alt Hacker NewsYeah, I really just want a refreshed early 2010s Thinkpad with a wide-open BIOS. The modern Chinese mainboards you can get for old Thinkpad chassis are very cool but the prices aren't so cool.
Yeah, I really just want a refreshed early 2010s Thinkpad with a wide-open BIOS. The modern Chinese mainboards you can get for old Thinkpad chassis are very cool but the prices aren't so cool.
Whoa I had no idea that was a thing. Links?
I have a ThinkPad x230 (3rd gen i7) which makes an incredible Windows XP nostalgia device. It’s basically the newest hardware that exists with full XP drivers (other than USB3 which I don’t need) so it’s massively OP, which was the point of that project. Basically, “what if I had access to insanely futuristic hardware in 2002.”
Obviously I wouldn’t sacrifice that hardware but it might be cool to try that on yet another laptop. (Hey, I don’t have a laptop collecting problem!)