New acquisition: ThinkPad X220

Sun, 25 May 2014 19:15:10 +0000

Recently I was looking for a laptop: the previous one I had (an Asus EeePC 900) was almost dead (the fan broke, and the idea of dismantling everything to get to it wasn’t appealing).

When looking around, I had the following requirements:

It needed to run on Linux well. No exceptions.
_Portable: _ at home and at my workplace I have rather powerful machines, so a desktop replacement was not needed.

New PC, at last

Sat, 13 Sep 2008 21:24:35 +0000

All right, it didn’t quite turn out as I had expected. This post wasn’t “soon"as I predicted originally. The reason? The fact that the video card I bought died after three days of usage, and getting a replacement took a while. Finally though, I have a functional system. It’s a Core 2 Duo CPU (7200) with 2 Gb of RAM and an ATI Radeon 3870 HD video card.

I installed Linux on it, of course, but instead of Kubuntu I gave openSUSE a try. It’s quite polished, although I had to go through some hoops to enable font hinting, especially in Firefox (not that I use that browser a lot, but I still need it for some things). I’ll be keeping Kubuntu on the Eee, as there’s a larger community for customization.

Hardware on dennogumi.org

New acquisition: ThinkPad X220

New PC, at last