Subj : Re: Partitions setup; good?
To   : paulie420
From : MeaTLoTioN
Date : Mon Aug 17 2020 18:58:22

On 17 Aug 2020, paulie420 said the following...
 
 pa> You know, in the 90s I was a DOS/Windows BBS guy... and then walked away
 pa> from computers to start my career.
 pa> Switched to ALL-Apple for the next couple decades, because I hadn't
 pa> learned things after the move away from DOS by the entire PC community..
 pa> While Apple was a great platform for me to enjoy computing and actually
 pa> do some powerful things, without investing the hours into learning the
 pa> platform, when I came back to BBSing a couple years ago, I was yearning
 pa> to be able to CONTROL my systems again..
 pa> 
 pa> Linux was a great choice. AND, I quickly learned that I could get away
 pa> with buying CHEAP, rock-solid ThinkPad machines that still had enough
 pa> pep to last for some time.

That's great to hear, yeah Mac's are quite nice to use, I have a 2012 MacBook
Pro that I still use sometimes for various stuff, my Thinkpad T440p is quite
a workhorse =)

 pa> As long as you're not into gaming, I still think a specced out ThinkPad
 pa> T420+ can do a lot of daily driving for the average user.

Before I built my desktop, I used to game on my T440p all the time, it has a
Nvidia GTX 980 GPU i think in it and would happily run CS:GO or Portal /
Portal 2 etc, any number of games that I threw at it lol. GTA 5 is great too
on it.

 pa> This weekend, I got a dead ThinkPad working again (It was the trackpad...
 pa> which causes the LCD to be dead to the world when plugged in, and
 pa> sometimes gives an 8-beep POST similar to a motherboard failure. It
 pa> WASN'T - thank gosh I kept digging..) But anyway, they are easy to work
 pa> on, upgradeable and China still has every part you might need. (I
 pa> ordered a new keyboard bezel, it'll be here in a couple weeks.) 
 pa> 
 pa> They are tanks.

Hey that's really useful to know. If my TP ever does that I will look to the
trackpad first.

Nice job man.

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