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![Screenshot](/assets/t60-scrot.png){:class="img-responsive"}
Yesterday I created a post talking about the new laptop I was getting and well, I have finally picked it up. I was surprised to see it in such a good condition, even though the charging cable does seem to be a bit iffy (it works, but I may have to get new one). The battery, as already expected, doesn't last a very long time (about an hour) and because of that, I have already ordered a new one (with over 8 Ah if I remember corretly) that should hopefully last a bit longer than the current one. It's one of these rather large ones that actually stick out from the back of the laptop, so that'll make this beast even heavier than it already is (2+ kg, which is about 5 lbs). But overall, I'm quite impressed by how well this laptop has been kept; there are no scratches, the display is _very_ clean, the keyboard is working fine — everything just seems to work.
Yesterday I created a post talking about the new laptop I was getting and well, I have finally picked it up. I was surprised to see it in such a good condition, even though the charging cable does seem to be a bit iffy (it works, but I may have to get new one). The battery, as already expected, doesn't last a very long time (about an hour) and because of that, I have already ordered a new one (with over 8 Ah if I remember correctly) that should hopefully last a bit longer than the current one. It's one of these rather large ones that actually stick out from the back of the laptop, so that'll make this beast even heavier than it already is (2+ kg, which is about 5 lbs). But overall, I'm quite impressed by how well this laptop has been kept; there are no scratches, the display is _very_ clean, the keyboard is working fine — everything just seems to work.
## OS and hardware stuff
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> "Due to an addressing limitation in the Intel 945PM and 945GM chipsets, only 3 GB will be available for use".
I do, however, believe that 3 GB will be more than enough; heck, even 2 GB do the job just fine, but having an extra gigabyte isn't going to hurt, especially since these old RAM sticks don't really cost a lot of money anymore (I paid €8, which includes shipping). They are supposed to arrive on Wednesday and I will create another blog post when they do.
I do, however, believe that 3 GB will be more than enough; heck, even 2 GB do the job just fine, but having an extra gigabyte isn't going to hurt, especially since these old RAM sticks don't really cost a lot of money any more (I paid €8, which includes shipping). They are supposed to arrive on Wednesday and I will create another blog post when they do.
### HDD

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There is a large amount of `Old_age` or `Pre-fail` types and nothing seems to be okay; this may actually be on of the reasons for this laptop being so slow at times, despite the processor not being too terrible. And while I'd hate having to set up everything again, I don't think I will be getting around doing that because this hard drive is quite clearly going to die _very_ soon.
And because I thought I might as well go _all out_ if I do, I have ordered a 128 GB SSD online that will hopefully arrive on Friday. I have never actually used an SSD in any of my computers, but it's quite noticable that this hard drive has seen its best days already.
And because I thought I might as well go _all out_ if I do, I have ordered a 128 GB SSD online that will hopefully arrive on Friday. I have never actually used an SSD in any of my computers, but it's quite noticeable that this hard drive has seen its best days already.
I also believe this may increase the performance because of the low amount of RAM; as this laptop only supports 3 GB of RAM, it will frequently have to use its swap drive and if that is running on this very old and slow HDD, I can see how it would make the laptop basically unusable.
Although, I must be honest, it does surprise me slightly; the `Power_On_Hours` is only at `2921` which is a _very_ low value; I'm not quite sure why the HDD would be near failure after such a short amount of time.

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xinput set-prop "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" "libinput Accel Speed" +0
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I found that, for me personally, a speed of `+0.3` works great, so adding the following line to my i3 config:
I found that, for me personally, a speed of `+0.3` works great, so adding the following line to my i3 config will automatically set the TouchPad speed upon starting i3-gaps:
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#Changing TrackPoint sensitivity
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I have also abandoned ranger as my file manager and moved over to vifm. The main reasons for that are that vifm seems to be more lightweight, it's written in C (so it's faster than ranger, which was written in Python) and it uses the Vim keybindings all over. Additionally, you can add image, pdf (and other files) previews using [Überzug](https://github.com/seebye/ueberzug), which provides image previews that are _soo_ much better than those of w3mimgdisplay; those tend to be very iffy and don't often work correctly. This is especially true when using the terminal emulator I use, namely [suckless' st (simple terminal)](https://st.suckless.org/), because the image previews barely work at all in that terminal, especially when using transparency.
Vifm on its own doesn't have any icons, which I like, but it's a feature that can very easily be patched in by adding a few lines to the vifm config file (`~/.config/vifm/vifmrc`).
The speed increase is especially noticable on an old machine like the T60: ranger takes 1-5 seconds to open and vifm opens up almost instananeously. It may not be as noticable on more powerful machines, but I believe that, even there, the differnce would be big enough to be noticable. I have yet to install vifm on my main computer and my other laptop, but I will and see if the speed increase is noticable there as well.
The speed increase is especially noticeable on an old machine like the T60: ranger takes 1-5 seconds to open and vifm opens up almost instantaneously. It may not be as noticeable on more powerful machines, but I believe that, even there, the difference would be big enough to be noticeable. I have yet to install vifm on my main computer and my other laptop, but I will and see if the speed increase is noticeable there as well.

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layout: default
title: ThinkPad T60 adventures
---
<h2 style="text-decoration: underline">Adventures in setting up a T60 with a modern OS</h2>
<h2>Adventures in setting up a T60 with a modern OS</h2>
<p>On this page you will find all posts in the series "Adventures in setting up a T60 with a modern OS" wherein I set up an IBM ThinkPad T60 with Manjaro, play around with config files, upgrade hardware and more.
<hr>
<ul>
{% for post in site.t60 %}
<h3><li><a href="{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}</a></li></h3>
<hr>
{% endfor %}
</ul>