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Yay! When my laptop gets back from being fixed it's going on (now is a good time to get the ISO over bittorrent - there will be many, many seeders). Download

Yay! When my laptop gets back from being fixed it's going on (now is a good time to get the ISO over bittorrent - there will be many, many seeders). Download link (wrong in article?!) - http://software.opensuse.org/131 http://software.opensuse.org/131 (Incidentally, do X series thinkpads still have the plug at the back? It switched from the side somewhere between X60 and X220, and if it's at the back it gets bent every time you pick the laptop up from the front - mine failed last week...)

hennevogel 13y ago
DOH! Fixed the download link. Thanks :-)
loudmax 13y ago
My X230 has the plug in the back. I'm careful when I pick up my laptop. It's a really stupid design decision, exacerbated by the shape of the plug. Otherwise I love my Thinkpad and it's Linux-friendly hardware.
- andrewcooke 13y ago
  i thought i was careful too... fyi, when it fails you likely won't notice and the battery will run down. at that point it will appear completely dead. the way to test (obvious in retrospect) is to wiggle the plug and hold it at various angles - at some angle it will work. then, at least here in chile, a support centre can fix it.
bluedino 13y ago
Not sure why it's been 7 years since the Magsafe debuted on the MacBook Pro and every laptop doesn't use a similar power cord by now. So many laptops are broken (but fixable) by DC jacks breaking.
- edoloughlin 13y ago
  Only another 13 to wait, then (assuming the patents were filed after 1998).
- jamiek88 13y ago
  Yes, typical Apple really, one of those ideas that seem bloody obvious in hindsight, yet they are the only ones doing it. Prob got a patent of some sort on it. Looking forward to trying to get this running on my mid 2011 MBA, its currently running Ubuntu and works very well.
  - girvo 13y ago
    They did patent it, yeah.
- selectodude 13y ago
  http://www.google.com/patents/US7311526 http://www.google.com/patents/US7311526 There you go.
abrowne 13y ago
The X240 has the charger port on the left side, since it has an Apple-style drop hinge so the display covers the back. http://laptoping.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X240.jpg http://laptoping.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Lenovo-Think...

hennevogel 13y ago

DOH! Fixed the download link. Thanks :-)

loudmax 13y ago

My X230 has the plug in the back. I'm careful when I pick up my laptop. It's a really stupid design decision, exacerbated by the shape of the plug. Otherwise I love my Thinkpad and it's Linux-friendly hardware.

andrewcooke 13y ago
i thought i was careful too... fyi, when it fails you likely won't notice and the battery will run down. at that point it will appear completely dead. the way to test (obvious in retrospect) is to wiggle the plug and hold it at various angles - at some angle it will work. then, at least here in chile, a support centre can fix it.

bluedino 13y ago

Not sure why it's been 7 years since the Magsafe debuted on the MacBook Pro and every laptop doesn't use a similar power cord by now. So many laptops are broken (but fixable) by DC jacks breaking.

edoloughlin 13y ago
Only another 13 to wait, then (assuming the patents were filed after 1998).
jamiek88 13y ago
Yes, typical Apple really, one of those ideas that seem bloody obvious in hindsight, yet they are the only ones doing it. Prob got a patent of some sort on it. Looking forward to trying to get this running on my mid 2011 MBA, its currently running Ubuntu and works very well.
- girvo 13y ago
  They did patent it, yeah.
selectodude 13y ago
http://www.google.com/patents/US7311526 http://www.google.com/patents/US7311526 There you go.

abrowne 13y ago

The X240 has the charger port on the left side, since it has an Apple-style drop hinge so the display covers the back. http://laptoping.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Lenovo-ThinkPad-X240.jpg http://laptoping.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Lenovo-Think...