laptop advice time...

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:03:10PM -0400, Peter King wrote:
> I have a Lenovo W510, which is a delightful machine and everything Just 
> Works on it (except perhaps the modem which I've never had occasion to
> try out).  The keyboard is the old-style IBM keyboard, which is terrific,
> not the recent "chiclet" style that seems to have become the Lenovo norm.
> I would not buy that keyboard, so you need to be very careful about just
> what is available and what you're willing to put up with.

I am pretty sure the keyboard on my W530 is chiclet style, but it is a
very nice keyboard to work with.

> Otherwise, I run gentoo on the W510, and as noted it all runs without any
> sort of hiccup -- it just works. Lots of RAM, quad-core with multithreading
> gives you eight virtual processors, good screen resolution...  If you can
> find one with the right keyboard, buy it; you won't be disappointed.

How much ram can you put in the W510?  I currently have 24GB in my W530
out of the maximum 32GB.

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Len Sorensen
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