Upgrades
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My new laptop (Borges, named after Jorge Luis Borges) has arrived. It's a 
Thinkpad T420 (hello, pet84rik!) -- and it is brilliant. For me, its keyboard is 
still the finest one manufactured for a laptop, like, ever. Its size is also 
perfect. It is refurbished, but apart from a few aesthetic things it is in 
really great condition. I bought it with 4 Gigs of RAM, so I also ordered an 
additional 4 Gigs module. The additional RAM shipped first, which was a bit 
weird -- the module was sitting on my desk, I was looking at it for three or 
four days and imagined how I would upgrade Borges. 

Borges is currently running Solus, which is a totally new thing for me. I 
haven't tried it previously, nor I was aware that it exits. And I must say I 
really like it so far. It is one of the independent, user friendly distros, 
which means I have to learn new things yet again (which is fine) and also that 
the DE (Budgie) is quite an eye candy (which I don't mind either). More 
importantly it is really-really fast on Borges and everything works. Everything 
just works. No need for workarounds and extra packages.

Wifi works. Bluetooth works. Suspend and sleep work. All the function keys 
(brightness, volume etc) work. Even the bezel lamp works.

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I also have a new desk in my study slash library slash office. 

The company I work for decided to buy new furniture so they put the old pieces 
up for sale for the employees (for the record: the old furniture was way better 
than the new one). So I bought a desk for the price of a smartphone case and I 
finally have enough desk space for the three monitors of Amethyst and there's 
still space left for my printer and the external hard drive I have.

To sum up, I am really happy with both purchases -- I am totally in love with 
Borges (writing these very words on it), also the old-new desk is a real quality 
upgrade for my study.