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title: "i bought a thinkpad"
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published: 2019-12-05
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there are reasons the older thinkpads are so popular among certain
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technology-enthusiast subcultures. in case you don't know about this "hype"
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(for lack of a better word) or know it exists but don't know the reasons for
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wanting one, here's a quick list off the top of my head:
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- **durable**
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- **cheap** ***if you buy at the right time***
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- **modular**
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- **easily reparable**
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- **easily upgradable**
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- **keyboard**
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- **trackpoint**
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- **decent specs**
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- **libreboot/coreboot compatibility**
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- **docks** ***(you can even buy a battery it docks into)***
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basically, they are laptops that were built to last a very long time and to be
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easily reparable and upgradable by the owner. and customisability is a natural
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byproduct of that, of course. i've wanted one for a long time but never saw
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any of the specific models i wanted at a price even close to what i'd heard other
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people had gotten theirs for. `[insert generic filler sentences where the
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punchline is the title of the blog post]`
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### from the listing:
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> **Lenovo ThinkPad X220 12.5” Laptop Core i5-2540M, 8 GB, 120gb SSD, IPS**
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> **panel, Dock + Extras. Condition is Used.**
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>
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> **Comes with**
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> **Laptop**
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> **2x 90w Lenovo chargers**
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>
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> **2x extended Lenovo batteries**
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>
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> **1x USB 3 card**
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> **1x Docking station**
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>
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> **The keyboard is amazing. The ssd card is in the MSATA which means the hard**
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> **drive bay is open to add another 2.5 inch hard disk for storage! `[…]`**
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there was no `buy it now` option so i had to bid on it. there was a little over
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a day before the auction ended when i happened across it.
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### so what did it cost you?
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that's the question i'd be asking if i were reading this instead of writing it,
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because of my limited budget. it ended up costing, in <b style="color: lightblue; background-color: red">u</b><b style="color: red; background-color: white">s</b><b style="color: white; background-color: blue">d</b>, roughly `$130` **+** `$25` *shipping* **=** <mark style="font-weight: bold">~$155</mark> in total.
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i will be blogging about my impressions of the actual laptop some time after it
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arrives (`eta: 12 december 2019`). i am kind of hoping to actually write *that*
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blog post on the thinkpad itself, so it may take some time before i have
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everything configured on there. i may even be able to get two blog entries
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(excluding this one) out of this. one about the laptop itself, and one about
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installing the os and such.
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## とにかく
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i'm trying to keep these short enough so that you don't get bored. but, i do
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have tendencies to ramble quite a bit. having a blog is a way to post my
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ramblings on the internet in case anyone finds something in them interesting.
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if they are too long they probably aren't formatted well and walls of text
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isn't something i think many people find very interesting.
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> on that note
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i am going to make an optimistic prediction: that **my next post will be
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written soon** <mark>※ this is the optimistic part</mark> and **its
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topic will be something anime related**. but until then, my nectarous
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readers:
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**stay tasty o/**
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