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OK, CrunchBang 11 Waldorf installation complete.  Everything working perfectly.

I am impressed.  This is just a reminder of how all that "obsolete" technology out there...  Well, it might not be obsolete.  Here's a c.11 year old computer, running a thoroughly modern OS, able to keep pace with any of my modern machines.  (I was most impressed watching the Pentium 4 processor hardly break a sweat while cranking through a test brace of YouTube videos.  I wouldn't want to do that constantly, but...Well done!)

We're all too quick to jump on the new is better bandwagon.  However...

This little computer is another example of something I'd put on my "back to school" tech list.  (The one where, if I were a starving student heading off to college, what would I try to get to use.)  Loaded up with CrunchBang, I think this would hold it's own as a work computer.  Easily.

Though, yeah, I know it won't play the latest games, etc.  But, then, I'm not a game player, so...

I just plugged the new battery in.  The original one was holding about an hour and a half charge (actually a little more), so I'll be interested to see if this one does better.

But, after about a whole hour of playing with the system through tests and installs, I have to say, I like this T30!

AND AN ADDITIONAL NOTE:

I'm doing a new battery rundown test, and the T30 is doing quite nicely.  Though it's pretty late, and I'm running close to shutdown.

As a final note, I dug out a few Thinkpad Trackpoint caps that i picked up a while ago.  I was going to put one of the newer ones (may the "mushroom" style) on it.  However, it came with the standard "asbestos" style, so that's what I put on.  The old one was in really bad shape, looked like paper had been glued to it.

So far, so good.  I like it.