Lenovo Thinkpad T60 Resurrected with MX Linux

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demifiend
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Lenovo Thinkpad T60 Resurrected with MX Linux

#1 Post by demifiend »

Last night I resurrected a Lenovo ThinkPad T60 that I had bought on Ebay last December by replacing the dead battery, replacing the 160GB hard drive with a 1TB hard drive, and swapping out the original 512MB RAM modules with 3GB of new RAM.

Then I installed MX Linux 18.1, because I had it on a thumb drive I had used to salvage data off of a neighbor's PC before they wiped it and gave it to their grandson to tinker with. (I offered to install Linux for them, but apparently the kid's a gamer and insists on Windows.)

Everything went well, I got Emacs installed, and now I've got a badass old laptop. So does my wife; she got the T430s I had been using.

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ThinkPad T430s (8GB RAM, 1TB HDD)
ThinkPad T60 (3GB RAM, 512GB SSD)

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Re: Lenovo Thinkpad T60 Resurrected with MX Linux

#2 Post by jonnken »

...awesome...great work!
Regards, jonnken...since Feb 2019
Dell Latitude E6440...Intel Core i5-4310M...240G SSD...MX-19.4_x64
Dell Optiplex 755...Intel Core2 Duo E8500...300G HD...MX-19.4_x64

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Re: Lenovo Thinkpad T60 Resurrected with MX Linux

#3 Post by KBD »

Cool :) I love Thinkpads :)

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Re: Lenovo Thinkpad T60 Resurrected with MX Linux

#4 Post by Jerry3904 »

MX-18 runs really well on my T-60
Production: 5.10, MX-23 Xfce, AMD FX-4130 Quad-Core, GeForce GT 630/PCIe/SSE2, 16 GB, SSD 120 GB, Data 1TB
Personal: Lenovo X1 Carbon with MX-23 Fluxbox and Windows 10
Other: Raspberry Pi 5 with MX-23 Xfce Raspberry Pi Respin

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