Finally ordered an used Thinkpad!
Finally ordered an used Thinkpad!
So.
After long time of.. desire.. I ordered an used T430, for a bit below 100 euro. It seemed in a good state, had SSD, and 1600x900 screen, so, seemed good enough for that price. Albeit no battery, but I don't need one.
Now I am excited, waiting. Though, still not sure, if I will slap NixOS on it, or maybe go wild, and maybe.. Guix, or OpenBSD.
And maybe I will use that as excuse to finally poke keyboard-oriented web browsers as well, e.g Nyxt, qutebrowser, but will see
Caan'tttt waittttt
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I had a W540 which I brought back from the dead and upgraded to the maximum (4th gen i7, NVIDIA QUADRO, 16GB DDR3, SSD). The only thing I wanted to do that I ultimately didn't was replace the display with one of the 3K ones that they made back then. Long story short I gave it away because I thought I was gonna go to college and wanted a lighter device with better battery life. In hindsight I didn't need the new machine. I miss my W540 a lot, and I sincerely hope you have fun with your T430.
Thanks, I am definitely going to have fun with it.. While, upgrading to quadcore i7 will wait a longer while, I might buy cheap used SSDs + adapter, and run 3 SSDs in RAIDZ1, just for the heck of it. Will it be practical? Probably no. Will it be fun? Hell yea.
Also, I hope, the person who got that W540, that they very much enjoyed it as well :D