New(ish) thinkpad børked on me

"CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist)" (ccpbb) 05/14/2015 at 23:07 • Filed to: Thinkpad nightmare

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I bought a thinkpad T60 from Nibby, and the SSD has mysteriously børked on me. It says 2100 HDD initialization failure. I’m thinking about installing Mac OS X on it, probbaly lion or Mavericks. Thoughts?

It was running windows XP before, and My main laptop is running windows 8.1. I’ve used various builds of windows 7, kali Linux (I suprisingly liked and didn’t like it), Ubuntu, and CrOs on my CR-48, which is immensely underpowered often suffers the brute of me changing OS’s.

MLGCarGuy > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 05/14/2015 at 23:13

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Time to do this.

Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 05/14/2015 at 23:13

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Have you tried turning it off...then back on again?

TheHondaBro > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 05/14/2015 at 23:16

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Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero > MLGCarGuy 05/14/2015 at 23:17

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Sam > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 05/14/2015 at 23:17

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I’m sure Nibby would be more than willing to sell you a replacement. hehehehe

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > Sam 05/14/2015 at 23:34

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I’m not trying to break Nibby’s balls nor will I. It’s a pretty common thing and I’m not returning it. I’m improving it.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 05/14/2015 at 23:35

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Several times, it’s apparently pretty common with thinkpads.

Sam > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 05/14/2015 at 23:37

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Oh I know. It isn’t something that he’s really responsible for. I’m tryin to make yokes.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 05/14/2015 at 23:51

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I wonder what driver support would be like for OSX. I’d guess next to non-existent.

Your boy, BJR > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 05/15/2015 at 00:06

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Maybe it's for the better it børked, before you saw anything that couldn't be unseen.

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > BaconSandwich is tasty. 05/15/2015 at 00:09

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http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/16… Suprisingly versus other laptops, the Thinkpads (older ones especially) have lots of community backing. I like that in a laptop, you can’t really get that any more, especially with a magnesium chassis laptop with drainage holes on the bottom..

CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) > Your boy, BJR 05/15/2015 at 00:10

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Laptop did not come with nibbybabes.

BaconSandwich is tasty. > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 05/15/2015 at 00:37

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Color me surprised! I never would have guessed.

1111111111111111111111 > Sampsonite24-Earth's Least Likeliest Hero 05/15/2015 at 01:07

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I’m halfway through a rewatch of the series.

1111111111111111111111 > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 05/15/2015 at 01:09

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Join windows 10 tech preview. Then if they don’t kick it down, bay the 100$.

promoted by the color red > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 05/15/2015 at 01:34

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Bro, do you even cable management?

Nibby > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 05/15/2015 at 08:33

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So sorry this happened. I have never had any issues with that machine.

There are some good guides out there about how to install hackintosh on it, but be aware that the Intel 4965AGN card doesn’t work with Hackintosh... in fact, no intel wireless cards do IIRC. I’d send you a spare wifi card for free, but...

of course, all the spare ones I have are Intels. :(

Nibby > CCC (formerly CyclistCarCoexist) 05/15/2015 at 08:43

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By the by, check out Stuart’s solution here.

http://superuser.com/questions/7340…