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0 pointsagumonkey11y ago0 comments

I still like x61 a lot, not hard to find for less than 100$ on ebay. With the usual maximum ram + ssd upgrade you really have a neat little 4:3 rock solid machine. Most people buying ~600$ core i5 laptop will never reach the boot time and stability I get using *linux on this hardware. Next week I'll try x200/x201 family to see how better the cpu is (heat and battery life mostly).

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busterarm11y ago

Yep. I've got Arch (soon to be OpenBSD) on my 2nd-gen x100e and I put in an SSD and upgrade to the A/G/N wifi card. There are some quirks but it's a decent system. I'm ready to move on though. These have heat problems though and everyone I know with an x2XX has worse problems than I do.

Even with the $600 core i5s, it'd be getting the same OS. Hopefully they've switched to the newer Intel wifi cards because the Linux driver on the 5400AGN they were using has problems.

agumonkeyOP11y ago

Arch user here too. I see a lot of articles saying BSD is saner than linux, and you're tempting me even more to try it. If you ever write about it post the url here.

selectodude11y ago

I loved my X61 but I couldn't put up with how it sounded like it was going to take flight all the time.

agumonkeyOP11y ago

True, that's the main reason I try newer ones. If I was a gifted engineer I'd build a better heatsink so the fan would never kick in.

thrownaway242411y ago

I still have a x61 and a x220. I prefer the x220 obviously for being way faster and for having a giant Esc key (I use vim). Both totally solid. On the x61 I use tpfand and the fan almost never comes on.

agumonkeyOP11y ago

Thanks, I stopped looking for fan control, since I was more interested in underclocking. I'll try it right away.

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busterarm11y ago

Even with the $600 core i5s, it'd be getting the same OS. Hopefully they've switched to the newer Intel wifi cards because the Linux driver on the 5400AGN they were using has problems.

agumonkeyOP11y ago

Arch user here too. I see a lot of articles saying BSD is saner than linux, and you're tempting me even more to try it. If you ever write about it post the url here.

selectodude11y ago

I loved my X61 but I couldn't put up with how it sounded like it was going to take flight all the time.

agumonkeyOP11y ago

True, that's the main reason I try newer ones. If I was a gifted engineer I'd build a better heatsink so the fan would never kick in.

thrownaway242411y ago

agumonkeyOP11y ago

Thanks, I stopped looking for fan control, since I was more interested in underclocking. I'll try it right away.

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