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I bought a used ThinkPad T430 more than a year ago. I can't tell you exactly how much I paid for it because I don't recall the price in dollars (I paid it in Ar
by ericol 6y ago
I bought a used ThinkPad T430 more than a year ago. I can't tell you exactly how much I paid for it because I don't recall the price in dollars (I paid it in Argentinian pesos).
It's a little battered (The case is broken in couple of places, the track pad is worn out).
The only complain I have about it is (2, actually, so "are") that you can't pump the memory that much (16 GB max) and the low resolution of the screen.
Besides that, I think it's an incredible piece of hardware.
Right now, I'm running Debian 10 with 16 GB of memory and a 1 TB SSD. I think it's very likely that I'll extract at least another 5 years of work of this one.
It comes with Bluetooth (Works with Debian), and I managed to make even the fingerprint reader work with this OS.
- pessimizer 6y agoJust making sure you're aware of https://1vyra.in/ https://1vyra.in/ It allows you to (soft)flash a custom bios, mainly to kill the stupid wlan whitelist.
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoI'm starting to think low resolution is an advantage if you want to run Linux. Out of the three major OS choices Linux comes in last in terms of high-dpi support.
- grafporno 6y agoHave the same one, get the docking station for it, it's dirt cheap on ebay (~10€) and you can hook up 3 monitors to it, if two of same have the same resolution (2x DisplayPort + 1x VGA).