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15 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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23 <div class="title">Thank you Thinkpad X41, for your long and trustworthy service</div>
24 <div class="date">19th January 2013</div>
25 <div class="body"><p>This Christmas my trusty old laptop died. It died quietly and
26 suddenly in bed. With a quiet whimper, it went completely quiet and
27 black. The power button was no longer able to turn it on. It was a
28 IBM Thinkpad X41, and the best laptop I ever had. Better than both
29 Thinkpads X30, X31, X40, X60, X61 and X61S. Far better than the
30 Compaq I had before that. Now I need to find a replacement. To keep
31 going during Christmas, I moved the one year old SSD disk to my old
32 X40 where it fitted (only one I had left that could use it), but it is
33 not a durable solution.
34
35 <p>My laptop needs are fairly modest. This is my wishlist from when I
36 got a new one more than 10 years ago. It still holds true.:)</p>
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38 <ul>
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40 <li>Lightweight (around 1 kg) and small volume (preferably smaller
41 than A4).</li>
42 <li>Robust, it will be in my backpack every day.</li>
43 <li>Three button mouse and a mouse pin instead of touch pad.</li>
44 <li>Long battery life time. Preferable a week.</li>
45 <li>Internal WIFI network card.</li>
46 <li>Internal Twisted Pair network card.</li>
47 <li>Some USB slots (2-3 is plenty)</li>
48 <li>Good keyboard - similar to the Thinkpad.</li>
49 <li>Video resolution at least 1024x768, with size around 12" (A4 paper
50 size).</li>
51 <li>Hardware supported by Debian Stable, ie the default kernel and
52 X.org packages.</li>
53 <li>Quiet, preferably fan free (or at least not using the fan most of
54 the time).
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56 </ul>
57
58 <p>You will notice that there are no RAM and CPU requirements in the
59 list. The reason is simply that the specifications on laptops the
60 last 10-15 years have been sufficient for my needs, and I have to look
61 at other features to choose my laptop. But are there still made as
62 robust laptops as my X41? The Thinkpad X60/X61 proved to be less
63 robust, and Thinkpads seem to be heading in the wrong direction since
64 Lenovo took over. But I've been told that X220 and X1 Carbon might
65 still be useful.</p>
66
67 <p>Perhaps I should rethink my needs, and look for a pad with an
68 external keyboard? I'll have to check the
69 <a href="http://www.linux-laptop.net/">Linux Laptops site</a> for
70 well-supported laptops, or perhaps just buy one preinstalled from one
71 of the vendors listed on the <a href="http://linuxpreloaded.com/">Linux
72 Pre-loaded site</a>.</p>
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75 <div class="tags">Tags: <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/debian">debian</a>, <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/tags/english">english</a>.</div>
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