How I spend less on used laptops.

this guy uses the shift key on the right of the keyboard, im scared of him.

I needed a laptop last year but didnt have much money, and after seeing your videos on thinkpads I decided to buy an older model and "repair" it. All it needed was a hardrive, ram, and a charger and its been a great machine! I liked it so much I started buying a few more thinkpads, slowly getting more comfortable with trickier repairs like screen replacements. I've had a lot of fun buying old/broken laptops and fixing them up! Honestly your videos talking about older thinkpads is what helped me get into this and I want to say thank you

Thinkpads are like the old Land Cruisers or Land Rovers of laptops, just when you thought they're dead, they came back roaring with just a little nudge. Can't say the same for other models.

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Just yesterday I literally found an old IBM ThinkPad 760EL in an abandoned building. I couldn't believe it. It was in a laptop bag but isn't in the best shape as was exposed to the weather, although not direct rain. Needless to say I rescued it. It was manufactured in 1996. This particular building is near to where I live and if I'd have known that laptop was there I'd have got it years ago when the building was first abandoned.

I used a x220 Thinkpad for 5 years in college while pursuing my Computer Science degree (2016-2021). Although I made it sure it was tested before purchasing, I only paid about $120 for it off of ebay and it never gave me troubles. The only repair I needed to make was a single broken USB port, and after about 2 years I upgraded the HDD to a Samsung SSD for better storage. Overall the computer was still less than $200 which is much better than the thousands my peers had spent, and I used it to complete all of my assignments when I wasn't at my desktop. Never regretted it for a second. While I don't use it as much anymore because I have a company-issued laptop for work, it's still running perfectly fine.

I'm out of a flock of 11 siblings. I have made myself the goto IT-person for my family and their friends and relatives. It only costs me a little of my spare time. This has given me about 15-20 free laptops over the last 10 years as they tend to give me their old laptops when they upgrade to new ones. My brother's mother-in-law not only gave me her old single core laptop some years ago when she "upgraded" to an iPad but she actually used to work in a phone factory and she gave me the solder station she worked with up until she retired. She bought it when the factory went belly-up. :) That is one way of getting computers. And yes I have gotten quite a few dual cores and core i3's and i5's that way as well. Teenage gamers tend to upgrade more often than others. P.S. They tend to use me because I'm cheap. I only charge them for coffee and parts. :)

I love your photos of the laptops in different nature settings.

This is exactly what I do. I have about 10 ThinkPad's. I got carried away and bought too many. I haven't had time to fix them all yet. You have to have discipline or else it can become an addiction. 😱😁

I picked up my T430 at a flea market for $25. The only flaw it had was the CMOS battery was dead, and I think the errors that was bringing up made them think the machine was damaged. Thus far the only thing I've had to do with it was install a new CMOS battery, and upgraded the memory. And, of course, wiping the disk (I automatically do that with any computers I get) and installing Linux.

Good video man. I've also been doing this for years! Some easy fixes and others like you said best used for some parts value. Had some great buys doing this and have had so many good laptops over the years from doing this. Keep it up man!

AS a ThinkPad lover?...I am all for keeping them out of landfills and huge piles of e-waste. If I can?..I buy them on eBay or other sites, fix em up?..and then give them away to family and friends as birthday gifts...I don't keep them anymore..as I have three T-420's a T-430, and X-1 Carbon (1st gen) and then I also have a Dell Latitude E-4300, a Dell XPS 15...and finally? a Huawei MateBook X Pro. All in the name of trying to keep some of these old electronics up and running! Plus?...its fun refurbishing and then installing Linux on 'em...

Great vid! This past year I've been getting more involved in camera and computer repairs, giving new life to old tech is so satisfying and addictive 😂

youre a real one, this videos inspired me to fix broken thkinpads these laptops are so easy to get inside all i needed was a phillips scredriver

Like your ideas. I've collected several over the years and some are basically for parts when the need arises. One old one works, but it needs alil work done to it again now that I had relocated and it may have been damaged along the way. Keep up the good work, my friend.

Very inspiring! Best video I've seen so far on this very topic.

hi, it's a great hobbie keeping alive all those thinkpads. I've done the same since my T400 presented problems and I'm learning a lot with your videos. thank you.

This is basically how I run my business. I buy used or broken laptops, fix them and sell them. I also love thinkpads. There's just something about them that keeps me hooked. I tend to find some people way undervalue items on ebay too, so tend to jump on these before anyone else can.

Wonderful tips, thank you so much for unveiling your process.

thanks very, very much! my computer's mother-board died few months ago, and this video really helped me understand what i can do to replace it.