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Still rocking my T430s bought used on eBay about 6 years ago... the hobby community around these devices alone is worth the cost of ownership, especially when
by reasonabl_human 6y ago
Still rocking my T430s bought used on eBay about 6 years ago... the hobby community around these devices alone is worth the cost of ownership, especially when it comes to repair and Linux support.
Installed a community made eDP converter for 1080p screen upgrade and flashed custom EC firmware for 3rd party battery support, replaced a cracked palm rest and odds and ends for a few bucks on eBay etc all pretty easily thanks to great hardware documentation. With an ssd and decent ram it runs arch + gnome as well as my modern desktop does, but costs next to nothing to repair, is built like a tank, well supported in Linux and has a great keyboard. 10/10!
- ohazi 6y ago> replaced a cracked palm rest and odds and ends for a few bucks on eBay Heh. I did exactly this with my previous T520 after half a decade. I've been meaning to dig it out to play with coreboot, but haven't had time or desk space lately. Speaking of EC firmware -- one of the annoying aspects of the T480 dual-battery system is that the switchover point is fixed at 5%. It would be nice to be able to set this to something like 20% for better battery longevity. I don't really want to do firmware experiments on a system that I'm using as a daily driver, but at some point it would be nice to try and hack around this, assuming someone doesn't beat me to it.