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I taught myself how to do CAD in SolveSpace. I wrote papers and presentations in LibreOffice. I did a bunch of PDF/image editing in GIMP to clean up the lousy scans one of my professors gave us every week to read from. It wasn't perfect with DrRacket - I had to close and reopen every half hour as memory usage increased - but it worked, and then I realized I could just use `gracket` or `racket`. Unsurprisingly, it was fine for doing assignments in Python and C. I actually didn't use my T430 at all that school year, because the X40 worked fine for everything I was doing. It worked great for me, and did everything I needed or wanted it to do. (For the record, my X40 had an ultra-low voltage Pentium M Dothan running at 1.1 GHz.) (I didn't have to do that, I had a perfectly-good Thinkpad T430, but I wanted to give the X40 a good try.) After putting a 32GB CompactFlash card in, installing Debian, and increasing the RAM to 1GB, I started using it as my primary computer. In fall of 2016 (the start of my senior year of university), I bought a Thinkpad X40 for $40.
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Really wish Sony was still in the laptop game. Battery life was never very good, the machine is pretty much useless if I am not near a plug.
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The manual "wireless" switch no longer deactivates wifi/BT. The (very minor) cons of this 10-year old laptop: Blu-Ray drive no longer works. Does anyone prefer the Win 10 UI over Aero? I really, really, can't understand Microsoft's strategy in removing so many of the good things about Win 7.
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Compared to a 2015-era Dell Latitude running Win10 Pro, it is more stable (Chrome crashes regularly on Win10, seems 8gb RAM is not enough for Win10), better touchpad (new ones lack edge scrolling), quieter & less active fan, way less behind-the-scenes activity (updates, unwanted services, malware checks, etc), Aero's look & feel is so much better than Win10. Yes I've upgraded RAM and added an SSD (both upgradable without opening the case).īest part of my VAIO: it runs Win7 Pro. Upgraded to USB 3.0 via the PC Card slot (eSATA too).
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This comment is written on a 2009 VAIO FW-4xx series w/big beautiful 16.4-inch FullHD screen, HDMI, dual-band wifi, SD slot, VGA, Bluetooth, dedicated GPU.