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Re:The End of Windows by yjftsjthsd-h on Monday April 02, 2018 @11:05AM (#16735066)
> I have to run that archlinux/i3wm setup on the x200 to get more data.

Well, it's Linux; unless you're running Gentoo, you can probably just swap the hard drive :-) Unless of course the SSD is an important part of this test.

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Re:The End of Windows by agumonkey on Monday April 02, 2018 @11:28AM (#16735360)
no you're right, I was just not willing to swap the disks
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Re:The End of Windows by keithpeter on Monday April 02, 2018 @06:28PM (#16740018)
Caddies same size, so just one screw on each machine and a quick swap.

X220/8Gb/xfce4 runs fine for my modest needs.

At one of my employers they are using Windows 10 for Education. We had some atom based small form factor desktop PCs that worked really nicely with Windows 10 just after the upgrade, but then as great grandparent post says began to become noticebly slower as the weeks and months went by. They have been replaced with i5/8Mb machines now which seem fine.

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Re:The End of Windows by agumonkey on Monday April 02, 2018 @07:39PM (#16740485)
Crazy how free market 'improves' things..

ps: btw I just did ssd swap. I'll see how the x200 does. First difference, wifi nic has a much stronger signal/bandwidth.

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