Hi, I bought a second hand Lenovo X200 recently in order to install Trisquel
gnu operating system. I'm very happy with it.
When I got it was installed with a non free OS. Trisquel Mini installation
went fine, only thing is I used some bad usb to boot on and installation
process crashed later. After switching to some good quality usb it went
perfectly good.
It came with a German Keyboard and I purchased a second hand keyboard for my
language (French). I was pleased to see that keyboard replacement is very
easy. It seems most parts are designed to be easily replaced as well.
It came with 4Gb RAM.
I find it very fast to boot, put in sleep or hibernate mode and fast to use
in general. Also on my X200, there's no CD drive. But I've got a dock bay
with a CD drive and more ports.
The only thing not natively working is the Wi-Fi. I bought a usb Wi-Fi
adapter TP-LINK TL-WN721N and it's working perfectly with plug and play.
overall feeling is good. We can feel it's designed for professionals. It's
solid and with no gadgets. It's also quite silent and do not get too hot.
Keyboard got a very good type feeling, display size is sufficient for my
usage, mainly office work, internet browsing, coding. I do not use CPU
intensive tasks. Autonomy is 4/5 hours.
I think with the X200 from Minifree you get the CD drive and a compatible
internal Wi-Fi.
I'm planning to install a free bios to replace the Lenovo one. But it seems
I'll need to purchase some single board computer to do so ...
Perhaps also in the future I'll upgrade the hard drive to solid state one.
