[ale] Wow, that was pretty easy

[Derek Atkins]

I've got a T520 running Fedora.  It's a nice machine.
Alas, I think it will only take 8G of RAM.  (I'd love to be told I'm
wrong)

-derek

Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> writes:

> 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!
>
> On Jun 1, 2013 7:25 PM, "Charles Shapiro" <hooterpincher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>     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".
>    
>     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.
>    
>     I'm still kind of moving in:
>    
>     apt-get install audacity
>     apt-get install emacs-23
>     apt-get install svn
>     apt-get install build-essentials
>     apt-get install git
>    
>     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 ( http://www.flickr.com/photos/glantriff/8917203291/
>     ).
>    
>     -- CHS
>
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