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I bought it from eBay. It is the best computer Ive had in a while, even tho is somewhat old. I love it.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lenovo makes awesome notebooks and the keyboards are great to type on. Id recommend swapping out the HDD for an SSD and upgrading the RAM if it only has 4GB to at least 8 or even 16 if it supports it. Probably cost you another $80 or so but it's well worth it, especially the SSD. GL with it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Already came with 8 gb of ram. I bought it without a hard drive so I just put an SSD there that I already had.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's awesome, it's going to be a great notebook.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Very mint condition, congrats! Better dualboot it with Batocera for playin Retro games..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, but can I run it on a virtual machine instead? I have a Raspberry Pi with Retropie where I have a big ROM collection, would be nice to play them with this nice laptop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, you can check on their wiki here. Seems easy to setup..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Nice, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What's the use case for a 9-year old Lenovo notebook? Not trying to be snarky, legitimately curious. Can it run Windows 10?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm running GNU/Linux on this thing, so far is extremely responsive and working great, even with my already configured OS. Honestly, since my previous old iMac died, this is the best computer I had for a while, I had to survive with Raspberry Pis and even older laptops.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

that honestly sounds brutal

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What distro are you using and why?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For now Ill be using Garuda, because I wanted to play things from steam and this one is already configured for that.

Maybe Ill use something else in the future.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It might surprise you but my main laptop is a 9yr old thinkpad, even tho I have newer ones. Of course it can run win10, I daily drive linux but occasionally use windows from a usb ssd enclosure (installed with winTousb). I bought it almost as a joke 4-5yrs ago, but upgrade after upgrade (the screen especially which was crap) it became too good to replace lol

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Just realized that my first comment went on a week old discussion, oops :P

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

just got a t440p myself! the keyboard was broken so ill have to replace it but thats an easy fix

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's a beautiful machine! I just fixed up a T440p and I love it, but I broke the clip that holds the trackpad ribbon so now I have no trackpad.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

F for the trackpad, but hopefully you can fix it. Thank you.