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blackops@universeodon.com

I picked up an old Lenovo ThinkPad T480s. I don't know if they still build them as well and as modular (this thing is built like a tank), but in any case ... older hardware still rocks. It runs Linux and FreeBSD like a champ.

pierre_bernard@mastoot.fr

@sslaia the Lenovo website shows many laptops (Thinkpad) that are « AI ready ». What is that ? Do we pay more because of that ?

sslaia@mastodon.social

@pierre_bernard According to the video, you'd have to pay extra now for Windows and you'd have to ask for it. AI PC is heavily marketed by Microsoft.

pierre_bernard@mastoot.fr

@sslaia so, if you want to purchase a laptop for Linux, you should avoid “AI PC” ?

frutigeraero00@mastodon.social

@sslaia De super puta madre socio

_ryekdarkener_@mastodon.social

@sslaia

To my knowledge Lenovo always did well with Linux. Good to hear it is now officially supported.
And definitely good news for every private user.

netraven@hear-me.social

@sslaia scuse me, but why would bill gates give a fuck?

idoodle@mastodon.social

@sslaia
Great News

elbeetoots@mastodon.nl

@pierre_bernard @sslaia It will probably run Linux just fine and if you want to use a *local* AI application under Linux, that application can benefit from the additional NPU that is present besides the regular CPU and GPU in "AI PCs".

It's partly also a Microsoft-related marketing term. See this article: https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/what-is-an-ai-pc

decapitae@mastodon.social

@sslaia This

humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world

@sslaia well back in the mists of time thinkpads shipped with OS/2 and were downgraded to W95 on customer insistence. I’d pick a Lenovo now because of Linux though @justdude

justdude@mastodon.nl

@humanhorseshoes @sslaia fully agree…

elbeetoots@mastodon.nl

@sslaia The video preview is... AI-generated. Also, Bill Gates is long gone as CEO so he probably doesn't give a flying copulation about Lenovo (and Dell!) giving the option of installing Linux instead of Windows.

He has other problems too, because he's mentioned in the Epstein Files rather often.

dukeduke@mastodon.social

@sslaia Excellent! I've been running Zorin on my primary Lenovo laptop for several years, and have never had an issue!

humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world

@justdude @sslaia I had Windows 11 on an old computer and it was constantly breaking so I didn’t even back it up and deleted it and MacOS and after a lot of messing about have a lovely Fedora 43 system

fizzydaisies@mas.to

@Netraven @sslaia That clickbait video title is ridiculous. Lenovo has been selling computers with Ubuntu preinstalled for several years.

gustavo_rezende@mastodon.social

@sslaia

"A computer is like air conditioning - it becomes useless when you open Windows."

zazzoo@mstdn.ca

@sslaia Good on them. No more paying the Microsoft tax - where you have to pay for a Windows license even though the first thing you'll do when you get home is format the hard drive.

pouakai@mastodon.social

@gustavo_rezende
It's a nice statement lol

spiny@mastodon.social

@sslaia shitty clickbait. why would bill gates give a fuck what Lenovo do?

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