 All right, it's a little late tonight, but and I'm actually a little tired, but I'm just restless So I'm gonna be doing a video that I've been meaning to do and that's a review of my ThinkPad X200 I've had this thing for I don't know maybe a year or so Of course this machine I got it used. It's actually this thing was made. I think in 2008 or so So you might think it's ancient technology, but I swear by this thing. In fact, it's my main machine I do have a desktop. That's very modern, but I do most of my stuff on this I can do everything my desktop can and it's strongly recommended So what what kind of features are we talking about now first off this thing? Of course is a ThinkPad if you don't know the ThinkPad brand if you don't love it There's something wrong with you. You gotta you gotta try it. There are a couple reasons for that You might not like the big black design, but you know here are the perks Okay, first off these things are durable durable is all hell I mean I've taken this thing has taken a beating beating over the years and in fact just last week This thing I put it on the water cooler was getting some water too lazy to put it somewhere else It actually fell and right on the screen right up here and the thing about these the thing That's so nice is that these things are so modular that if you take any kind of pressure take any kind of force The little pieces will just sort of snap out and there's no problem It's not like a it's not like a MacBook. That's more or less one big piece and if you drop it you're just it's over If this thing takes any kind of pressure The part on the top is just gonna sort of snap out and you can just snap it back in so that's what happened I didn't have to worry about it. I've also dropped other ThinkPads. I mean a couple Let's see a couple months ago I was running with my ThinkPad 420 had to get to a meeting and I fell on my ass bruised both of my knees pretty bad I actually had some trouble walking and the ThinkPad fell on the ground and You know actually the CD drive shot out and I was like, oh god. I totally broke it. It's gone for good But no actually everything snapped right but get back together. Everything works fine So yeah ThinkPads are a great brand for this and also for Linux users You will net pretty much never have any compatibility problems Everything Linux runs pretty well on a ThinkPad. It's just not something I've ever had to worry about Okay, so why specifically the X200? This is by far my favorite model Now the X200 I got for a couple reasons chief among which is that you can have this thing Libre booted So I replaced actually I didn't do it myself. I had it done by someone else. I replaced the BIOS with Libre boot so now I have a faster boot and of course it's free software So I don't have to worry about back doors or anything theoretical like that. So it's it's very nice to have So that's one of the reasons I got it another one is you will notice there's no trackpad and that is not a bug. It's a feature because anyone who has Found the glory of the track point Will know that this thing is totally great and you should switch to this just because it's nice Being able to type and you know move your mouse pretty much at the same time You don't have to go up and down or over to your mouse or something like that So I never needed a trackpad. So I got one without it. If you do want a trackpad You can get the what is it X2 20 that one has it or you can get you know one of the T models or something Like that T 400 T 420 T 400 can be Libre booted as well and it's nice and big and has a track pad and all that stuff, but so what else Some other So I think this thing so we got a nine volt battery and that thing on Linux that'll last maybe a little over four hours Allegedly on Windows it lasts a little longer. I don't know if that's actually true Because I hear people say it lasts. Oh, it's like nine hours. I don't know if I want to believe that but Allegedly, that's the case. Let's see what else, you know, you got all your you know get the near little think vantage button I've remapped a bunch of these keys So like, you know, this is another super button just because I want one on this side or caps lock is now escape It's just stuff like that, but you know a pretty standard keyboard. You got your back and forward buttons Stuff like that some nice some nice little things, but you know got your function keys But it's pretty much to be expected fingerprint reader I never use that and you can get models with webcams. I don't have one, but you know, that's there So as it comes to individual changes as I said, one of the great things is like everything's very replaceable You can also go in and make changes pretty easily Just unscrew a couple things So as I said, this thing's been Libre booted So someone went in and made some changes to the motherboard Aside from that, I've also changed the Wi-Fi driver so I can get best compatibility with like parabola or other Free operating systems. I also have an SSD Sorry, I'm pointing to it like you can see it, but yeah, it's in there So I switched to a solid-state drive and one of the things okay, well, I should put it this way So you might be a little afraid of a computer that's this old, you know, that's obsolete Because this thing only has an Intel Core Duo and there are advantages to that like i5's and i7's like I mean don't get me wrong. I have computers with them, but they do have back doors So if you want a truly secure Computer it's best to have an Intel Core Duo or something like that one of the more older models And you might wonder oh god, doesn't this thing run really slow or something like that and it actually doesn't in fact This thing is actually faster than my you know 16 gigabyte of RAM i7 desktop Just because of the SSD. I don't have an SSD on that thing So this thing actually does all my basic computing actually a lot faster just because of the SSD and You know all the processor intensive stuff that I do which I do do a lot I mean I do I compile a lot of programs and I Do a lot of video editing rendering and stuff And you know the I took the Intel Core Duo does fine. So it's nothing to worry about I mean I I think the whole meme of like being afraid of old processors because they're not the most Recent I think it's I mean unless you're playing full-screen video games like that are very modern It's not something you really have to worry about So I think that's about it. I gotta think gotta think I think that's about it So yeah, I totally recommend any kind of think pad, but the think pad X 200 is great You can find this thing this model will go for less than a hundred dollars if you want it on YouTube or not YouTube eBay I always say I always get sites mixed up sometimes. I'll call like Walmart McDonald's or something like that I don't know. I just get words mixed anyway. Who cares? So yeah, this thing's maybe around a hundred. I also have an X 60 Which is like a sort of narrower equivalent of this and that is that was I got that for like 30 bucks Oh, oh, there is one more thing. I have to say there are a couple things that this thing does not have One is a CD drive now if you want a CD drive you can get one of the docks And you can you you know, they're usually like 15 bucks or something like that and you get a dock and you can put this in it And you can put CDs in so that's fine. If you really need that Also, it only has let's see. Yeah, it only has a VGA Doesn't have an HDMI. Although. I think the docks have HDMI is to although I've never had to use one to be honest. I always VGA is far sufficient Trying to think what else I mean, it has it has all the card readers you could ever use including ones that are Effectively obsolete three USB ports. So yeah, this thing's all around my favorite computer out there pretty much So I highly recommend it. So anyway, well, thanks for watching