{"id":561,"date":"2015-11-14T20:01:22","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T01:01:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/?p=561"},"modified":"2015-11-14T20:01:22","modified_gmt":"2015-11-15T01:01:22","slug":"lenovo-cheap-laptops-for-fun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2015\/11\/14\/lenovo-cheap-laptops-for-fun\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenovo Cheap Laptops for fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pass up an interesting, cheap and small laptop. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll always have a use for them somewhere. Recently I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve managed to pick up two Lenovos, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interesting to see how varied and strange the laptops are from one another. They are both from the same manufacture, yet might as well be from completely different companies.<\/p>\n<p>The first was the\u00c2\u00a0Lenovo S21e, which I picked up from Amazon for a good deal &#8211; $179. Sure it has only a 32GB EMMC \u00e2\u20ac\u0153ssd\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and 2G Ram, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d figure I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d get Linux on it easily. How soon I forgot the BayTrail of tears. Ubuntu was more easily installed than on the Acer Switch, but the trackpad and then Wifi had issues and needed custom kernels. I ended up just putting Windows 10 back on it. It has a nice keyboard, decent screen and is thin and light. You need a USB ethernet dongle if you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to use Wifi.<\/p>\n<p>Then I saw the Thinkpad 11e-G2 on Woot and had to grab it. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an\u00c2\u00a0AMD E2-6110 Quad-Core with a real SATA 2.5 spinning disk. I wanted to grab a modern laptop with 2.5 drive for a SSD and most importantly, have a on-board ethernet port. This had both and also a real DIMM (4GB) that you can upgrade to 8GB. Ubuntu 15 installed perfectly. Trackpad, ethernet, wifi and bt all work flawlessly without any changes. The laptop is a little thicker and the screen is junky, but for the price it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great spare Linux laptop for when I need one. They keyboard is very nice with a little roughness to the keys that feels nice while typing.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_5375.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5375.jpg?resize=320%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG 5375\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_5378.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5378.jpg?resize=320%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG 5378\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"IMG_5379.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/IMG_5379.jpg?resize=320%2C240&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"IMG 5379\" width=\"320\" height=\"240\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t pass up an interesting, cheap and small laptop. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll always have a use for them somewhere. Recently I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve managed to pick up two Lenovos, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s interesting to see how varied and strange the laptops are from one another. They are both from the same manufacture, yet might as well be from completely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[87,20,32,75],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-laptop","category-linux","category-ubuntu","category-windows"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3PE01-93","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":486,"url":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2014\/09\/04\/in-search-of-the-smallest-acer-switch-10-edition\/","url_meta":{"origin":561,"position":0},"title":"In search of the smallest &#8211; Acer Switch 10 Edition","author":"dillera","date":"September 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Updated September 6th - More information, readbility August 11th -\u00c2\u00a0Read my latest post- I got another Switch 10 and am using Fedora on it... \u00c2\u00a0 In my never-ending search for the smallest of functional laptops it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s almost been impossible to find something that meets at the nebulous intersection of light\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;2-in-1&quot;","block_context":{"text":"2-in-1","link":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/category\/2-in-1\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Helix-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Helix-2.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dillernet.com\/apple\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/Helix-2.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":300,"url":"https:\/\/dillernet.com\/apple\/2010\/01\/09\/eee-1201n-ubuntu-karmic-good-results\/","url_meta":{"origin":561,"position":1},"title":"EEE 1201n Ubuntu Karmic &#8211; Good Results","author":"dillera","date":"January 9, 2010","format":false,"excerpt":"So the EEEbuntu 3 install (based on Ubuntu 9.04, Jaunty) was too flakey, and while I had the ION working great, I still had no ethernet or wifi. 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