So the annoying thing about the T61 #Thinkpad is that it likes to ventilate continuously and noisily. It’s always kinda hot compared to modern devices. Cats like it.
At first I thought the HD was grinding on something before I remembered it’s a SSD and the noise comes from the fan. Same on #Haiku and #Linux.
The very loud and annoying fan in my #Thinkpad is constantly on, despite no heat, no load, no dust, no manual fan control, nothing. Even when the device sleeps (suspend to RAM). Am I holding it wrong?
A little window into Brazil: #Thinkpad T61 seller (a shop) sent me a short video of it working over WhatsApp just for me (it says my name at start !).
I guess the idea is to prove it all worked when they sent it in case the customer complains. Still for a ~100$ item from 2006 that’s a lot of care. Tests sound, keyboard etc. (Sure 100$ here doesn’t mean the same as in Switzerland)
@faizalr yeah I know for example my cheap Samsung 4K TV doesn’t make clear doubled pixels when using 1080P despite being exactly half in both axes so I am not sure it’d work on a laptop either . Probably not.
I'm finally "reconditioning" the latest unused #ThinkPad X1 carbon from the extended household, a 2017 gen. (I'm still using the 2012 gen as it leaves nothing to be desired.)
Really there's nothing to do, it only needs a battery replacement. So the challenge begins: find a seller that ships to Finland; read the tea leaves to guess the reliability; wait a month or two for delivery from China; use the battery enough to find any obvious faults, but not so long that it's too late to return it.
The efficiency boost is honestly mind blowing. And that is with so many keystrokes to wrap my head around. Absolutely worth the money and lets me work at least four times as fast as with the previous setups.
Would I have liked to keep on using Linux? Yes but at this point if one is doing more than just browsing the web and reading E-Mails it is very hard to recommend.
@WestphalDenn Hast Du das auf englisch aufgesetzt, damit Leasey richtig funktioniert. Brian Hartgen sagte mir, dass er davon ausgeht, dass Leasey nur mit englischem JAWS funktioniert.
@WestphalDenn I just bought a #Lenovo#Legion9 and had the opposite experience.
I keep hearing people say things about #Linux v #Windows which aren't true, and in a recent discussion they turned out to be out of date opinions from someone not using it.
Obviously you were, but I take issue that it's only good for basic tasks. I do all sorts and it just gets better while Windows degrades and spys.
W11 cursor was jerky, sending all cicks home. Noticeably faster when I switched to #Ubuntu 24.
The #thinkpad t42 SSD arrived, so I installed it, got dos 6.22 working and now win3.11. Office 4.3 is blazing fast. Only issue is no power management so the fan is on full pelt.
Wenn man ein MacBook Air hat (geiler Sound) und dann den Sound aus einem #Thinkpad für 2K Euro hört, dann ist es doch normal, dass man spontan heult, weil der Ton vom Thinpkad so unfassbar schlecht ist, oder?
@1337core
Apple: "Let's find a manufacturer that makes really banging good speakers and integrate them into our devices!"
Lenovo: "Hey, Harman! We need two speakers. They must fit between a battery, the main board and the connector panel. You got 8 weeks and the price point is $2..."