I am curious about those using T520 as their main machine. Reasons why, advantages, disadvantages, what you use it for etc.

Thanks

I am fashionably late to the party. I have dabbled and investigated many distro,s over the years. As of late, I have found Linux Mint Xfce a suitable fit for my needs and to maintain a snappy response. I use it on thinkpads from xx20 series to the T440p series and have found it suites my needs. Now ...

Well these may or may not qualify as old tech. I guess that depends on perspective. M93p tiny circa 2013- I used it most of 2019 as my desktop until my daughter needed a computer when her x201 gave up the ghost. I donated it to her and she is still using as her home pc. I replaced the tiny with an H...

Thank you both for the input. Sounds like I may just be better off Pulling the 120gb out and putting in a larger 2.5 ssd, and saving the 120gb for a different project.

mSATA SSDs are ridiculously expensive for their capacity, especially ones from good brands like Samsung or Transcennd. It's cheaper to get a 500GB 2.5" SSD rather than a 256GB mSATA. Amazon listing for a Samsung 850 EVO 250GB mSATA Transcend 256GB mSATA For comparison: Crucial MX500 500GB 2.5" SATA...

The Trackpoint and touchpad share the PS/2 mouse port, so any issue with one affects the other. If disabling either touchpad or trackpoint in the BIOS doesn't solve it, try disconnecting the touchpad cable. Make sure the charger is disconnected and the battery is removed beforehand. If the problem ...

If you are lucky, it's just the touchpad that's faulty. Try enabling the trackpoint and leaving the touchpad disabled. If that works, you can replace the touchpad (or just leave it disabled). If that doesn't work, then it's likely a trackpoint issue, and you need to replace the keyboard (as it's in...

I have a T520. I put a PNY 120gb ssd that I had laying around in the main drive bay and loaded it w/ linux mint 20 xfce. I intend to put a 250gb msata in the mini pcie slot for additional storage. There are many different brands, and with wide price variations. I am looking for opinions from people ...

I just acquired a T520 with no os loaded. Used linux on thumbdrive to test out machine. Left click on track button and touch button do nothing at all. Right click works as it should. When an external usb mouse is attached, left click did not work either. I disabled both the trackpad and touchpad in ...

Understood. Thank you for the reply, and info link

T430 2344-BZU with 1vyrain bios mod, linux mint 20 xfce Have been running this since Sept with no issues except the "Error Communicating to the TPM" during the boot process. Below is dmesg grep info regarding this. agent@X220:~$ dmesg | grep -i tpm [ 0.537747] tpm_tis 00:05: 1.2 TPM (device-id 0x0, ...

Thank you kindly for your response. information is noted.

Looking into possible causes, I discovered that the main reasons are the often uneven fitting and low mounting pressure of laptop heatsinks on the CPU. Do you know if there is a fix for the low mounting pressure of the heatsinks ? Could thin washers be used to keep the heatsink screws from bottomin...

I am late to the party, but, have successfully flashed the modified bios using 1vyrain on my T430. I did not need to downgrade first.(luckily). One question I have. Will it affect anything if I upgrade my CPU now that I have done this ? Excuse my ignorance, in hindsight I probably should have done t...

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Thu Jan 16, 2020 6:56 am

Eugor wrote: ↑

Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:52 pm

If you find that brighter screen that works for you for less than 300, I am curious to hear about it.

LP154WU1-TLB1 from LG
It's hard to get the Sharp panels nowadays...
You can try to hunt Dell D810 w/WUXGA - the panel sits in there

Many Thanks. I will see if I can find one.

I must say, I also love the Dreadnaught reference. Very apropos. I also have a Z61, but mine is the m class. Not quite the flagship that yours is, But I do enjoy using it nonetheless. With an ssd and running mint xfce, it is a comfortable workspace. If you find that brighter screen that works for yo...

Thank you. Sound like I should go safe side with 135w for both.

Is a 135w adapter required for T440p w/47W TDP i7 quad core, or will 90w work ?
Two units to be powered- One unit has iGPU, one has dGPU. Both with 47W TDP CPU and I am not sure how to figure the requirements.

I acquired a T61 that had no drive installed when I got it. I fired it up to bios and there was pop up This computer is equipped with computrace..... hitting ok allowed me to continue. I booted to Linux Mint 19.2 xfce that I have installed on 128 GB thumb drive and ran some operational checks. After...

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Thank you for this information. It is very helpful. I get a little confused on the internal ssd drives.

Will this drive work as a boot device in both the T430 and the T440P ?
Should it operate at spec speed ?
https://www.samsung.com/us/business/pro ... 0bw/#Specs

Thanks for any advice offered.

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Tue Jul 23, 2019 3:08 am

For the record, there is a very useful photo comparison of all the fan options at https://thiccpad.blogspot.com/2018/01/x ... urces.html (direct link to image).

Lots of great additional information as well. Thank You !

..... Hope this helps a bit @thelash, Thank you. This helps me tremendously. I am not a power user. just wanted to replace the noisy fan with the quietest option and try to keep the temps between 45-65C. Sounds like this one worked for you. much obliged for the link and this info. PS/Update/Edit fo...

...The dedicated graphics units with an extra heat pipe for the gpu fit fine into the Intel integrated gpu laptops - same gap in the roll cage so you get an extra heat pipe to dissipate heat. Thus, it doesn't matter which you buy for your igpu machines. I replaced a noisy toshiba igpu heatsink and ...

Ahhh. Well, It was a thought. Guess I will have to go a different route. Thanks for helping me see that

The mini PCIe adapter I was considering using is this one
https://www.newegg.com/p/17Z-00EK-008P0 ... -_-Product

Upfront, please excuse any of my ignorance. I figure there is a wealth of knowledgebles here that might share opinions about this. I want to upgrade the wireless in my T430 without having an exterior dongle. I am not ready/able yet to perform the bios mod for this model, and have not seen anyone off...