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!
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IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad laptop enthusiasts!
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.
That's awesome, it's going to be a great notebook.
Very mint condition, congrats! Better dualboot it with Batocera for playin Retro games..
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.
What's the use case for a 9-year old Lenovo notebook? Not trying to be snarky, legitimately curious. Can it run Windows 10?
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.
that honestly sounds brutal
What distro are you using and why?
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.
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
Just realized that my first comment went on a week old discussion, oops :P
just got a t440p myself! the keyboard was broken so ill have to replace it but thats an easy fix
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.
F for the trackpad, but hopefully you can fix it. Thank you.