Here I go again. Another cheap laptop (well, it was $94 incl taxes) off ebay. Non-backlit screen (oops, KEYBOARD) and non-discrete GPU model but its i5 is a 7300 so there’s that. Also a 256g NVME and 9 cell battery plus 1900x? screen. Wiped Windows 10 and gave the whole 256g to EndeavourOS.
Advice? Things I should tweak? Anyone ever gotten the fingerprint reader to work on one of these? That last is the one thing I wish I could do in EndeavourOS that I can in Windows. (Except I wiped Windows [evil laugh].)
partner’s T440 had a 6-7 year shelf life before the wheels came off and she ran into a slowly deteriorating system where it was hard to save stuff or recall stuff).
We bought it on the premise that 10-12 was the norm for a laptop.
thinkcentre desktops on the other hand I’ve been refurbing for a long while (like 3) and there was never anything wrong with them I just had to upgrade.
my point? my history with trad. desktop over her history with T44X a tale of 2 computers.
Compared to WiN, EOS might be very friendly/cozy on the reborn 470.
Out of curiosity, what bits on the T440 gave up first? It sounds like it could have been hard drive related, but surely that would have been curable simply w/ a new hard drive (hopefully SSD).
I’ve got a little army of these Lenovos now… along with this one, a T420, T520 (really great old boat!), and a Gen5 X1 Carbon.
good god you love their old and new laptop line like I love their older desktop line…for the last 10 years I have consumed their famous M series including–in the here and now—an M93p I just refurb’d.
On the 440 it was the spinning HDD but I never ruled out MOBO. TBH I could not tell of the two. (I don’t really trust s.m.a.r.t. tests since everything is DYING and I never see HEALTHY even on brand new stuff).
Symptoms: would not save or hard to save. sluggish during tasks like a single .docx moved to a USB. Working in anything MS (word, powerpoint) challenging. maybe Ghz-deprived? slow and or occasional-functional which I just invented but you get the point. It became less responsive little by little.
She upgraded to a 470(? forgot). She liked the brand like I did.
Just check the linked Arch Wiki. It’s all in there.
I had to do the same on my x270 some years ago. My T14 AMD just needed a more recent firmware after I got it. But Arch Wiki usually is a reliable resource for this. Just follow the instructions there.
Stop and mask power profile service seems to have worked. And as far as tlp, just leave it pretty much with the default settings it shows? I’m not much to tweak stuff without knowing exactly what my goals are, and it appears there are pretty thorough settings already chosen by tlp.
Yes, that is what I did. I only set charge threshold bat 0 & 1 to stop_charge_threshold 80 and start_charge_threshold 75 . But may be this is default now?
