I’ve just got hold of a nearly mint IBM Thinkpad X30. The one with the legendary keyboard. No, my Lenovo Thinkpad X61 keyboard is nowhere as nice.
The problem was, the X30 only had 256MB of RAM. I wiped out the harddisk containing WinXP Home and installed Ubuntu Linux. The machine simply wasn’t usable because of the constant HD activity. I didn’t expect Linux to be so resource hungry.
I pulled a bar of 512MB PC133 SO-DIMM from an old laptop of the same era and put it into the X30, and it now seems to be quite usable.
Well chuffed