[GTALUG] good deal on netbook; war story: putting Fedora on it

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Nov 30, 2018 at 12:20:33PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
> Looks good.  Where is that?  Is it ending today?  (Not important to me
> -- I don't actually need a new computer.  But I'm interested.)

Lenovo website.

For an extra $90 the 500G HD becomes a 512GB NVMe drive, and the keyboard
becomes backlit.  That is the 20L9S14T00 model.  Quite the deal (about
50% off regular price where as the one with the HD is about 33% off).

> I assume (but don't know) that you could easily add an NVMe SSD to
> this.  Aftermarket SSDs are cheap and seem to be getting cheaper.
> 
> I kind of thought that T5n0 models would have n'th generation Intel
> processors.  I have noticed that there are exceptions, unfortunately.  
> The i5-8____ series are usually better than the i5-7___
> series.  Often twice as many cores.

Yeah seems both 7th and 8th gen CPUs are used.

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Len Sorensen