User:BDKMPSS

my ThinkPad Workstation

ThinkPad X31 (Model: 2672-C2G) running Debian Testing

Default Features

• Intel Pentium M 1.4
• 256 MB PC2100
• 40GB Hitachi HDD
• Intel 10/100 Ethernet controller (PXE boot enabled)
• CDC slot with Modem Daughter Card (MDC)
• MiniPCI slot with Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 3B Mini PCI Adapter

Changed/Upgraded to/with:

• 2 GB DDR 400 RAM (Kingston KVR400X64SC3A/1G) running at 266MHz
• 120 GB Hitachi TravelStar 4K120 (HTS421212H9AT00)
• Intel Pro/Wireless 2915 ABG MiniPCI card
• Modem Daughter Card (MDC) removed
• PXE boot via Bios disabled
• newest BIOS/EC-Frimware (3.02/1.08)

why I have chosen/stick to this very model

I think this is may the last Thinkpad purchase I ever made, not because I don't like it, actually I love it, but I don't like the "newer ones" (ThinkPad X40 and higher).

For me this this very model was/is the (second) last perfect one, so I never got a newer one and the last known good, the X32, is not a update which is really enhancing. My X31 is very solid, ultraportable and fast enough for the "office" stuff I do with it.

This is partly may also featured by the newer ones, but I miss some things of my X31 very much on them:

• the port-layout is much better than the "newer one". I hate ports on the sides especially on the right one, and all newer ones have all ports there...
• the LCD cover with this thick, wide, "salient" borders is absolutely robust and "unbreakable". Or at least feels like this ;)
• the overall case feels much better engineered, like I could walk over it without doing any damage, the newer ones just don't feel like this (no I am not going to try it)
• its one of the last fully IBM crafted ones, as I am not comfortable with this strange 3rd party manufacturing outsourcing somewhere in deeper China witch started right after the X31 was constructed
• Even if it first seemed like Lenovo could keep up the "legendary" quality, or even increase it to the old "pre-outsourcing" level, it now seems like this was wishful thinking

things related to (my) ThinPads I am currently on

I am currently start to build my own "Debian Testing on the X31"-how to, leaving the "simple installation", but aiming at the configuration.