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monsterpiece42@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

So I don’t have a direct answer about vanilla/s/p board compatibility but my question for you is, why not just get a T440 board? They can be had on eBay for $80-100 USD and will drop in. You can get up to an i7-4600U, which is more than fine for daily computing with an SSD and at least 16GB of DDR3-1600.

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brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
oh damn, i didn’t realize you can get boards like that! i thought they all had the i3, so i didn’t bother to look. thanks a lot!

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- monsterpiece42@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Sure thing! So Lenovo has the PSREF library which is awesome about old hardware specs, so you can always look up what you could have got in your machine back when they were new.
  
  Here’s a link to the .PDF for your T440.
  
  One of the reasons I like Thinkpads so much is the support of the community with mods, parts and so on. Feel free to hmu if you need Thinkpad help lol.
  
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  - brachypelmasmithi@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    One of the reasons I like Thinkpads so much is the support of the community with mods, parts and so on. Feel free to hmu if you need Thinkpad help lol. That’s specifically why I got mine. It’s a shame I couldn’t find good deals on a T440P in my area but even the regular T440 should be enough for my needs. Thanks for the link btw! Interesting that the T440 has a military specification lmao
    
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    monsterpiece42@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    Yeah I wouldn’t worry about having a non-p. I’d bet the extra battery life would be worth the slight hit to performance.
    
    And yeah, Thinkpads are tanks, and I appreciates that about them.
    
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