ThinkPad or ThinkBad? Has Lenovo ruined the best laptop ever made?

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That Boeing comment 😅

That is NOT a Thinkpad, sadly Lenovo ruined the godly brand it is. That is a Ideapad disguised as a Thinkpad

"My wife's boyfriend."
why did he say that so calmly?🤣

Just wanna add (as someone who repairs damaged circuits under a microscope), this is what many board technicians would refer to as "flexion damage". It's not so much that it causes solder to crack (although it can certainly do this). It's usually breaking internal board traces.
Your typical computer motherboard will contain anywhere from 5-10 layers of copper. These layers of copper are all going to be micrometers thin, sandwiched between layers of PCB substrate, and machine cut/laser/chemical etched to form the traces needed to make the connections the board requires. These internal layers are what create all of the connections that get components hook up from point A to point Z. It's how the 45th ball under something like the PCH can hook up to a capacitor all the way on the other side of the board. Think of the internal layers of copper like wires. A motherboard is just a sandwich of wires.
With the copper layers being so thin, and the board being so flexible, over time the board can flex so much that some traces within the board just break. It could be something as simple as one specific trace out of thousands that prevent a necessary power rail from being produced. In other cases, it can also cause solder balls underneath BGA flip chips to crack.
The most notorious example of flexion damage is probably the Meson Touch IC controller in the iPhone 6+. For a few years many repair technicians thought this chip was just going bad due to flexion damage (balls would crack/cause shorts, thus damaging the chip). However, repairs would come back months later with the same issue. It was eventually determined that an internal trace connecting the M1 pad to the chip was the fault --- this trace would get damaged from flexing, and cause that pad to no longer connect to the vital circuitry it needed to make the chip work correctly. The "permanent fix" for this was to run a jumper from that pad to the next point in the circuit, basically bypassing the faulty trace.

E stands for E-waste.

Greatest technician that's ever lived didn't roast our moms today

Thats not a thinkpad, thats a meditatepannel 😭😭😭😭💀💀💀💀💀💀🍞

My MSI laptop short circuited and wouldn't boot back up. I sent it to a repair shop for an assessment. They said the motherboard was in pieces with many screws straight up missing and the charging port was so twisted that the electric cables connected to it got cut by torsion. The cause of all this? You got it, cheap plastic frame. Everytime I would open the screen the charging port would turn slightly until that happened. I've had this 1300$ gaming laptop for years and I never dropped it or forced it in anyway, I just normally moved it around or placed it on my lap. With the state it was in it was a miracle that it didn't fail sooner. They had to change the whole palm rest, the charging port and either replace the lost screws or fix in place the parts of the motherboard with creative means to get it back in working order. Now that I know I swear the next laptop I buy will have a metal frame.

Bro is about to die from a self inflicted wound 💀

The Boeing joke got me dead.... Oh and them too..😅😅

“Like boeing covers up mur-“ AHAHAHAHAHAH 😭😭💀💀

That's modern Lenovo. My old Y510 goes blue screen when picked up. Works decently when standing

My brain is happy after watching your videos

“P stands for pen…. Professional” made me laugh my ass off😂😂😂😂

Whenever you start hearing your laptop crack when you pick it up always invest in a hard protective cover for it.

I remember these school laptops, always had broken keyboards and missing keys. and the red dot was always gone

Thinkpad❌️
DumbAFpad✅️

Imo laptops shouldn’t even have plastic chassis
Metal should be the standard above like $400

Leaving that screw in the mobo was actually hilarious

"Now normally this indicates a mental disorder or in the laptops case, a problem with a ram or ssds" 😭🤣

That Boeing joke was savage asf 😂😂😂😂

ThinkPad E's are expensive IdeaPads, and that makes me very sad.

"My wife's boyfriend"
bros getting his word counts in his essay

let’s circle back to "my wife’s boyfriend" for a second 💀

"I go ahead and cover it up, like how Boeing covers up murd-"
MCAS flashbacks

“…my wife’s boyfriend” 😂😂😂😂

P- Professional
what was bro about to say💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

P - Series: Professional
E - Series: Eh

That thing does not deserve a ThinkPad name

I think the thinkpad makers are clearly not thinking

Finally got to know what issue my laptop has🤦🏻

Those cut edits were so good to censor all the swearing 😂

That boeing joke opened the door for so many more 😂

“that was 17 seconds”
“…WHAT”

I have used a last gen E14 laptop. That thing felt like a tank - both in the sturdiness and weight. I heard they cut down the weight of the latest model - which probably means some material was removed somewhere.

What is your birthday? They should move the national insult day to it

I'm sticking with my T490 until the T14 Gen 5 releases. I am glad that they brought back upgradability, I once thought about the E series but heard the nightmares of that series.

This also happened to my p51s. Had to replace the motherboard 3+ times 😥 In the end the technician replaced the back cover with a sturdier one and the issue is fixed.

This was common on plastic laptops around 2005 or so when they swapped to crappy lead free solder. And it happened for years after.
Magnesium chassis lasted way longer.

"P" stands for "Pe- Proffesional"😅😂

I used to work heavily on Lenovo's and they've always had issues like this. I had system board removal and replacement down to a 15 minute process because I did so many of them.

An old laptop i had a few years ago broke like you smashed the screen when the corner of the damn thing lightly touched a desk bruh

Our IT department recently sorted out some old laptops and PCs. They would have gone to the landfill, so they always ask around, if someone needs something. Of course, obviously, no warranty. Got myself an old Thinkpad. One that still has that red nipple in the middle of the keyboard that you can use to move the mouse.
Opened it up. The ports are connected via flatband cables to the motherboard, meaning I can swap out every single port myself. I can also swap out the battery, RAM, SSD. Basically everything except CPU and GPU. Display can be swapped relatively easily as well.
These new ThinkPads are a disgrace.

Cook the motherboard in an oven so it gets re solder. But keep it on a flat surface so the components don’t fall off and remove the cooling system and all the detachable parts so if you run into a problem the whole system is not ruined. But it’s a great last resort.

I remember when thinkpads were all bona fide bulletproof. Apparently some investors have found a larger supply of alcohol and cocaine since then ’cause nobody in their right mind would take a product’s best part and rip it to pieces.

"Thinkpad"
Me: Welcome to Baldi's Basics in education and learning

My wife's boyfriend: my math is not mathing

the Boeing joke it's too real

"Once this happens, well, you're fu-sad"
Hilarious. Love your shorts dude

"Like Boeing covers up mu.."
Wild 😂

There was a model of Toshiba's laptops that would hard lock up at some point due to an issue with the hard drive. The method to get it to get past the lockup I discovered was to rock it back and forth on its back edge. It would get the system past the "locked state" somehow, probably by wiggling the hard drive in such a way that its own spin would get it past its foibles, and the system would work fine again after that.
Laptops have a long history of being fucky.

Once again, the greatest technician that's ever lived graces my feed.

A few years ago, I bought a used Lenovo T540p laptop from a pawn shop. I upgraded the HDD to a small WD Blue 240 GB SSD and maxed out the DDR3 ram to 16 GB. It still works.

That screw was side-eyeing at you like "am I a joke to you"? 😂

We had a ruggedised tablet well before the iPad was invented. You could throw the thing across the room and it would survive no problem. But if you picked it up the wrong way, the case twisted enough to hit the reset button, rebooting the entire machine.

I remember when you could bash Thinkpad laptops on someone's head and it would barely have any scratches on it.
You gotta miss those IBM Thinkpad series, they just don't make it like they used to..
I'm glad that I stockpiled a few T440s and X250s a while ago.

This is why I almost always move my laptop with 2 hands. I don't slide it around with one hand. I pick it up and move it. Take care of your stuff guys.

That's the laptop my school gives out to students. For some reason, the hinges always snap right off.

CPU reball can solve the problem. Fixed a 1000 laptops with same issue. Sometimes the soldering connection of the ram slot is broken too.

That almost feels illegal because the quality of the case is so bad it causes internal damage to the laptop which is the designer’s fault

When buying Thinkpads. Get either P models, or T models. My T490 is a beast, it's chassis is a monster.

"anytime this laptop is moved it freezes like your brain watching my videos" 💀💀💀

I’m 25 now and when I was 21 the Lenovo Thinkpad X1 extreme was soooo good and I only just replaced it with a Corsair Vengeance i8200 a few months ago. It’s sad to see where Lenovo is headed…

The boards are usually made of FR4, fiberglass, and they can flex but when they do it can break the solder joints, vias, so NEVER flex them, and put as little weight on them as possible when mounting sideways like tower cases now with the CPU and large heatsinks. It stresses the board. I used to work at a PC board factors, that's how I know this.

You missed a great opportunity to call it a stink pad.

>whenever something flickers by moving, I check the RAM and SSD
>the only two solid state components on the entire machine

Yup, my chromebook's motherboard broke because I charged it wrong. My school just ended up replacing the whole computer.

This guy keeps roasting the hell out of us and we are like :
👍😐👍

E stands for Escoliosis. (something that my mom learned the hard way with someone called the greatest technician thats ever lived)

Old Thinkpad Problem, i have an L560, it also freezes if i pick it up be the bottom left Corner, otherwise pretty good laptop, and got it for 50€ so i cant really complain!

Bro said the cheap Thinkpad is as same as Boeing's emergency exit door💀💀💀

Weird flex

Me and my coworkers call them “stinkpads”
Stay away from “Le Oh No” cause that’s all you will be saying. They just suck recently. Cheaply designed and break easily. Biggest issue I had was the USB charging port dying in a month due to faulty port or terrible firmware.

"Boss, I don't think that words means what you think it does"- RIP Andre

My Ideapad has this exact problem along the the corners. The hinges put so much tension on the frame, that it eventually cracked.

Thinkpads have been low quality since the T580.
It bends like a cheap acer Notebook too, while having 5 times the price

850 on a plastic laptop 💀💀💀 scammed much.

I had this problem. What we did, was baking it. It worked.
Went to 180 Celsius for 20 min, then going up to 220ish and cool down.
My PC works now.

Definition of this shorts: technology shorts while having a mental breakdown

My brain after watching your videos has to reprocess what monstrosity you just said a million times😂

L, X Series Lenovo Thinkpads rule

Even doctor jhon sturgis is even dissapointed😂

This also happens to the T14 Gen 1, 2 and the T490 since they use EXACTLY the same motherboard and chassis design.

E stands for economic problems

The greatest technician saga continues

Imagine a car imploding at the sub 10 MPH collision. But of course you dont die when the laptop bends

My laptop did this for like 2 years. If picked up or if it bounced on a surface too hard, it just shorted and turned off

The "You can think" Pad™ from baldi's basics 😂

penile fracture

Watching this channels videos always brightens my day with a huge smile 😃

Bro roasting the viewer 🗿🤣

My laptop's screen is coming off from opening and closing of the lid lol 😂

Imagine having this brand during the times of space discovery and the whole ship just breaks a part

I once bought a nice 17" laptop that was nice until I noticed a major design flaw: The metal trim around the keyboard pressed into the monitor. As a result, over time, it scratched the screen permanently damaging it.

"It freezes up like your brain when watching my videos" I may just saw your video now but that's relatable

My brain doesn't freeze up when watching your videos, it rewinds.

Except that the T series also had this issue, and the best way to resolve it was to put some rubber pads next to the ram.

*Holding it correctly has left the universe*

My first laptop was the old thinkpad and I only stopped using it until 2020. It won’t boot up anymore but loved that thing best laptop I’ve ever owned