Funny rant.  :)

As for this:
"Oh yeah, that f'in Fn key should never replace a ctrl in the bottom
left-most corner.  It infuriates me to almost throw it across a room."
Completely agree.  But I've found BIOS settings that can swap the Fn and
Ctrl key functions.  You should take a look around in there and see if you
can find that.

Cheers.


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From: plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org
[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Michael Butash
Sent: Wednesday, October 7, 2015 22:04
To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
Subject: Re: What is your system advice? Solved.

My current customer threw me a t440 with a dock to use internally.  
Decent - light, but sorely underpowered.

I slaughter 8gb of ram on the t440 with win7 seemingly like nothing, and the
i5 proc will haaaaaaang visio forever doing complex edits of groups of
shapes for sometimes 30sec.  Windoze is still a pig I think, maybe the
hardware would be ok with linux.  I ended up jiving a virtual image out of
them, and simply run it on my linux dell e7240 on the road or desktop as
another vm under parent ubuntu, works wayyy better than that
i5 t440 lenovo does native.

The screen was total low-def crap too on it.  Not sure if it was just the
working econo-class laptop for employee drones, but anything less than 1080p
on a 12" or bigger laptop should be scorned and made fun of.  
With my vbox vm fo the corp image, I give it 3 virtual monitors I run full
screen across 3 monitors, and even win7 runs great under linux in virt with
all their bitlocker, virus scanning, with the bloated microsoft os.  I have
to give it 12gb of my 32 to keep it happy though, causing me to oom more
than a few times in my parent system.

Before buying my dell, I looked at lenovo, and wasn't terribly impressed to
find a powerful, lightweight laptop with a docking station.  With dell I
found I could get a 12" 1920x1080 touch screen laptop, backlit keyboard,
16gb of ram, i7 (ulv, dual-core, meh), dp/hdmi out, and even with the crappy
intel video runs ubuntu great.

The t440 sits on a desk now, I'm not at all impressed with it, at least with
windoze on it, but the screen makes it a non-starter at all.

Oh yeah, that f'in Fn key should never replace a ctrl in the bottom
left-most corner.  It infuriates me to almost throw it across a room.  
They really need to make a not-lame keyboard option.

-mb



On 10/07/2015 10:43 AM, Nathan England wrote:
> I have a T500 that I bought years ago. I begged and begged and Lenovo 
> support sent me the better hard-backed keyboard which I promptly 
> replaced. It was originally a core 2 duo 2.8GHz with 4GB of ram and a 
> 160GB 7200 rpm drive.
>
> The fan went out a week after the warranty ended and I never had the 
> extra 60 bucks to replace it, so it has lived on with the dual cores 
> disabled in bios and powermanagement forcing it to run at 800MHz.
>
> I replaced the hard drive with a Samsung 840 Pro SSD and still use it 
> with a single core at 800 and that laptop is faster than HP zBook with 
> a fancy new core i7 and 16GB of ram. Well, it was until I put the same 
> SSD in the zBook... but that's a different story.
>
> Long live Lenovo Thinkpads!
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