>>9771the whole motherboard IS the computer
other than the screen and keyboard, maybe chassis
but you can replace those anyway, even on modern fagbooks
i'd be surprised if you couldnt do that, but somehow i wouldnt be surprised if crapple implemented hardware DRM that breaks the whole thing once you open it up, or just glued the shit together entirely
>that argument is the most retardedokay have another one, proprietary scammy overpriced chinkshit plastic without any I/O, hundreds of backdoors, and no support for older (and just-werks) hardware like VGA, SATA, an ultrabay, etc..
instead you get meme dongle-like USB C (C stands for Cancer btw) modules and shitty GPU backpacks because hey, lets replace the entire slice battery you can normally replace on a sane laptop with a shitty GPU module you probably cant even hot swap
>eventually theyll stop workingthey dont degrade if theyre not used, and its piss easy to repair them, and get replacement parts
i have like 30 thinkpads floating around in my house, most of them will outlive me and last for my kids, my kids kids, and their kids.
>IBM will never get back into PC making businessthey are still in it though, theyre currently working on POWER9, hopefully i will be able to buy a powerful and not overpriced freetard workstation sooner or later, because having 128 CPU cores and 64 gigs of ram is nice
>not powerfulpowerful enough for anything i do, including playing my video games like hl1 or other goldsrc games using xash3d, gta3 with re3, doom with crispy-doom, dreamcast games with flycast, n64 games with mupen64, etc etc...
of course theres stuff like minetest and 0ad, also fun
>browsers and web 3.0aka proprietary bloat bullshit nobody needs, i reject that bullshit anyway, so having a computer that is physically unable to render that webgl garbage is a very based thing
>wah wah only 2 choicestheres POWER9 and RISC-V doe, the only reason why they arent adopting them is muh shekels and muh gintele x86 bullshit for muh hecking winkike compatibility
boomers fear anything non-x86
>do your hecking research!!GNo, i just guessed because people told me theyre in the fagbook price range, i don't waste time with websites that require proprietary js and webgl to even load and show me the prices.
>muh aloominoom*aluminium
and lmao that shit is so soft, itll bend and break if i sit on it
my thinkpads are made from a magnesium alloy
>no soldered ramthat surprises me
>no soldered ssdalso surprises me but what about BIOS chips?
are they socketed at least or are they still cucking you with that?
the firmware is still proprietary "open sores" bullshit, so its not an option for me anyway, and will never be one unless they make a POWER9/RISC-V model with 100% (i mean 100%, not "99.9%") free firmware, ideally releasing all the hardware schematics as well because i DO have all my thinkpad schematics laying around for repairs.
>every single port ever made built into itthats a good thing
>low res screenalso a good thing, but 1600x1200 or 1280x800 isnt exactly "low res", especially for the tiny 30cm diagonal screen size on a 8:5 display.
>think clitthats a good thing, fuck touchpads
i absolutely despise touchpads, i never use them, they only get in my way, on the thinkpads i DO have a touchpad on i just disable it, so you might as well leave it out entirely and give me a smooth comfier palm rest with less weight added to it.
this also means less shit connected, more battery life, less input devices being polled, etc...
or actually ill take that back, trackpoints and thinkpad keyboards are PS/2 so touchpads are most likely too
>you can run any OS you wantcan it run TempleOS?
can it run GNU with a deblobbed kernel and zero proprietary garbage?
that means full hardware acceleration and all that
if you can't meet those requirements, shove your overpriced hot defective garbage up your ass, especially if you can't meet them for less than 100$.
>as thick as a phonebookthats a good thing, imagine wanting a thin piece of plastic trash that bends and cracks when you put it into your backpack the wrong way or drop it
a fat laptop saves space, is sturdier, has more space to fit a big fan and heatsinks, and has more space for a better non-chiclet-cancer keyboard
if thinkpads were thicker you could even cut out a model m and tape it in there, i wanted to do that at some point but the middle of a model m is like 2mm too long, i'd have to shave off the keys or some shit, or have overstanding keycaps on the sides which would look like shit.
the bend on a model m will also be problematic, the plates have different sizes because they are bent and lay on top of each other, i will need new screwholes and a new plastic switch-grid for that.
>modularyeah, if you wanna pay 50$ for a hecking dongle or something like that, it all runs over USB anyway and thats sheer mental illness
YOU PLUG A MONITOR INTO A VGA PORT CONNECTED TO YOUR GPU
NOT INTO A USB TO VGA ADAPTER CONNECTED TO A USB CONTROLLER HOLY SHIT ARE YOU RETARDED OR SOMETHING?
does it even have a CD drive/bay?
can you even hotswap the battery?
LOL
>heh, for people who actually traveli dunno but i rather have a tiny X200 thats literally impossible to break in my pocket than some slim huge shitty fragile piece of plastic that will break because of its size and thickness (thinness) if you put it between literally anything
also, it costs 2000$, so GTFO with your crapple clone trash.
>but how does it clone crappleoverpriced, thin, modern, hot steaming pile of glorified poop, everything being proprietary, you being unable to run anything other than winkike and proprietary (((approved))) lunix on it, and so on
>i miss pointing sticksnothing is preventing you from buying a 100$ thinkpad on ebay and librebooting it
>blame da jooz, its da politicsi blame the CIA niggers and israeli chip manufacturers, but no matter who is responsible for it, i do not, have never, and will never tolerate backdoors of any kind in my computers, no matter who caused them, controls them, made them, etc...
even if this means sticking to 50 year old thinkpads in 30 years, so be it, my freedom is more important than hecking modern features and crappy modern plastic hardware you have to pay 2000$ for.
i can terrorize, kidnap, rape, murder, etc... anyone i want, and there is nothing you can do about it.
if they wanted to catch hecking terrorists they wouldnt mandate backdoors in hardware because "THE BAD GUYS Ö" will just use old computers, the only ones who are realistically getting backdoored are nigger cattle normies who dont know better.
its the same thing as trying to ban encryption.