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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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  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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