This <$100 thing might be the most performant machine I own. 😆
Also, I've been experimenting a bit with #NomadBSD lately. It's not quite as polished as a Linux distro, but it's mighty nice! (Persistent #FreeBSD-based boot USB image, can do UFS or ZFS and optionally encrypt)
I picked falcon because it was old and a little beat up, but also very functional. rogueone because it was a bit of a rebellious device (a $200 ARM linux laptop!), and Excelsior was especially poignant because of an elegant, but unstable machine.
So the annoying thing about the T61 #Thinkpad is that it likes to ventilate continuously and noisily. It’s always kinda hot compared to modern devices. Cats like it.
At first I thought the HD was grinding on something before I remembered it’s a SSD and the noise comes from the fan. Same on #Haiku and #Linux.
The very loud and annoying fan in my #Thinkpad is constantly on, despite no heat, no load, no dust, no manual fan control, nothing. Even when the device sleeps (suspend to RAM). Am I holding it wrong?
A little window into Brazil: #Thinkpad T61 seller (a shop) sent me a short video of it working over WhatsApp just for me (it says my name at start !).
I guess the idea is to prove it all worked when they sent it in case the customer complains. Still for a ~100$ item from 2006 that’s a lot of care. Tests sound, keyboard etc. (Sure 100$ here doesn’t mean the same as in Switzerland)
It's surprisingly difficult to find options for laptops shipping #Fedora or any other supported non-ChromeOS flavor of #Linux from the #Lenovo website.
The option definitely exists if you happen to know a model that supports it and take the time to hunt and peck for the option, but this is definitely a regression in the experience.
@thefossguy What I was really hunting for when I started down this rabbit hole is if the #ThinkPad T14 Gen 6 supports #Fedora with the new Qualcomm #ARM offering.
So far, I've yet to find info either way on that one.
I'm finally "reconditioning" the latest unused #ThinkPad X1 carbon from the extended household, a 2017 gen. (I'm still using the 2012 gen as it leaves nothing to be desired.)
Really there's nothing to do, it only needs a battery replacement. So the challenge begins: find a seller that ships to Finland; read the tea leaves to guess the reliability; wait a month or two for delivery from China; use the battery enough to find any obvious faults, but not so long that it's too late to return it.
The efficiency boost is honestly mind blowing. And that is with so many keystrokes to wrap my head around. Absolutely worth the money and lets me work at least four times as fast as with the previous setups.
Would I have liked to keep on using Linux? Yes but at this point if one is doing more than just browsing the web and reading E-Mails it is very hard to recommend.
The #thinkpad t42 SSD arrived, so I installed it, got dos 6.22 working and now win3.11. Office 4.3 is blazing fast. Only issue is no power management so the fan is on full pelt.
Wenn man ein MacBook Air hat (geiler Sound) und dann den Sound aus einem #Thinkpad für 2K Euro hört, dann ist es doch normal, dass man spontan heult, weil der Ton vom Thinpkad so unfassbar schlecht ist, oder?
I'm looking to replace my family's laptop used mostly for web browsing, word processing, and making sure my cross platform apps work. I have a Framework Laptop 16 AMD Ryzen in pre-order which is supposed to ship next month.
Would a Surface Pro 9 or a Thinkpad X13s be a good choice for this use case?