Teaching my kids how to build their own ThinkPads, and the differences in storage media.

Jun 22, 2020 9:13 PM

Showed them everything from 5 1/4 " Floppies to 1TB NVME. Their mind blew when comparing the 1TB HDD to the 1tb NVME.

Swapping keyboards and ram from a dumpster find dead x201 to a dumpster find x201s.

The Father's Day ThinkPad Build-Off. Three kids, 4 ThinkPads, 2 running Pop!OS (kids, x201s and T400), 1 - Windows 10 (W541), 1 Dual Boot Debian 10 and Windows 10 (P50).

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Damn those Rams are delicious. Go great with rice and corn.

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Those are some lucky kids. Good dadding!

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The cat does not look impressed.

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micro SD cards always floor me 40 bucks will get you 256GB in something the size of your fingertip

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They make Terabytes micros SD's now. They're not cheap yet, but they make em.' That amount of storage in that tiny space is insane.

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Bonus father's day points for running Pop!OS on two of them. How apropos!

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