Thinkpad T42P: Fan Death
On Thursday night, the fan died on my P42p thinkpad. If I am a bit unresponsive in email, or don’t have information I should have, you know why. Hopefully we can get it resurrected, else I’m looking at maybe getting a new laptop.
The T42p has been my constant companion for about three years, and runs Ubuntu. I upgraded to Hardy Heron without a hitch. It is very snappy, and has a lot of tools and programming languages on it. Even though it would be underpowered (and the 80GB drive too small) for windows, it is quite pleasant as a Linux box. It tends to outperform my friends’ much more powerful Windows and Mac boxes, and the updates are much easier. I did have some trouble learning how to use it with different monitors, and of course my usual problems getting different IDEs all squared away, but it is a very fine box when the fan isn’t dead.
