yeah what's up so you want to think pads
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you got ping pads there they are so in
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this video I am gonna talk about a
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questions I get all the time actually
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because a lot of people will tell me
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okay
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I'm falling for the ThinkPad mean people
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always are always talking about how
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started a are how reliable they are I
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want to get one myself but I have no
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clue which one to get I get this email
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all the time I get the get it as a
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comment all the time so in this video
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I'm gonna tell you my experiences with
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different thing pets and the kind of
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stuff you want to look out for or you
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know the kind of stuff that I guess or
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like what model specifically is the best
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for you so I have four fig paths all of
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them are different models which might
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sound like a lie you might be like oh
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geez you're really obsessed but like
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given how much I paid for all of these I
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mean I paid you know what a third of the
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price of a macbook for all four of these
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together actually there's another one I
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bought but I had given it to a friend
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so there's actually another one but
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still it probably is no more than 500
Models
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bucks altogether so these things you buy
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them use they're all pretty cheap so if
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you're watching this video you might
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already know why you want to get a think
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pad they're extremely sturdy their
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business laptops that are made to last
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this model right here right X 60 these
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things have been around for 11 years
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like they came out in the Bush
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administration which it ends up that's a
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long time ago now so anyway let me but I
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want to talk about specifically which
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kind of models you want to get because
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people always ask me that so I'll go
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ahead and introduce you to the ones I
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have here so this one here is the t4 20
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so there are two main series of thick
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pads that people usually talk about
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there's the T series and there's an the
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X series so this is my only of the T
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series now the T series they're the I'm
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going to say 16-inch I forget what exact
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image in inch inch edge in image I
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forget the exact image but these things
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are the sort of mid-sized so the T
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series are sort of if you want a laptop
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that's not ultra portable it's just sort
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of a normal lab
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that's the series to look at the other
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three here are the x-series and
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obviously by the fact I have three of
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these I actually prefer the x-series
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there they're a little bit more portable
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but they don't really come at a huge
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like disadvantage in terms of processing
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power they're pretty much the same as
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the T's just a little smaller of course
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they're gonna have less screen
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resolution or whatever so you know these
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are the main series of thinkpads T's and
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X's there are actually a lot of other
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ones but pretty much all the ones worth
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getting or either t-rex's there are also
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double use which are you know desktop
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replacements these things are enormous
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you know you have a couple other ones
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but these are pretty much for the ones
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you'll you'll see so when you're
Keyboards
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thinking about what kind of think pad to
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get the important thing to remember is
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that think pets have been getting bad as
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years have progressed right so when IBM
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used to make these things this is you
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know one of the classic this x60 right
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here this is one of the classic IBM
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ThinkPads even as the IBM logo these are
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like tangibly a better quality than the
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later ones and one of the main changes
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that happened which hasn't you know
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didn't occur when any of these laptops
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were made but you know eventually when
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Lenovo back bought the ThinkPad brand
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they switched from this kind of the
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classic keyboard here to a chiclet
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keyboard that you might be you know the
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kind of stuff you have on Macs or things
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you know more nowadays which I don't
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know why because though there's kind of
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clue
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excuse me uh keyboards are just terrible
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for like actual use when you're actually
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getting in there and like you know you
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know typing all day or typing for a long
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period those things hurt these kind of
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keyboards they're very tactile and it's
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one of the reasons that people like the
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classic thing pads so the reason I
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mentioned that is all the models I have
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here this is the X 60 this is the X 200
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this is the X 220 and that's again is
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the t 420 all of the models here have
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this classic design and these two models
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here the X 220 and the T
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four-twenty are the last ones of their
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series that had them after that when you
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got to the X 2:30 those had the the
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Chiclets like keyboards so a lot of
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people will say these are the last good
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thing pets so those are the ones if you
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if that's your only concern I want like
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an old you know a good classic thing pet
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quality the X 2 X 2 20 or the T 4 20 or
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the the sort of chosen you know designs
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now the other thing about these two is
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in addition to being some of the last
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ones with the actual think pad keyboard
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they're one of the first series that has
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I 5 and i7 processors now that can be
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good and bad for most people that's
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going to be good because you don't
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really care about anything else you want
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to have a faster computer but it's bad
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in the sense that in case you don't know
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you know i5 sy7 so that's when the Intel
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management engine got to a point where
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it's hard to get rid of it is basically
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spyware it's a backdoor in your computer
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basically every computer has them but
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the nice thing about the earlier thing
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pets before this like the X 200 and X 60
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is the Intel management engine was
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different it was encrypted in a
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different way I forget these specifics I
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don't know at all but the long story
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short is these computers you can put a
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totally free BIOS on it like Libre boot
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and you can totally get rid of the Intel
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management engine and any back doors so
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of course you'll see here I actually
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have the Libre boot screen pulled up
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full for my X 200 and I have leaper boot
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on both of these machines so getting it
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on the X 200 the X 200 now well I should
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put it this way if you want a totally
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free machine if that's your priority you
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don't really care as much about
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processing power or anything like that
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you might want to go with the X 200
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because the X 200 it has an Intel Core 2
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Duo by default it's a lot faster than
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things like this the X 60 it is the last
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libra bootable computer but I'm saying
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that with an asterisk because right now
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a couple companies a couple you know
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individual tinkerers have sort of been
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finding the finding the final
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fix for you know later Intel Management
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engines how to get rid of them how to
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replace them with totally free biases so
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it might be in a couple months
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you can get Libre boot on the X 220 and
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the t4 20 or get rid of the management
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engine or something like that so that
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you might want to double check if that's
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the case whenever you're watching this
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video but that said the X 200 I can
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vouch for it's a great computer and it
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for the longest time it well I'll go
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ahead and say the computers I use as
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sort of daily drivers or either the X
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220 or the X 200 right now I had some
7:07
firmware problems with the X 200 so I'm
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using the X 220 for the time being but
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I'll probably switch back I prefer that
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you to use the X 200 just because it's
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all free software and the only other
Installing Libreboot
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caveat about that is that if you want to
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install Libre boot on the X 200 you do
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have to have you do have to install it
7:26
with a Raspberry Pi or a BeagleBone
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black or some kind of external
7:31
programmer you have to actually open up
7:33
the motherboard and you know do the
7:35
whole thing with the flash rom and all
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this stuff so it's a little more
7:39
difficult of a process if you've been
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watching my videos for a while you might
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have seen a video I put up a couple
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months ago on libre booting the X 60
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which is at a much easier process you
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can just do it in the software so that's
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another consideration so the reason I
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have all these different computers is
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actually because they all sort of serve
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different niches in here well one of the
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reasons I have them is they're so cheap
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I mean just to give you this thing costs
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about 30 bucks that's a little on the
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cheap and I always get them when they're
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very cheap I don't get the medium prices
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I wait for prices to come that are
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really a steal but I got the X 64 around
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300 bucks I earn 300 bucks 30 bucks not
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300 the X 200 I want to say I got that
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around $200 which is a little much but
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it came with Libre boot installed so I
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didn't have to worry about and that was
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worth it for me the x 220 back there I
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got that for less than a hundred bucks
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that was like $90 I want to say and then
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this one here the T for 20 I got that
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for maybe little over
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hundred I forget exactly I think the the
8:48
actual price of it was like two hundred
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something but I had sort of a coupon so
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yeah again I've spent like less than
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five hundred dollars or I just do the
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math in my head I you know I can't do
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math real-time but that's less than 500
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bucks whatever so yeah that this is just
Conclusion
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informational and so I should say I have
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all of these x-series laptops so you
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have the early one which you can install
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Libre bouton just using the software if
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you want a t-series there is also the T
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60 which is the equivalent in the T
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series if you just want something like
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this that you can leap reboot but you
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know you want a larger laptop with a
9:26
bigger screen you can get that and also
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the equivalent of the X 200 is the TV T
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400 yeah T 400 which again you can leave
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remove with a Raspberry Pi it's the last
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of the intel core2duo doesn't have the
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later management engine so really if I
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had those other two laptops there's sort
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of a symmetry to them in that like the
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series's series is you know sort of have
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all the same properties they're just a
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different size so anyway this is pretty
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much all the basic information I would
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recommend if you want to check out a
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think pad look on ebay don't be you know
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everyone said all I get a comment from
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someone who says all people said think
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pads are cheap but I looked them up on
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Lenovo's websites and they're thousands
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of dollars don't get a new one don't get
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one I don't recommend getting one after
10:14
the X 220 or t4 20 because these things
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are perfect quality they're still great
10:20
there's still so many of them on the
10:22
market despite the fact that there they
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are you know what like six seven years
10:26
old or something like that they're still
10:27
kicking and if you want a modern
10:29
processor if you want like the newest i7
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you can still install them on one of
10:34
those and they work great but then again
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all these computers would work great if
10:37
you have you know something like a
10:39
solid-state drive or something else like
10:41
that you don't even need that but anyway
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so this has just been an informational
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so thanks for watching I'm gonna do more
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in-depth reviews of this computer and
10:51
that one which I haven't talked about on
10:53
my channel before but I do have and they
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are worth talking about so check those
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out if you want so
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anyway see you guys next time

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