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Comment on My refurbished ThinkPad (L390 Yoga) came with wrong rubber feet (too thick) not allowing it to turn into tablet mode.

lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

I have an L390 Yoga (i7) and these feet are indeed way too large.

The device is painful to use even with the correct feet, though - at least if you’re using Windows. It’s constantly overheating, because the cooling system is just reused from the L380 and can’t handle the heat of my i7 8565U processor. But hey - at least the marketing people where able to put “4.6GHz” into the specs.

I have to undervolt the CPU to make it run cool and prevent thermal throttling, which is not possible anymore if you’re running a current Windows version.

That thing is probably the last Thinkpad I’ve ever bought, to be honest.

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tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

It’s of poor quality (the rubber of the cable on mine is turning into a sticky mess) and entirely passive.

Maybe ten years back, a whole ton of consumer electronics were made with some rubberized coating which felt great when new, but over the course of several years, degraded into an incredibly sticky mess.

I had a Grundig shortwave radio covered in the stuff.

Eventually, after I went to a lot of work with different substances, I discovered that isopropyl alcohol and some elbow grease could get it off. But if this is the same stuff and it’s just a cable, I’d probably just replace the cable.

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- dual_sport_dork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  As somewhat of a retro '90’s-2000’s electronics collecting nerd, this stuff is the bane of my existence.
  
  It seems like in the early 2000’s there were only three types of finishes applied to electronics products:
  
  TPE “soft touch” coatings that turn into snot after a few years
  
  Crappy metallized silver paint that starts flaking off immediately
  
  White or Bondi Blue plastic under a clear acrylic layer trying to ape an early iMac or iPod, which gets dirt trapped between the layers and then turns yellow
  
  You just can’t win.
  
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  - tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    Crappy metallized silver paint that starts flaking off immediately (basically every digital camera ever made from 1999-2006
    
    Oh, man, yeah, I’d forgotten about that.
    
    White or Bondi Blue plastic under a clear acrylic layer trying to ape an early iMac or iPod
    
    Hah, I avoided those. I think I had one translucent device at one point.
    
    That being said, from the 1970s and 1980s, you had all those light beige things that yellowed It wasn’t the worst kind of aging, and it was treatable, but there were so many items whose age was visible.
    
    henningludvigsen.com/…/sun-fading-old-yellowed-pl…
    
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user224@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
Hmmm, did you get it new?
I’ve checked a review of this laptop and it had correct ones:
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- lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Yes I bought it ~3 years ago directly from Lenovo and the rubber feet look just like the ones in that photo.
  
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- tehWrapper@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  It looks like the feet are on the opposite side of the hinge in this photo and on the same side as them in your photo?
  
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  - tal@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    There are feet both on the side next to the hinge and on the side opposite the hinge in the photo. Like, one one each corner of the underside of the laptop.
    
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