So it's been KIND OF A RABBIT HOLE gang.
Fell on a thinkpad meme one month ago on tiktok. I was like "damn that's funny".
I did not know anything about computers, nor linux, nor privacy, fully using my gmail on every gafam apps imaginable.
And here I am now, having gone full degooglelized writing on that t440p I bought for 40 euros that I brought back to life only using locally bought used hardware :D.
Took this one cause it yas cheap and saw it was easy to disasemble and because it has a socketed CPU so the right to repair was more accessible in the future.
pumped it with a 4810mq and 16 gigs of ram yith a 500gigs SSD. I'm planing to produce on it as a way to prove to myself I can do music on a popato with opensource DAW and plugins. downside is the battery that last 3 hours max, gonna try to cyrberpunk mod it with a 100w powerbank held in place with velcro on the lower topcase yith a USB-C to slim tip cable If I manage to find one. When I'll feel more confortable with a soldering iron I'll look into building a battery inside the CD bay.
Also need to find an azerty kezboard because this one feels great but the german disposition is driving me mad
I certainly wouldn't consider the i7-4810MQ to be a potato. It has similar performance to the i5-8350U that's used in the Thinkpad T480. It just uses a lot more power since it's 4 generations older.
was thinking "it's a popato" because I'm pretty sure it would not handle 20 tracks of vital :')