Lenovo
ThinkPad W530
Based on 19 Reddit mentions
CA$1,499.00
Canadian marketplace offer
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FreeBSD 666 Lenovo is ready (after 2 Adelholzner and Coffee)
Yes, without any issues with Laptop Thinkpad Lenovo w530 [smoki@freebsd15-lenovo ~]$ ifconfigem0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500options=4e524bb<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,JUMBO_MTU,VLAN_HWCSUM,LRO,WOL_MAGIC,VLAN_HWFILTER,VLAN_HWTSO,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6,HWSTATS,MEXTPG
...Majestic_Department7 in r/freebsd
July 12, 2026 at 6:33 p.m.
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Scored an X220 with a factory IPS screen!
I've said this a few times already, but it's such a tragedy that the T420/T430 were the only high-end ThinkPads of those generations to not be configurable with a decent display from the factory. The X220/X230 as you can see here, could be configured with a 1366x768 IPS display. The T420/T430 got ei
...Lovethecreeper in r/thinkpad
October 18, 2025 at 12:29 a.m.
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Replacement battery and IPS 1080P screen upgrade.
I can speak to the battery. I've had good luck on aliexpress with a 9 cell for my T430 (fits T420 also). When brand new I got 2.5 hours with medium use and just over 3 hours with light use. Not sure you can view the US link so I'll just paste in the exact description and the seller name and you can
...blackratsnakes in r/thinkpad
July 22, 2026 at 5:18 p.m.
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Good Aftermarket Battery Brand?
I've had great luck with the 9-cell I got not too long ago from aliexpress. It charges even with the battery whitelist intact which was what I needed. Using a quad CPU I get about 2.5 hours with medium use, just over 3 hours with light use. I'll include the link but it's a US link so not sure you'll
...blackratsnakes in r/thinkpad
June 21, 2026 at 12:41 a.m.
3
Rant about recent T-series defects
Well, I have a T14 Gen 3 AMD which has been serviced so much, every component except the screen has been swapped out by a Lenovo technician. It still does strange knocking noises when in sleep mode. So yeah, nothing remotely similar happened to my two older thinkpads (X1 Extreme Gen 2 and W530).
StrangeDonut6986 in r/thinkpad
July 30, 2026 at 9:45 p.m.
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Ladies and Gentleman - The freebsd Daemon is now 666
Hm, I decided to install it on my good old Lenovo w530 with 32gb… I think it should do it😀 battery is loading now… so I let him first reload if possible
Majestic_Department7 in r/freebsd
July 12, 2026 at 10:48 a.m.
2
Using a W530
if its free , use it. W530 would be a fun machine . I have 2 of the w520's and one is used daily for reddit and media consumption. The nvidia quadro card (if yours has it) is a pain to get straighten out , but have had luck with Manjaro and currently run MX Linux on it. I would also say while using
...nuclearragelinux in r/thinkpad
March 13, 2026 at 3:13 a.m.
2
Why do yall like thinkpad laptops
because a thinkpad is built like a tank -- it can withstand anything and everything that you throw at it. I have a W530 that I bought during the Black Friday sale of 2012 and it still runs Windows 10 like a brand new machine with all keys and touch pad functioning as it arrived on 2012. The only thi
...Magentific in r/thinkpad
September 10, 2025 at 2:39 a.m.
2
Intel AX210 wifi - regular disconnects
sorry for the late answer. No, it hasn't been solved yet unfortunately :( The funny thing is that this basically only occurs on my 7th gen and 8th gen laptops (using the original m.2 form factor with the genuine ax210 cards). However, i also run derivatives of this card on a number of mpcie laptops
...LimeNumerous3526 in r/laptops
May 27, 2026 at 8:54 p.m.
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coming to linux again
Who complies anything anymore? When I started using Linux back in the very early days, yes, you often had to build stuff. But unless you're using something like Arch or some little-used app someone hosted on github, you rarely, if ever need to download tarballs of code and run MAKE scripts anymore.
...joe_attaboy in r/linuxquestions
May 30, 2026 at 3:52 p.m.
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