<p dir="ltr">I had a t520 when I was at IBM. Really nice chunk of hardware. The 530 will take up to 32G ram! Screens are really nice with the matt finish. Very stout, solid system. Have fun!</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jun 1, 2013 7:25 PM, "Charles Shapiro" <<a href="mailto:hooterpincher@gmail.com">hooterpincher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><div>Took delivery on my spankin' new Lenovo T530 Tuesday. I spent a good part of the day today messin' with it. I took great care never to boot it to Windows 7 Home Edition, even though I know I'll never get that part of my money back. Bastardi. After some fiddling with various liveCD distros, I loaded Debian Wheezy on her. She's now called "antling".<br>
<br>Wheezy meant I had to explicitly install a package to enable the evil proprietary wifi (Intel Centrino). I disabled the annoying touchpad in software in favor of the lovely Trackpoint ("nipple"). . Drilled a small hole in the case with my pocketknife so I could touch-find the <home> and <end> keys. Removed the "Lenovo Experience" and "Windows 7" stickers and threw them away.<br>
<br>I'm still kind of moving in:<br><br>apt-get install audacity<br>apt-get install emacs-23<br>apt-get install svn<br>apt-get install build-essentials<br>apt-get install git<br></div><div><br>This machine is blazin' fast compared to my old R50. Some of the amenities are pretty nice too: keyboard and screen lights, a switch to turn wifi completely off, speaker and mic mute buttons. Sleep seems to work jus' fine. I specifically ordered a machine without a built-in webcam. A picture for good luck ( <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/glantriff/8917203291/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/glantriff/8917203291/</a> ).<br>
<br></div>-- CHS<br><br></div>
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