Hey, I will be covering ThinkPad prices from the T20 to T14 Gen 4, & T16 Gen 3. Starting with the 13″ & 14″ IBM models, then switching to the 15″ models, and the 16″ replacements. The T Series is a great start, I was happy with my 14″ T61, it was a nice upgrade from the X61 Tablet.
Models not listed here will be the slim S suffix ultrabook-ish models, nor will I have any performance P or G types. They will have their own page category, or be bunched up with a workstation one.
Yeah it just fucking jumps up in high price. which is working, one low price unit boots to bios. Expect untested machines for mid or lower. EX+ seller linked.
If you want to deal with a Blink of Death system, then try it, some say replacing the ADF3421 chip will do. As always, if it turn on, buy it. T2x systems will get a hairline crack at the right of the keyboard bezel. Then you have RAM seating issues on the T30 and I think T23. Only going off memory not researching, Comment below if I’m wrong.
The four T30’s i have are dead, dunno why, I swore two were working but they stopped, I think one has an SXGA+ panel. On my T2x systems, I bought a lot of 4 machines, 3x of them T20, T21s, and one A20m. The latter worked, which I persued other A Series machines. The T2x machines were missing parts and well, they were parted out for a reason. 🙂 But they were only $60 in total and it was a learning expeirence for me on tinkering and openening up these systems.
3 auctions, everything else is BIN or best offer. Lmao. Most seem to be in ok shape, dont really see cracked screens, mid and up shoulld be with OS, some at low seem to boot to windows
One fuckin laptop sold with 16GB RAM, and like 7 sold with 12GB. expect 8GB of RAM, and yes some people bought units at high price with 8GB… not bothering to see if there was anything else juicy in that deal
T470
Might of did my calculations wrong? idk, you can get a lot of two or four systems for $200, depends on what you get or whats missing, seller linked.
T470 Skylake
EX+ is weird bc people are genuinely buying “Grade C” laptops in this price range. Might be due to more Windows 11 on the higher end. Awww TVRsales got rid of the cool TVR logo
T470 Kabylake
General search has over 50 listings so idk, maybe its a mixed lot so it doens’t show up. Linked seller is EX+ price range, but does offer a 1 year warranty via the description.
After looking at prices of theT490 and later models, IDK why these are so high in relative to them and previous T Series.
Edit, I was having an issue with search, where eBay “streamlined” the search results, to which it’ll remove them.
So basically my seach was capped at 160, so if you did lowest price first, it woudlnt show higher prices, because if you did highest price first, it would show something like 300 or 700 listings… so obv the calculation would be wrong!
T480 Libre/Coreboot
Newly added, listed seller has a few of these, suprisingly Librebooot doesn’t cost a hefty premium like T400 or X200 machines.
Paying more doesn’t guarantee itll come with an i7 or 16GB
BNIB EX+, lot units can go for about $100 per unit.
T490 Comet
Linked seller with low price unit, and has decent specs in description.
T495
High prijce seller linked, AMD still pricey
T14 G2 Intel
Listed seller kinda of have their store categories wrong, but it is fucking annoying updating every fucking category, so I give them a pass. Like, they have a lot of laptops in “all” but in specific laptop category they only have 4, common issue.