Tag Archives: Thinkpad T30

Starting today, I’m a sophomore

School started for real today, but still it’s actually surprisingly calm. The first lecture in Numeric Analysis started at 1500 today, and we warmed up with some new definitions and methods of thinking. Having only worked with exact math before, none of us are too proficient in numeric thinking and calculation. The web-based course from [...]

Memory slot updates

I have recieved a few e-mails about the progress since my last post about the Thinkpad T30 memory issues. I went to the electronics workshop to check up what they would charge for resoldering the motherboard slots. Since they have hourly rates around 300 SEK/hour (~32€/hour) the price would land on either 300 or 700 [...]

Frizon 2006; Laptop

Frizon, Sweden’s largest christian musical festival, located south of Örebro, starts on Wednesday. With several thousand people meet to sing and listen to great bands, it is definitely something I look forward to. I bought my ticket today, and I luckily got hold of a “food ticket”, which grants me two meals a day during [...]

My new laptop

I bought an IBM T30 a week ago from a person in Stockholm. It is a 1.8 GHz Pentium4-M computer with 512 MB of memory and wireless networking. The Thinkpad is a very solid computer, and the week I have been using it I’m becoming more and more impressed of its qualities. The only thing [...]

Looking for a laptop

I am currently in the search for a good laptop I can use on Elida and during my university studies. It cannot cost more than 5000 SEK (€ 550) and must be a reliable machine. I need a graphics card that Linux can utilize with 3d acceleration and at least 512 megabytes of memory. I [...]