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Finally upgraded a €180 Thinkpad T480 (lemmy.world)
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Bought it used (but literally like new, not even a scratch) for €180 and then slapped on it 2x32GB RAM sticks (Patriot, DDR4 3200Mhz, €68 for the two sticks), a 1TB M.2 2280 (WD_BLUE SN570, €54) and a used Intel AX200 Wi-Fi card (€15) for a total of €317 for the laptop + the upgrades (+ this dock as the seller included it with the laptop: https://support.lenovo.com/us/en/solutions/pd500180-thinkpad-hybrid-usb-c-with-usb-a-dock-overview-and-service-parts). I also did a repaste with some Noctua NT-H2 paste I had laying around.

I'm really happy with it right now, and yes the T480 does support 64GB of total RAM despite the official website and even the system itself reporting 32GB as the maximum installable capacity, and yes you can also go for higher frequency sticks as long as they are DDR4 as they'll downclock themselves to the max supported frequency of your laptop anyway, this is important because old DDR4 sticks are rare and expensive.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Great buy and upgrades, btw what is the model number of the RAM sticks? It's actually useful if someone needs to buy compatible RAM.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The sticks I bought were Patriot Memory SODIMM DDR4 3200Mhz sticks. The full details are: DDR4 3200 MHz PC4-25600 32Go (1x32Go) C22 - PSD432G32002S.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Much appreciated! I'm sure those details might help someone in the future.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Snoo? This isn't Reddit!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Oh my! I'm sure most of us didn't know this isn't Reddit...Thank you for the impressive, useful and most informative comment which imagine that, is actually very Reddit like. 🤭

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What's ironic is that I'm getting lectured about my username by someone who calls himself a punk 👀

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You have everything in my history to work with, and that's the best you can come up with? Sad...

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Thanks for the suggestion punk but a troll's profile doesn't interest me.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I ignored this until now but your life must be incredibly pathetic if you need to upvote your own assholish comment with alts like [email protected], @[email protected] and @[email protected] and downvote me and Artemis with the same alts. You probably don't know how Lemmy works if you thought your vote manipulation would go unnoticed.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Cool! The T480s are great laptops. Thats what mine is and it runs flawlessly on Arch.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I flinched there for a second but I absolutely hate the s subversion of the series forgoing the RJ45 port completely. We procure them for some high management and execs. The base version is rock solid

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I’m still running on my T480, but got the i7 and discreet graphics from the start. Did the SSD AND 32GB upgrade about 5 years back. I’m sure it’ll last till the end of Win10 support and THEN it’ll probably go Linux.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's a alot of dedicated wam

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

next step is to find out what I should dedotate it to

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

ramdisk

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Epic post OP thanks for the info!