You'll enjoy that Laptop a lot.  I just picked up a T420 myself a few 
weeks ago and everything works perfect right out of the box.  I did add 
8 gigs of ram for a total of 12Gig and installed a 240Gig mSATA SSD that 
I installed the system on and that's an addition to the 320 Gig spinning 
drive that I put /home on, and that made a huge difference in the speed 
of all the apps loading.

It's nice having a laptop that doesn't weigh a million pounds.  I picked 
it up so that I would have something light(er) to take to SCaLE, but I 
have to admit that I'm hauling it all over the place because of it's 
size (compared to the monsters that I usually use).

Brian Cluff

On 10/06/2015 04:02 PM, joe@actionline.com wrote:
> Thanks again for all the helpful input in response to my
> recent question: "What is your advice to update my system?"
>
> After much research, I finally decided that, for my needs, the best
> option was a used T420 Thinkpad. I've had excellent results with IBM
> Thinkpads and never had one fail. Now they are all Lenovo, of course; and
> I found one from a private party on Craigslist for $200 that looks
> absolutely brand new, like it has never been used, and with 8-Gb RAM.
>
> Lots of them on ebay for as little as $99 with no OS and priced all over
> the map up to $500 and even more.
>
> Now just need to flush the 500-gig hard drive and install Linux Mint and
> I should be good to go for the next 5 years or longer.
>
>
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