blog/spending-money-on-thinkpads/spending-money-on-thinkpads.md (2310B)
1 %% 2 title: "Spending Money On Thinkpads" 3 date: "14-Oct-2023" 4 %% 5 6 # Spending money on thinkpads 7 8  9 10 For the last couple of years my country's currency has been facing a big 11 devaluation, in fact is one of the countries with the most inflation rate per 12 year in the world at the moment, I'm talking about Argentina. 13 14 I bought my first thinkpad back in October 2022, a thinkpad x200 for $27 which 15 had no charger, and the seller didn't knew if it worked. I bought a charger for 16 it, then did a full cleanup, installed an SSD, and it has been working 17 perfectly since then. (I posted an 18 [article](https://kloeckner.com.ar/blog/bought-a-thinkpad/bought-a-thinkpad.html) 19 on my blog back then) 20 21 As you can see in the above picture the story doesn't ends there, in fact I 22 bought more thinkpad products after that, since I was impressed by the build 23 quality of the x200, and also because I noticed that there is an active market 24 for them. 25 26 A while ago I started to ask myself why do I spend money on thinkpads, the main 27 reason of course is that this computers are so nice to tinker with, as an 28 Electronics Engineer student I enjoy disassembling this machines to take a look 29 at the design, and also to restore them into functionality, another reason and 30 related to the country situation, is that I buy thinkpads because I don't want 31 my money to lose value, because of the high inflation rate, and I think this is 32 a good justification, I love thinkpads but I also don't want my money to 33 **devaluate**, and this is one of the main things the current government want 34 you to do, spend money, this is what they achieve by emiting money, they 35 destroy the people saving capabilities, forcing them to spend money in things 36 to prevent their money to devaluate. 37 38 If we take for example the x200 that I bought first, I paid $8000 Argentine 39 Pesos for it, which was around US $27 back then, today the $8000 would be 40 equivalent to US $8, and it only passed a year. 41 42 Of course this story has a happy side too, always has; during the last 12 months 43 that I been a thinkpad owner I met people that also where into thinkpads, also 44 people asking me or amazed by the modular design of the thinkpads, and people 45 who listened to me when I explained to them why thinkpads are better that other 46 computers haha.