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It's been years since I think about getting a small thinkpad.
All in all, they're tough little second hand machines with large batteries. And you can easily repair them since you can find parts about everywhere.
My huge gaming laptop with its 17“ screen is great for a load of things. But not for being easy to move around. My old 13” Macbook on the other side is easy to move everywhere but is far too old to run anything recent with its core2duo CPU.
So when someone proposed to sell me a X240 on mastodon, I just accepted.
The computer has seen better days but it's cheap and since I'm going to use it mainly as a small “on the road” machine…
CPU is a i5-4300U with 8Gb RAM, it has the standard 1366x768px 12.5“ thinkpad screen with some rubbing marks on it from the keyboard, a QWRETZ keyboard with a missing 'I' key (replaced with the '^' key), some scratches on the case and a bunch of stickers on the back of the screen.
It came with windows 10 on the SSD.
As soon as I get more storage space, I'll put fedora as a dual boot. I want to be able to run natively some softwares.
Why fedora ? Because I've been using it for a while on other computers, I'm starting to get used to it. And it works well.
I'd like to install (in no particular order) :
Some of those parts are pricey but I don't need to buy them all immediately, the computer work as-is.
I could probably buy the official “M.2 extension” allowing to install a second SSD under the battery if I want to make it a huge mobile data storage.
Ce fut finalement la première upgrade matérielle de cet ordi. Le SSD prend la place réservée au modem LTE/4G. Il doit être au format NGFF M.2 2242…
Format qui n'est plus très courant à l'heure actuelle puisque on est quasi exclusivement au format NVME sur les machines récentes.
Donc je me suis tourné vers ce qui était dispo et Orico m'a sauvé les miches. Un petit SSD de 1To dans le bazar ça va envoyer du steack. Ca a pris approx 3 minutes pour l'installation physique. Et j'ai installé fedora directement dans la foulée.
Et hop, j'ai un tout piti laptop dualboot windows/fedora.
J'ai pas acheté de nouveau clavier, juste réorganisé les touches pour en faire un azerty. Ouais je “touch type” la plupart du temps, mais avec les troubles dys*, ça m'aide quand même d'avoir un minimum de touches renseignées.
Après avoir jeté un œil sur les prix pratiqués pour les cabochons de touches (en moyenne 5€/pièce), ça serait rentable de commander un clavier complet à 37€ fdpin.
Achat déjà faits dans :
J'ai récupéré ma vieille logitech mx anywhere et l'ai appairée en bluetooth. Comme ça, pas besoin de dongle (avec seulement 2 ports USB dispo, c'est utile).
Faudrait que j'investisse dans un petit hub USB et dans un câble mini displayport vers HDMI