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That said, I'm hoping that the dual-screen Lenovo Yogabook 9i does well in the market, so that Samsung finally does a dual-screen Windows tablet w/ an S-Pen.
Are there any guides to repurposing the removable "Serial UltraBay" which houses the CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives? I have a T430s, and I've been wanting to stick an SDR in that bay for years. But I'm not sure where to start, and I don't see many technical details about how it connects to the mobo on this wiki (admitted I didn't look too hard).
Are there any guides to repurposing the removable "Serial UltraBay" which houses the CD/DVD/Blu-ray drives? I have a T430s, and I've been wanting to stick an SDR in that bay for years. But I'm not sure where to start, and I don't see many technical details about how it connects to the mobo on this wiki (admitted I didn't look too hard).
It's essentially just SATA with some extra proprietary bits for adding a second battery there instead and a thingy to make it easier to pop out.
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It's essentially just SATA with some extra proprietary bits for adding a second battery there instead and a thingy to make it easier to pop out.
Oh cool, I didn't realize they made battery packs to fit in there. Have you ever seen a pinout listed anywhere?
I just bought a second hand T480 last week and installed Fedora in it. I'm loving it but the resolution 1336x768 is underwhelming.
I ended up going with a second hand T580 last year myself. It was a hard choice between the T480 or the T580, but I've been extremely happy with my decision. It's now maxed out with 64GB ram, and a second SSD in the WWAN slot. I'm running Debian Sid with ZFS root on it.
Initially I put CentOS on it, which was really broken, so I swapped in Fedora which worked great. The T580 is RHEL-certified (other models are Ubuntu-certified, so it's interesting you chose Debian for yours.) Eventually I reverted to Windows 10 and upgraded to Pro.
It's now my only home computer and daily driver, for work and personal both, for the time being.
The best thing is about travelling with a second-hand cheap Thinkpad is no one wants to steal them. Also it's a nice fuck you to consumerism IMHO.
My go to disposable laptop is now 2013-2017 macbook airs, they share the same MB/Battery/16:10 LCD and can parts swap any years to your heart's content.
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Oh cool, I didn't realize they made battery packs to fit in there. Have you ever seen a pinout listed anywhere?
For the battery portion I have no idea. For the SATA portion it's just literally the same connection as a SATA laptop optical drive.