Subj : New Toy
To   : All
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Mon Apr 26 2021 06:52 am

I picked up a Lenovo Thinkpad X131e for $30 this weekend, in mint condition. 
The keyboard and screen are immaculate.

It's a Chromebook, I wanted to have a spare for my daughter and have one to 
play with for a while. Unfortunately it's a bit older and EOL according to 
Google. It's stuck at Chrome 69.

I opened up the inside and it's got 2 memory sockets and a space for a 2.5" 
SATA drive. I tossed a 32GB SSD I bought as a test drive and Chrome sees it 
as storage. Nice.

I've got a couple of options. I played with Crouton and got a recent version 
of XFCE running on it. CloudReady is a third-party ChromiumOS that supports 
this model. And, with some BIOS tweaking you can install bare-metal linux.

I migth stick with Crouton, and when my daughter's Chromebook finally dies, 
powerwash this one and give it to her.


.... Such a format will close the door.
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