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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">The Thinkpad is dead, long live the Thinkpad X230</div>
  24       <div class="date"> 4th July 2013</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>Half a year ago, I reported that I had to find a replacement for my
  26 trusty old Thinkpad X41.  Unfortunately I did not have much time to
  27 spend on it, but today the replacement finally arrived.  I ended up
  28 picking a <a href="http://www.linlap.com/lenovo_thinkpad_x230">Thinkpad
  29 X230</a> with SSD disk (NZDAJMN).  I first test installed Debian Edu
  30 Wheezy as a roaming workstation, and it worked flawlessly.  As I write
  31 this, it is installing what I hope will be a more final installation,
  32 with a encrypted hard drive to ensure any dope head stealing it end up
  33 with an expencive door stop.</p>
  34
  35 <p>I had a hard time trying to track down a good laptop, as my most
  36 important requirements (robust and with a good keyboard) are never
  37 listed in the feature list.  But I did get good help from the search
  38 feature at <ahref="http://www.prisjakt.no/">Prisjakt</a>, which
  39 allowed me to limit the list of interesting laptops based on my other
  40 requirements.  A bit surprising that SSD disk are not disks, so I had
  41 to drop number of disks from my search parameters.</p>
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  43 <p>I am not quite convinced about the keyboard, as it is significantly
  44 wider than my old keyboard, and I have to stretch my hand a lot more
  45 to reach the edges.  But the key response is fairly good and the
  46 individual key shape is fairly easy to handle, so I hope I will get
  47 used to it.  My old X40 was starting to fail, and I really needed a
  48 new laptop now. :)</p>
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  50 <p>I look forward to figuring out how to turn off the touch pad.</p>
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