by default, the fan will be stuck at a fixed rate (3300 RPM) without setup. This means that your laptop might be improperly cooled, leading to either overheating or overcooling, wasting precious battery power. I cannot be certain, as I use T430, not T420, and Linux Mint instead of vanilla Debian, b...

If it sells well they will keep the series and make classic thinkpad 2, 3, and so on, if it doesn't give enough profit, then they won't. It seems really as simple as that to me.

I have a laptop with the exactly same hardware and I use AntiX on it. AntiX is lightweight enough, but also large enough to have most of the things modern OS should have to be convenient for everyday use (albeit I don't use that laptop every day, rather every half a year).

How so? They only made these polls recently...

bhtooefr wrote:I'm wondering if the Retro won't come out until 2017-04-17 - the 25th anniversary of the ThinkPad.

Looks like a good date to set a release date for the project, but I guess it will also be affected by the CPU's release.

No. All the safety depends on a user Then why is it so easy to catch a virus on Windows and so difficult on Linux (to the point that users never catch any unless the software is specifically targeted at the individuals Have you already studied all source code your "safe" Linux based box ? The diffe...

What about using a virtual OS then? Use Linux and run Windows via such software? Have you tried that? https://www.virtualbox.org/ Maybe it would be more convenient than taking along two laptops with you. I am not sure about the performance of an emulated OS though (I have never used it), so test it ...

Why not just dual boot in this case? Use linux for everything but the applications you can't run on it?

I have T430 with eGPU (actually - have had, because I had to leave it in Poland when I was moving to China). It can run only in x1, and the performance loss depends on specific games (or rather their engines), you may want to check out my topic about it, it might give you an idea about the setup (li...

Could you help me out with buying this equipment? I want to order it within a country (that is China, as I'm living here now), but I'm not sure whom should I contact or where should I look to get this device.

Moreover, they don't sell a lot of such computers, so the price per unit is higher for them too. I support the idea, but as it has been already mentioned, it doesn't really have many advantages for an average user, so I will probably never get one. I do still think that it is important we have such ...

They say nothing, because they cancelled the project and do not want to piss the fans off

Don't get your hopes up. If they will announce an actual classic thinkpad, I'm pretty sure it is not going to be what you've been waiting for.

I get spikes to 95C in full load on my CPU in T430 as well. The CPU is made to withstand 105C, but it will never reach such temperature, as it will throttle down if needed (I think it happens around 95C too). I think from what I've seen what happens to my laptop is that when it reaches about 95C, th...

Thank you.

The official website of Lenovo says that T430 supports: Hard drive features 320 GB, 7200 rpm, 7mm high, SATA 3.0Gb/s 500 GB, 7200 rpm, 7mm or 9.5mm high SATA 3.0Gb/s 1 TB, 5400rpm, 9.5mm high SATA 3.0Gb/s Supports one additional hard drive which can be used concurrently to offer expanded storage in ...

sdi-p wrote:all Linuxs (or is that Linuxi?)

There is only one Linux, so the word does not have a plural form, I think.

Worth buying "Discrete NVIDIA NVS 5400M with Optimus Technology" and power management works well to get good and long runtime even with 9 cell battery? Nvidia has better performance, so if you want to play games, decode videos etc., then it might come in useful. If you get Nvidia, then you get both...

Workspaces This is one of the best things in linux in my opinion. Using a computer without them is a chore for me. They are extremely convenient and useful. They are the reason I won't be switching to anything else but continue to use KDE as it has the best developed workspaces of all DE (different...

I wrote a description about how particular games work on my setup: All of the games were tested on internal monitor in resolution 1600x900 and turned off antialiasing. Frames per second were counted by Steam. The graphic card used with the egpu setup was MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II. Windows 7 64bit...

Beautiful collection, good job.

I use CTRL+SPACE to turn on and off thinklight, I think the same is used for keyboard backlight. Right now I have option 1: thinklight on; and 2. thinklight off. Do I understand it correctly that if I have a backlit keyboard there will just be an additional 3. Thinklight off, backlight on?

If I replace my standard keyboard with a backlit one, will it work just fine? Do I need any software changes? I run linux, does it matter?

KDE 4. Definitely the best of them all for me. I liked Gnome 2 and Xfce too though, but they weren't as customizable and advanced.

All mobile Skylake CPUs and all CPUs of both X series and T4??s series are soldered as well - so what? Motherboards are known to be slightly less reliable than processors. High end processors are usually much more expensive than the motherboard alone. If you ever needed to replace the motherboard, ...

Yeah, don't even consider a 'Classic Thinkpad' at this point, it might just as well never be made.

Windows users will swallow everything Microsoft throws at them. They won't revoke privacy breaches, if you want to use new Windows, then accept 24/7 surveillance, it's "to improve your experience" after all.

It seems that the future looks good for external eGPUs: http://gizmodo.com/heres-the-box-that-c ... 1724958260

Consumer grade hardware is of poop quality, more news at 11.