For a guy who uses computers as much as I do, you would think that I would have better machines at home. But really, no. Our last desktop was eight years old before we replaced it. My laptop was an old Thinkpad X31 – maybe six or seven years old. So, for a combination birthday/Christmas present, I got a new (sort of) laptop. I picked up a refurbished thinkpad X200s from the Lenovo outlet. So far it’s a nice machine: good processor, lots of high speed memory, and a big LED backlit screen. Lenovo sent me notice that they were shipping the laptop today and the next thing I knew, it arrived at the office. The advantages of working 5 miles from the outlet. The only problem is that they didn’t ship all of the parts. I’ve contacted them and they’ll send the dock/dvd.
When I got the machine home, I spent about a minute trying to decide if I would keep a partition with Windows on it. But then I remembered that I don’t play video games, so I didn’t really need Vista. I’ve installed Fedora 11 and moved all my files.