T440p to a P51
/Aren’t upgrades always nice? I ended up having that T440p for about a year and a half before upgrading it when my prior machine died. Then I used that from 2019 till a week or two ago. Now I’m on the Thinkpad P series!
This thing is a bit of a chonker, just like the T440p, however, the expansion is lovely! A Thunderbolt 3 port AND PCI Express Card slot for external GPU upgrades either way! Four slots for RAM upgrades, four storage ports if using M.2s or three if using two M.2s and a 2.5” drive. Also, it appears this is the final P series to use one of the click-in mechanical Thinkpad Advanced Docks…so I will likely be using this for a while, as these mechanical docks have far better Linux compatibility than the Thunderbolt 3 docks that are out these days. I might not have enough experience in using those to make that claim, but that is how I feel currently.
Below is my config
Clicking on this will enlarge it
Also I’m fairly happy with the aforementioned disk setup. I have yet to use that second M.2 slot, but if I need further storage on this desktop replacement in the future, I know I’ll have space! Currently, as seen below, I have a main Samsung NVMe M.2 for the boot/game drive and then a 2.5” ssd for storing media. This machine came secondhand with the Samsung drive and I slapped the 2.5” drive in it from my prior T440p!
Made it so you can enlarge this as well. Note the external 8TB backup drive I occasionally use.
That’s all there is to this update! Hopefully in coming months I’ll have more to report on any personal projects I’ve been doing, but I’ve really been enjoying running that GPD Win Max through its paces!
Edit: My Gigabyte Gaming Laptop is now running Fedora as well