User:BDKMPSS

my ThinkPad Workstation

ThinkPad X31(2672-C2G) running Debian Testing

Standard Features

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

Upgraded with/to:

• 1GB DDR 266 RAM (2x512MB), thinking about upgrading to 2GB
• 120 GB Hitachi TravelStar 4K120 (HTS421212H9AT00)
• Modem Daughter Card (MDC) removed

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 are a build in "anti pen" feature, nothing can slip in and the cover 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 Lenovo

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 is aimed at the configuration.

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