What was the last IBM ThinkPad?

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  @ModernClassic · 2 years ago (edited) · pinned

  Some of you caught my screwup between MB and GB about halfway through the video... yes, I misspoke (actually I miswrote the script and just read what I wrote). The X41T actually has one GB of RAM, not either four or one MB. I deal with so many computers that measure their RAM and storage in KB and MB, it&apos;s easy to mess that up once in a while.<br><br>I&apos;ll post any other corrections I need to here.

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  @nailhead59 · 2 years ago

  The Think Pad was the notepad given to employees starting before WW2 to encourage them to write their ideas down.

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  @einarjh · 2 years ago

  Can confirm that a guy with an IBM logo on his shirt came to fix my Lenovo ThinkPad just a few months ago, this was in Norway. I asked him about it and he said that they do that from time to time if they are free for it, but otherwise they send sub-contractors. Usually they serviced servers and mainframes.

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  @heavenlyblue · 1 year ago (edited)

  I worked for IBM ThinkPad Help Center from 1993-1998 - have very fond memories of this. I remember the technology was doubling about every 4 months, back then you could choose between a black and white screen, and a colored screen. The least expensive ThinkPad available was probably around $4,000, and most expensive around $6,000 I am guessing straight out of the box. I remember speaking to a caller and is ThinkPad shipped with 4MG memory - he asked me if he should add 4MG memory more to get 8MB, and I was thinking that was a lot of memory to have in a ThinkPad. HDD sizes were about 480MB when I started and there were much smaller ones before I started. It was a wild ride providing support for ThinkPads back then and I appreciate this now. Lots of good people working there at the time. We were called &quot;Mobiles&quot; back then in RTP, NC. When I started there were about 20 people on this project and I think our highest count was close to 200 employees. The jobs got farmed out to Ireland around 1997 I am guessing so were not many of us left at the time.

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  @AndyWilliams8 · 2 years ago

  I&apos;ve been a ThinkPad user since the 90s, and the bigger deliniation for me is the transition away from the 7 row keyboard. After that, the ThinkPad just didn&apos;t feel like a ThinkPad anymore.

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  @Russey124 · 1 year ago

  You COULD argue that T420s and X220s were the last IBM Thinkpads because on the next generation with T430s and X230s because they changed the keyboard to the modern one.

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  @martinjjnoagenda5536 · 1 year ago

  As an IT admin I always loved the IBM ThinkPad&apos;s. After upgrading I used to keep the old ones. I have three and they all still work. One with a small screen designed for W95 (from &apos;98 or so), one for NT2000 (remember that NT4.0 server transition from W98?) and an XP. I actually could work faster with the trackpoint than an external mouse. I still really hate trackpads. The fourth one was still a IBM design, but from Lenovo. It&apos;s a pity I didn&apos;t get to keep that one after finally losing the job. I&apos;m sure now many years later it would still have been a great device. Those harddrive shock saving features where always cool. I&apos;ve never seen that with other brands.

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  @gluttonousmaximus9048 · 2 years ago

  One of the simpler explanations in the expanding Lenovo ThinkPad range is this: X/T and higher are designed in Japan, L/lower are designed in China. Also, any large company tends to have a polynomial curve of expanding their laptop lineup and then shrinking them and then expanding them again, so it&apos;s always possible that the more economical ThinkBook line will eat up the lower ThinkPad line. (Owner of ThinkBook 14s Yoga and ThinkPad Yoga 260 by the way)

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  @SuneBäff · 1 year ago

  I got an X20, X31, X41T, X61s, X61T, &nbsp;X200T, X200s, X220T and the last one without the word Lenovo written on it is X31.

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  @JamesPotts · 2 years ago

  Actually... I&apos;m really happy to see a new Modern Classic video. Very well done and interesting, as always.

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  @youp1tralala · 2 years ago (edited)

  Thank you for this cool history retrospective of IBM and Lenovo. <br>One aspect that make ThinkPad special is indeed the on-site warranty (3 years by default in EU). I also saw it in action with my P72 bought in 2018 (and that I still use to this day, still a beast for what I need it for and in pristine condition) when one of the two fans stopped spinning (in that case the laptop still boots and work in a degraded mode where the remaining fan is spinning at full speed all the time). After opening a ticket online, Lenovo immediately shipped at home the cooling subsystem part (which includes both fans and the pipes) from China, then a technician came at home to make the replacement. I vaguely remember he told me he worked for IBM. He had been repairing ThinkPad (and other stuff) for 25 years and although he never disassembled a P72 yet (was more used to T480 and smaller models) he did the disassembly and reassembly in 25 mins or so, which is no small feat as the P72 had to be almost entirely disassembled with its many screws and connectors.

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  @thanhmcgriff3387 · 2 years ago

  Well researched. Informative. Thought-provoking. &nbsp;That’s what makes this channel great. Quality research producing quality content.

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