My ThinkPad T470

About a few months ago, I finally bought a Lenovo ThinkPad T470 for 6300 Turkish liras, which makes 174USD as for the date of the blog. 

I always wanted a ThinkPad to tinker with it, or use as a personal engineering & IT tool. Started to save cash and waited after months after months, almost a year, finally got one.

 

It was shipped with Windows 10, which is not my preference for this machine. It should get refreshed with a Linux distribution, right? First, I wanted to try Fedora Linux. Unfortunately, it wasn't good in terms of performance. Then I tried Ubuntu later, it was better than Fedora but still not good enough.

I finally tried my last resort. Arch Linux. Like I said, I want to use this for my personal purposes and make it stable enough for use. You may say "use Debian instead" but come on, I don't want to work with a 3-year old kernel and outdated packages. In exchange of "stability", I got performance. I used Arch instead. I already know Arch Linux well and I daily drove the OS with i3wm in my desktop (Which currently has Windows 10).

Result? Though it is considered as a "unstable" distribution, I never had problems with it and never changed the distribution ever again. It was running perfect, and I'm currently writing this blog from Arch. Sometimes I had intrusive thoughts about changing to Gentoo, but that won't happen in near future (or is it?).

About the System

As you can see the Fastfetch output, It has 8 gigs of RAM, Intel i5 6300U processor, Intel HD Graphics 520, 240 gigs of SSD and more. It has a decent performance, I could do pretty much any lightweight job easily. It's not handling gaming perfect. I tried Terraria, Minecraft, Half-Life, Age of History 2 (yes) and some stuff. It was not perfect, but fine enough to play. Also since I have a device for retro gaming (new blog post foreshadowing maybe), I did not tested it with emulators yet either. But I assume it would run retro games from GBA, DS, PS1, etc. easily. As for the desktop enviroments, I was using the GNOME as main DE but currently, I'm using the good ol' i3wm. Here's my rice, if you can call it a "rice" of course.

 

 

And also, I've took some pictures of the hardware's itself.

 

 

And that's it. See you in another blog posts, folks!