IBM (Lenovo) Thinkpad T60

Preamble

I barely remember how I got this laptop; probably found dirt cheap on ebay and somehow managed to receive it here¹.

Back in 2023 I used this laptop for the Old Computer Challenge.

Hardware

Couple of years ago I’ve tried to upgrade it with a 64bit Core2Duo CPU but sadly the motherboard edition in this version of laptop does not support these processors. Would be a great x86-64 machine, but alas. Still cool that it is not soldered down to the motherboard here.

It has 2x2gb modules of RAM installed but because of chipset limitations only 3 gigabytes are usable, regardless of OS or using/not using PAE or anything else.

I love the 4x3 aspect ratio screen and the resolution always felt quite enough to me.

┌─────────────┬────────────────────────────┐
│ CPU         │ Intel Core Duo T2500 @2GHz │
│ GPU         │ Intel Mobile 945GM         │
│ RAM         │ 3Gb DDR2                   │
│ Display     │ 14" 1400x1050              │
│ Storage     │ 256gb SATA-3 SSD           │
└─────────────┴────────────────────────────┘

Software

I’ve used Debian Bookworm here the majority of time, but about a month ago installed 9front that works pretty great. The initial plan was to dive into this OS and I had a great time for couple of days, but then life got little bit hectic and I’m still trying to come back to it.

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