Open ruebenramirez opened 8 years ago
So I picked up a lenovo thinkpad x220 which is a beast of a machine. It's awesome for heavy work, but it's not the most portable machine.
I've absolutely fallen in love with these older thinkpad keyboards and the ability to replace and/or upgrade all parts of these machines.
An x220 would be a more portable machine with the same awesome keyboard. One problem though: the screen resolution is horrible: 1366x768.
It does look like someone hardware hacked a 12.5" 1080p screen from an older dell xps machine into the x220 though:
reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/2pkp9k/can_i_upgrade_the_panel_in_a_dying_but_awesome/cmxnxg2 forum post: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?p=722162#p722162 project photo gallery: http://imgur.com/a/VIeM3
can pick up one of these screens for ~$150 on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-For-DELL-XPS-12-12R-I7-3537U-LP125WF1-SPA1-12-5-LCD-Digital-Display-/121259761577?hash=item1c3ba51fa9:g:khMAAOxyVaBS3yty
https://senk9.wordpress.com/2014/02/21/lenovox220/
install TLP for better battery life on thinkpad http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-linux-advanced-power-management.html#start
So I picked up a lenovo thinkpad x220 which is a beast of a machine. It's awesome for heavy work, but it's not the most portable machine.
I've absolutely fallen in love with these older thinkpad keyboards and the ability to replace and/or upgrade all parts of these machines.
An x220 would be a more portable machine with the same awesome keyboard. One problem though: the screen resolution is horrible: 1366x768.
It does look like someone hardware hacked a 12.5" 1080p screen from an older dell xps machine into the x220 though:
reddit post: https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/2pkp9k/can_i_upgrade_the_panel_in_a_dying_but_awesome/cmxnxg2 forum post: http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?p=722162#p722162 project photo gallery: http://imgur.com/a/VIeM3
can pick up one of these screens for ~$150 on ebay: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-For-DELL-XPS-12-12R-I7-3537U-LP125WF1-SPA1-12-5-LCD-Digital-Display-/121259761577?hash=item1c3ba51fa9:g:khMAAOxyVaBS3yty