made was the closest thing to perfection any manufacturer will ever get. The market would benefit from their simple but highly efficient and modular designs and rock solid hardware that's stood the test of time.

Loved the video, T61 is a beautiful machine. I personally bought myself a used T450 a few months ago and it's awesome! It's upgraded to 16GB of RAM and 500GB SSD, so it's running quite smoothly. The battery life is decent too, with light use i can get to around 4 hours with no problems. I would never think about getting a thinkpad if i hadn't watched an older video of yours, where you recommend an older thinkpad as a great budget laptop, so thank you very much!

Excellent video! One of the coolest ones I've seen in a long time! I forgot that IBM even still made their series of Thinkpads in 2006, as I thought that Lenovo had already occupied those by then.

I've been using an old Dell Latitude 6400 (2008 model) for longer than I can remember. I replaced the old drive with an SSD some time ago and have been using Lubuntu on it for maybe 8 years now. I mainly use it as a bed laptop to watch videos on and it's great so far.

Thank you for all the good advice. My inexpensive x220 is performing very well. Doing everything I want.

I love your content I'm glad your back. FYI Libreboot in 2023 is VERY important!

I recently discovered your channel and Im enjoying every single one of your videos :))

I've been waiting for a new vid. Awesome.

8:30 HAHAHA you fail to take into account the sheer power of STUBBORNNESS! I have been using a ThinkPad t43 from 2005 as my main laptop for nearly a year, and through many trials and tribulations I am able to maintain productivity! Nothing can stop me and my windows xp running, loud as hell, ThinkPad t43!

Talking about the retro gaming part, that is what I actually did with my old X60t. Lenovo luckily still keeps everything on their website and using my very first SSD with just 64G storage space is plenty for XP and pretty much all games I played back in the day, plus music and some tools if I so desire. If nothing goes, I do it like the old man who wrote Game of Thrones as typing on these older ThinkPads is a pleasure.

I've just spent most of the day on a Thinkpad x61 reading and replying emails, surfing the web to gather information, using whatsapp web to communicate with my banker across the globe, filling, printing and scanning forms, transferring funds, uplifting and placing fixed deposits at various banking websites, , organizing finances and keeping accounting notes on TreeDBNotes. Right now on my x61, I am reading and making web-clippings of the day's corporate news with an old version of Evernote (where web-clipping was possible without a paid subscription). In front of me over at the left side, I have a live telecast of a Italian Open tennis match playing on my Thinkpad x201 and over at the right side (also in front of me), I had your video playing on my Thinkpad x200 (which is still on a mechanical HDD). All my old machines have been converted to SSD except the x200. All machines are running Windows 10. Now who says old Thinkpads running Windows 10 are unusable in 2023? I have a fairly new Thinkpad L14 Gen 2 gathering dust at a corner.

2 vids in and im subbed. Great looking channel.

Amazing tutorial buddy!

Looking at that older Thinkpad, man I love the chassis. Timeless!

Glad to see you back Sebi! I love your videos! I have a Thinkpad T480 that is my dedicated TV machine and it runs amazing and was only 250 bucks :D

My previous workplace furnished me with an (at the time) 3-year-old refurbished T410. I didn't complain, the price was right, I was able to consolidate SEVERAL machines into it, and it was an absolute tank. The laptop had originally shipped with XP, and still had the XP license sticker on it. But during the refurb process, it gained a Windows 7 license for refurbished computers. Windows 7 was upgradeable to Windows 10, so once I got tired of fighting with Linux on it, you bet that's what I put on that laptop. I used it for about six years as a daily driver, and it was a champ. I gave it to my neighbor and he continues to use it to this day, though a driver issue prevented it from updating past 1909. So I think that T410 was the only machine I'll ever lay hands on that ran Windows XP AND Windows 10 perfectly. And yes I did try XP on it at one point. All the drivers are available from Lenovo still, and it ran flawlessly. Made a decent retro-XP-gaming machine with its Quadro GPU!

He is alive, thinkpads are back on top. Great vid.

Another Sebi video! So pumped.

I have a Dell Inspiron 9400 which I bought in 2006 still in perfect condition. It's got a Core Duo 32 bit processor running Windows 10 32 bit. I did upgrade it from a hard drive to a SATA SSD many years ago, and it has two USB 3.0 ports in a 54mm ExpressCard. It has GeForce Go 7800 graphics. It's got a 17" FHD screen. I've replaced the battery twice in 16 years.

Thank you for upload ♥️

I´m working in the upgrade of an old Dell D620 (2008), lovely device. Works fairly good with Linux and a mechanical hard drive. Not a gaming machine but usable for basic taks. Hopefully will work better with and SSD and a faster Core 2 Duo.

A new Sebi's Random Tech video! OMG! Finally!

I'm still using a T60 from time to time. It's running Windows 7 and is virtualizing xp for some old programs. It has the high capacity battyery and even the battery still works. The disk + ram was upgraded back in the days. One of the best computers I've ever owned.

Nice video! I'm still using my X200 with Linux Manjaro and I still use it weekly (mainly for JavaScript coding)! The keyboard is perfect on these older Lenovos.

nice video,very comfy indeed!~ i m using t400 now, it is the best machine i ever had. it even does funny beeping sound on startup. will try to max it out with quad core, ultrabay battery, 8gb ram and maybe 2nd wlan card. the only downside is that t400 is really a thicc boi, but still best budget thinkpad in my country. somehow x-type models became so pricy that you can buy two t-models for price of x one of the same generation :c

Very impressed with the performance of a 2007 laptop even if it's maxxed out. Think I'll go with an X201 as a linux entertainment center as these laptops look amazing and charmingly old. Might even get a trackpoint only palmrest lol. Depends on supply chain and the availability of different units. These older machines are disappearing... But as always thank you sebi this was one of my favorite videos you've made thus far. Takes me back to your old R series thinkpad video. It's so nice to have content about these amazing machines.

Still using my TP W520 - 2013 vintage. I used it as my primary laptop until about 2019. I upgraded it to a P51. The only issue I am running into is the keyboard, I worn dimples into the keys after using it for nearly a decade. Before that I had a T60 which I think I got in late 2005 or early 2006. I replaced it for a better processor that supported virtualization.

this is pretty much like the used x220 i bought around 5 or 6 years ago. it came with an i5 2540m, 200gig hdd, and 4gb ram. after a few additions, it is now running a new battery, win10, 6gb ram, 128gb msata ssd (decided to take out the extra hdd), and also replaced the screen once after it broke. the "right" key is now malfunctioning, and i might replace the keyboard later, but i just stopped pressing it, so not a real problem. as an extra portable pc, it has served me well. anything i don't really trust gets downloaded/opened on it. was my main when my actual main pc was getting upgraded for about a week, and a couple of months i was away from home. it also was a school laptop for a niece for some months when the pandemic started. it can emulate the retro systems and can run very old or indie pc games. and it can run everything on a browser just fine. while it doesn't get that much actual use, it has been useful throughout the years. i'm thinking about adding usb charging since with usb pd, it can now provide the required 95 watts, but for now, the x220 is still going and it seems it should be fine for such for another few years.

Awesome! I am also using t60, it is wonderful

Have a IBM laptop from 2004. Put AntiX 19 on it and was able to handle web surfing and basic tasks well. But thats mostly it.

My wife still uses a X61s from 2007 with a friggin 1.6GHz Core 2 duo LV as her only computer and she's still happy with it :) She thinks it's really cute. It's running Linux Mint Xfce on an old 128GB SSD and the performance really is surprisingly good for what it is. It's still a very usable machine for light internet browsing and office stuffs like printing, scanning and word processing. Only 480p KZfaq videos are perfectly smooth but the 12" 4:3 screen is so tiny that the lower resolution doesn't actually look too bad imho.

T61 were a very sought after thinkpad when released. They allowed a lot of multitasking

What a shock.....I got it since 2008 and still keep it till today Its working pretty well.

Cool video your views on a thinkpads are always great

Just bought one myself 2 months ago! Love thinkpads with all my heart

I love those LED status lights. I remember them back in 2010 era from my dad's work laptop.

would love to see a video on the Thinkpad Advanced Docking Station. I had one a few years back but never got much use out of it so it went to another home!

Your back!

these are good if you want to have an oldschool Unreal tournament lan party, HW like this is great for that!!

Still using an upgraded w530 and my backup is a sweet t530, I like the 15 inch thinkpads without the designated number pads, all the 2014's and up have them. As soon as I find out that the Frameworks laptop plays nice with Linux/Ubuntu I will have one of those, right now they still have hiccups. Might move on to the t480 cause I like the two battery system and will have decades left to mess with my favorite MX Linux. Missed seeing your videos, take care.

I have a t61 and t61p. One has windows Xp and the other has windows 7. I keep them around for old software, they have good windows 98 compatibility. I have a docking station with a gpu as well. Ive also got a t440p, a p71 and a yoga 390.

Ive gotta say for a 15 year old thinkpad its in pretty good condition you've looked after it 👍 nice video

I still use my T60 (Lenovo/IBM) as my daily driver. Only upgrade is a new battery and an SSD. It runs Manjaro (Linux). These things are built like tanks and last forever. For my use case it works like a charm. Even though I bought later era ThinkPads for other people, recognising that not everyone's use case (and patience) is the same. ;)

My X200 still working as the first day.

I'm still using ThinkPad Yoga S1 from 2013, mainly because it has a touchscreen and comes with a stylus. At one point I was considering to replace it since SSD upgrade didn't do it any good, but then I replaced cheap cacheless A-Data SSD with a beastly Samsung 860 Pro (top of the line SATA III drive on the market) and things got way better. I also installed Windows 11 and the laptop actually runs it better than my other not-so-old IdeaPad.

i love the thinkpads. they are great machines. i love my x240. beast of a machine.

For many years i have daily driven an T-60 and even used Win10 on it (even if the loading time were horrendous). I lately gave my T-60 a new life with WinXP for retro gaming.

Masterpiece !!!

Watching this on a Dell Latitude E5500, Core2Duo t9550, 4 gigs of ram, slow spinny HDD, and running Windows 11 is no problem for this machine. I can watch KZfaq with no buffering problems, this old thing has amazed me. Very solid old machine, and everything works, minus a Bluetooth driver that I'm not too worried about. I'd say your video is pretty well spot-on.

I had 1 of those back in 2010 used to play red alert 2

I don't expect more than a museum level experience in the T/X-60/61 pile I decided to buy/repair.

2009 Dell Inspiron 1545 here, maxed out to the C2D T9900, an SSD, a 1TB HDD in the optical drive slot, and an ExpressCard USB3 card in that slot. This is the model with the ATi dGPU, which helps some, and I run PCLinuxOS. This can go up to 900p streaming video just fine, which matches the screen it has. I'll hate it when this old laptop can't do the job anymore, but so far, so good.

Very high quality laptop

holy shit i found this vid through reddit, didn't know you posted there (though now that i think about it why did the thought never cross my mind lol)

I love old Thinkpads. T430 to me is the best option for most people. Plenty of room for upgrades (up to an i7-3840QM, 16GB of Ram, SSD upgrades both internal and via the hot swappable slot that stock has the DVD drive), display upgrade, can install the T420 keyboard and a whole world of options via the express port, including some GPU options. If you can find a model with the GPU then you are set. Put a good Linux distribution on there or even hackintosh it. Such a great little project PC) I have mine as a hackintosh but plan I switch it back to Linux now that I have a 2015 MacBook Pro. The thinkpad can’t run Ventura as of now, and I’ve replaced the utility I was getting from Mac OS, the ecosystem integration, so I should try to find some use for it, probably running my media. But that kicks the Mac Mini out of its job….so idk lol

Very comfy video indeed! I still have my t60 from 2006. For a while it was connected to an external mouse, keyboard, and monitor for my folks, so when they gave it back to me, the keyboard and screen is very well preserved. I since gave it t7200, maxed out to 3GB ram, and an SSD. With a lightweight Linux distro with a window manager, it plays 1080p KZfaq just fine. That's about the most taxing in my casual use case for this good old machine. I really like the 1400*1050 screen, so I may just throw gnome and KDE on it, just to enjoy the UI for a bit haha. Alternatively, get XP back on and install some retro games. Either way, it's going to be a comfy geeky project. Haha. Back to my point...good video as always, Sebi!

using old tech for YTers - super sweet epic video man , can it run Cyrsis???!?! using old tech for everyone else - just booting up their main pc to watch a few videos and get ready for bed

I started watching you for ThinkPad content

My cousin still has lenovo t400 which is used for web browsing, movies and school. Only upgrade i made with it was ssd drive :)

I had a toshiba laptop i used to play Need for Speed Underground 2 or Euro Truck Simulator 2. Ocasionally the screen would invert at random upside down... It was around 20010-2014 and still works nowdays 12 years later

I have a dell latitude e5500. I planned on doing the same thing as you and transplanting another motherboard into it to get more than 4gb of ram and a better cpu. Don't know what motherboard I could use but I'll find one eventually

My T61p Core 2 T9300 / Nvidia Quadro FX 570M / 8Gb / 15.4" Widescreen / W10 still in daily use here!

In my home, we have 2 X230 (1 for me and 1 for my wife), main workhorse, we do everything with them. I also have a T430 as my 2nd work PC. And my hobby laptop is my X201 running Kubuntu. Works just fine (for work, we stay on Win10)

The T60 is a really good laptop in my opinion. Even though I have a powerful desktop and a laptop I still actually find myself using it pretty often for writing and other lightweight tasks.

Diablo 2 keys for the quests, are actually keys for hardware locked in computers and laptops. By unlocking the chests, you unlock the batteries, the power saving functions. The cells heating up, need more keys in the game to enable them heating up equally. An inverter exists in the batteries, similar to the power banks. To enable all these, gameplay is needed on battery, finding the chests, and the laptop is set to power saving mode. Then, you can hibernate at 1%. To enable performance mode, discharge the battery in BIOS, reaching 47 minutes. Only each 11th discharge moves up the time in BIOS. The other discharges should be in Windows.

I got an used T61 with 4GB dual channel RAM and 250GB HDD, X3100 integrated graphics and Vista HB more than 10 years ago. I use it daily and rarely got problems with it. It is the most reliable laptop I've ever had. Sure it does get a bit hot nowadays ( but not that much up to 70C) on Windows 10 browsing the internet, watching youtube and such usual activities. Simply, I love this machine, and its unmatched keyboard, for typing this is godsent. It can run older games like Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, Far Cry 1, Doom3 even with its integrated graphics. Original battery lasts more than an hour browsing the internet, and 2 hours on standby. What can you ask more from this nice little friendly machine?

"Many newer games I tried to run just crashed on startup" *footage of trying to start Crash Bandicoot game* Surely this isn't a coincidence

I just restored my R61 of 2008. Installed Linux mint, upgraded the RAM from 2 GB to 4 GB, replaced the HDD as it was non responsive. I have not installed SSD and kept the original motherboard. Its works well for all basic tasks and even runs KZfaq well

I still use my early 2011 MacBook Pro. I use it as much as I use the M1 Mac Mini in my office. Still works great for everyday use which for me consists of web browsing, streaming, light word processing, FaceTime and discord. Granted, I've done some upgrades to it. I've replaced the HDD with a SSD, I also replaced the Bluetooth 2.0 chip for a 4.0 chip so that modern devices would be supported and upgraded the RAM from 4GB to 16GB. I believe the stock CPU is a 2.3Ghz Core i7.

My main PC broke this year (ASUS mobo blew up) and I needed a PC, so I grabbed my father's old ThinkPad R61 with a T8100, 3GB RAM and a 320GB HDD. Installed Manjaro Xfce onto it and voila, I had a PC to use :D Minecraft 1.19 w/ OptiFine with some shader patches ran at 100fps at 448x252 resolution, CS 1.6 ran at 100fps too, at 640x480 resolution. Honestly, I was pretty surprised about that kinda of performance on the Intel GMA X3100 graphics, pretty cool to see how these old thinkpads hold up nowadays xD

watching this vid from my t61p which works still good for me even in 2024 full hd youtube works with no problem, microsoft office is just perfect with that keyboard, some light 2010 era gaming also more than enough for me))

Older thinkpads are very useful for people who use mainly text based apps on linux without a desktop environment and running something like DWM. I have a much more modern T450 with an upgraded screen when i use a laptop outside of work but i still have my trusty x61s upgraded to the max with a new old stock US keyboard ( i am in the UK but prefer US layout). Honestly when not on chrome/firefox i cannot tell the difference and the x61s boots faster with the same custom arch linux + larbs install i have on it.

great video

Hey! so i have a t470 and it was a work pc and i am going to get a new ssd plug and play so i dont have to load any data just plug it in and go, no bios password, so, will that fix the computers work problems? thanks!

Every time I hear "Middleton BIOS", I imagine Kate sitting in Windsor castle, hacking away on an old ThinkPad while William is away at some posh event. 😅

This was a great watch. Old(er) hardware is so much more fun. I'm not running anything quite 15 years old, but I recently picked up 4 HP G2 systems. With shipping, 4 units set me back $120. Add another $120 for additional memory and storage (in addition to those sitting in a junk drawer), I had 3 new to me servers and a decent desktop (on which I'm typing this). It was so much fun tweaking the kernel to eke out as much performance as I could, tuning drivers for performance, and other configs to make it feel as good as a low-end modern PC. By this I mean that KZfaq plays at full screen, there's no lag when loading apps, and for day to days browsing and work in the terminal, it feels no different than the modern workstation in the next room. And maybe it even feels better. There's no buyer's remorse as I had with a recent Dell XPS 15 purchase and TBH it's like I stole it from the seller based on how useful it is to me.

I still use my 15 year old Sony Vaio FW for mostly CD and Blu ray ripping the built in disc drive on this were a luxury and quite a unit. With its Core2Duo 4 GB of RAM and ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3470. Its still doing fine I can even get it to run PPSSPP emulator and run certain PSP game like Daxter up to 3x resolution with FXAA on at mostly stable 30 fps. Not bad for an old timer still kicking and useful for my music and movie archiving purpose. I'd say it have better build quality than many of today's comparable work and entertainment laptop I mean the hinge doesn't creak or squeak at all after 15 years where my latest gaming laptop did a little right out of the box.

I had one of these around 2011, I thought they were old (and slow) back then!

I still use a 2008 Dell Insipiron laptop running Windows 7, I tried using Windows 10 but it slows a little bit the pc. Everyday tasks such as (Web browsing, microsoft office and media playback) are more than fine; however it is bulky and heavy, not that great carrying in a bag.

I personally think the last 10 years was a massive hardware plateau. my 10 year old 6700 in my desktop is perfectly capable of browsing the modern web and nearly everything you could want, including running cyberpunk, though I did get a 3050.

I had a T61 between 2010 and 2015. It was a "gift" rather, a discarded laptop from my sister's work place and it served me pretty well. i'm sure i would still have had it if it weren't stolen!

Bought a x230 7 days ago! Was feeling down as my dell latitude d620 had started to become unusable. So went onto ebay and took a look around. Bidded on a laptop and lost. Found the x230 and bidded and won! Did not know what I had gotten myself into as I wasn't familiar with the ThinkPad series! After buying it I read up on it as I only had a few minutes to bid when I stumbled upon it haha. I was delighted to find such good things about ThinkPads and the x230. I'm very much into technology. Programming, building pcs etc but I had never known much about the infamous ThinkPads! Anyways cut to the chase I received it 2 days ago and it's been a delight. Truly awesome. Light, powerful and good looking. Great for college. I mainly do programming and work so I don't need a super computer! I'm going to dual boot it with Linux so I have bought a 256GB msata SSD to put in the laptop so I can keep windows and Linux on separate drives. Anyways thanks a bunch! Binge watched nearly all of your videos over the past week :D

Sebi, I know it would be a lot to do but would you be willing to do a video where you showcase or talk about almost every think pad made after the 2005?

Have had 2 T420's which I no longer own simply because they couldn't run Da Vinci Resolve but I still have a T60 which runs XP and all of my legacy games, love these machines, I guess the only issue is that as they get older they smell a bit funny, but then... don't we all lol.

I currently use a T61 for everyday use - indeed it’s my main computer. I agree this isn’t worth it as a replacement but this laptop has bested a X220, T400, T410, T520, P1, and others. That 4x3 screen and that era’s keyboard are worth its limitations. Also some older programs like Office 2007 work just fine.