Anyone still deploying Thinkpads at work?

Long time Thinkpad user. I currently have T60-T520s at work.

Just kind of curious who was still deploying Thinkpads at work and or other brands for comparison. I'm not familiar with the newer gens after Tx20 and wondering how the past few gens have fared with reliability and problems etc.

I'm thinking about picking up a few T450x models...

 

We've probably purchased 6-7 T450s's in the past 6 months. So far everyone seems to like 'em. Our typical config is 12GB RAM, 256GB SSD, FHS IPS screen (non-touch) and Win7 pro.

 

We are a small business, so deploying might not be the right word. We are still buying Thinkpads for our staff and professionals. Except for me that is. I use a Surface 3, but my secretary has a Thinkpad on her desk and so does everybody else.

 

I work at a hospital IT department and we deploy thinkpad t450s because they are light. I would guess we have several hundred deployed through out the hospital. We use dell latitude for our ergotron carts. We call the carts WOW's or workstation on wheels.

 

Ours switched from HP to Dell to Thinkpads (X1C and T450s).

 

Why did you get the Surface 3?

 

My original set up was a Notebook (Thinkpad X301), small tablet (Asus Note 8) and phone (Blackberry Curve). The Note 8 was my real travel unit. I traveled with it and a small BT Keyboard. I used it the pen to annotate PDF's, track my time, sign documents on the road, etc. When I ran over my briefcase with the AVN8 in it, I was able to use the Microsoft Complete Accidential warranty. But, they couldn't replace or repair the AVN8. I took the new Surface 3 instead. After I got used to it, I realized that it was actually faster than the 10w SU9300 C2D in my old X301. So, I retired the X301 and acquired a docking setup for the Surface 3. Here is the current set-up.

When I leave the office, the S3 gets its type cover and goes into the briefcase. Takes up no more room than my old leather legal pad folio.

Replaced my old Curve with a Lumia 928 and this year replaced that with the Galaxy Note 5. So my three device solution evolved into a 2 device solution.

 

So the real answer is that you like having electronic ink pen support. I figured it was either that our you had a specific set of touch apps you want/need to use. The Surface units are pretty cool. I would not mind having the Surface Book but it is too expensive. Sold my MacBook Pro Retina and plan to order the ThinkPad Carbon Gen 4.

 

The broadcasting company I engineer and do IT at still uses ThinkPads, we bought 4 T 450s's 6 months ago. All users happy. Windows 7 Professional, same configuration as jayku describes. I am supposed to be getting one on my desk next purchase.

 

We've been a Lenovo shop for years, and just did our tech refresh to bring everyone on to T450s machines, with a sprinkle of W550s to go along with them. We considered going with the Dell Latitude 7450, but ultimately decided to stick with what we know.

 

We have been deploying T440p with i7, 16gb RAM and 240gb SSDs throughout the company. We use the DVD bay for an additional SSD if required.

 

My company of ~50 does. Fellow team members and I each got to choose a set up. I went with the T450s, top-shelf specs, of course.

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I hope not. Giving your employee newer thinkpads is like giving Army giving their soldiers Chinese made weapons. Anything after W530 is rubbish. Better deploy Elitebooks to remain competitive.

 

How did you reach that conclusion? Did you try every thinkpads that are available? I am happy with the thinkpad issued at work.

By the way, W700DS, W500, X200T in your signature were made by Lenovo, a Chinese company.

 

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkP...0-today-First-impressions/td-p/1365799/page/3

https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkP...1-or-perhaps-a-Dell-M3800/td-p/2050191/page/2

The build quality of the W540 is atrocious from online reviews and feedbacks, The W541 is the same build as the W540.

 

Can anyone recommend a decent machine. I'm going to help someone who's going to be ordering 50-100 machines. They get ok pricing from Dell, funny thing is they absolutely don't want Thinkpads (I'm not a fan of new ones with soldered ram anyways and the high price point). They've already ordered a surface pro 4 which I think is not a sound decision at 128gb and 4gb soldered, terrible "docking". I know sales people don't need a lot of ram but at $800 after tax this 4gb non upgradeable machine is going to suck in a few years.

I have experience with the e7240 (surprisingly sturdy and easy service) and I keep telling them to buy a bunch off dell financial outlet. They are only going to use it for outlook, excel, remote desktop etc.

 

My company uses HP desktops mainly but we have a shortage of laptops. We needed one spare for presentation work for our trainers so I acquired a cheap, second hand ThinkPad T420 - a broken one in fact!

It had a smashed screen, was a bit grubby and missing a few things such as trims, hard drive and charger. The motherboard and ports all work and didn't have any BIOS locks, I had a few spare parts lying around so I took it in and gave it a good overhaul and clean. It kinda helps that I personally own this particular model so working on it was second nature (no need for the manual).

It's been fixed up and cleaned so now its been redeployed from ragged dumpster to PowerPoint hero in our office!

Probably the wrong section to ask this but as you mentioned the Latitude 7000 series is pretty popular due to its Ultrabook dimensions so it's great for people on the move. It should be compatible with some existing E-Port dock systems too if your company already has them to reduce transition costs.

If the system is mainly going to be on a desk all the time the Latitude 5000 series should be a good balance of cost and performance without compromising on serviceability too.

 

The irony of your statement in relation to your signature just flew over your head, huh?

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Nevermind that pretty much *all* laptops (including Elitebooks) are made in China or Taiwan.