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"I'm sitting on a second hand 2008 circa Lenovo T400 and have a spare one in the cupboard. I'm sitting on a second hand 2008 circa Lenovo T400 and have a spare
by keithpeter 13y ago
"I'm sitting on a second hand 2008 circa Lenovo T400 and have a spare one in the cupboard. I'm sitting on a second hand 2008 circa Lenovo T400 and have a spare one in the cupboard."
Do you boot up the spare one now and again or have you simply removed the battery and bagged it? Just interested as I'm considering a similar move with X series Thinkpads.
- csmithuk 13y agoIt gets booted up every 3 months or so to apply windows updates so it's ready to roll if this one fails. If it does, I'll repair this one as they're pretty easy to fix even with massive failures. I've got another T61 running FreeBSD which gets used regularly as well. The battery is removed and placed in a box. It's a second hand 9-cell battery with 12 recharge cycles (Paid £20 for it!) so it's been charged to 80% and will be maintained at that where possible. I've investigated rebuilding the packs as well in the future and it's not impossibly difficult. I'd definitely go for it. There is a vacuum of quality hardware now. Even the latest Lenovo T/X series are cruddy machines. I'll go back to desktops if the situation doesn't improve by 2020.
- keithpeter 13y ago"I'll go back to desktops if the situation doesn't improve by 2020." I hope to be using a dockable phone then with a mechanical switch keyboard and a monitor the size of a window... we shall see. Thanks.
- csmithuk 13y agoIf that happens, I'm in :)