@gustav I came down the stairs from the roof with my T450s I bought refurbished with "no money".
It simply works, as of now I have installed #debian, #devuan, #lubuntu and #ubuntuStudio (that's #KDE) and except sleeping tab shortcut that doesn't exist anymore but I probably could code, something I haven't tried yet, everything works out of the box. I always get myself IBM->lenovo refurbished unites at the value around 200 USD for two decades now and they do it at for least 4 years before something happens. And I'm a heavy user that doesn't treat his hardware well and lives in "dire" mediteranean to subtropical conditions.
On this lap right now I managed to sit on top once, with as small cushin in between for some time, around 5 to 15 minutes (?). The screen went black. I restart it and it worked well again. These are salesman laptops that were developed for over two decades by IBM. And there is even a linux thinkpad wiki because coding community always went for them. Even debian brings extra thinkpad tweaks in it's repos.
It has two bats, one you can change by opening the laptop with screws, and one you can just switch out. That means you can perform a battery change will the laptop is in use and the "external" battery is low. The cheapest in the market right now come with BIOS locked, I guess salesman from big companies that had bios locked by default and passwords got lost. I wonder if that does really matter for a linux installation. Maybe. The other point is that they could be accessed over the net and reset perhaps, at least in theory. Some wake over LAN setting perhaps?
I will have to test the #SIMcard slot still and am right now learning #ADB to use android screen share as for my net access I have a cellphone on the roof top, th only place where there is decent cell tower coverage, and I can't place call's other wise while bluetooth hand free let's me take calls.
I live on 12v off grid installation. This laptop is around second or third less energy consumption in it's league as for I could find out on the net.
btw
I never liked kde linux because it's relatively heavy and slow, went actually from XFCE to LXQT over time, yet the actual kubuntu studio works smooth and fine.
I'm german, the IBM T42 and T420 I had before felt like "made in germany". This now feels like designed in germany made in china.
It's lightweight and nice.
I preferred the laptop lamp instead of the actual keyboard light from underneath. That and the sleep button (F7 ?) is the only thing I's change to the versions before perhaps. And while writing I realize I should turn the windows button into a sleeping mode short cut button. Sleeping mode of course works from the standard option in the UI.
#lenovo #IBM #laptop #review #hacking
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