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Windows 10 USB Install Media … or MS BS

I got schooled (again) the other day whilst trying to help a forum member.  They’d been running Linux on a Lenovo machine and wanted to boot Windows 10 install media to set up a dual boot situation. Forum Member: “I’ve … Continue reading

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ThinkPad P1 Gen 2: a Beauty AND a Beast

ThinkPad P1 Gen 2 – images Lenovo A beauty: slim and trim, carbon fiber display cover, gorgeous UHD OLED touch display. A beast: hexacore i7, two NVMe SSD slots, major league RAM capacity. This beastly beauty is my first workstation-class … Continue reading

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Fob Story III, A Tale of Three Fobs, Goldilocks and the … oh never mind…

Another chapter in the “Swiss Army” external drive saga. First it was the classic multi-boot USB flash drive:  A FOB STORY: some notes on bootable flash drives then the “turbo” external NVMe/USB-A & -C version: FOB Story II and now a … Continue reading

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X1 Generations – ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 5

  ThinkPad X1 Yoga Gen 5 – 360 View – image Lenovo   Another non-review where we examine the usual suspects.  You know the drill: From time to time  Lenovo sends me a gadget. They’re handy to have around – … Continue reading

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Fiddling with Fedora Live

I may be the only one interested in this kind of thing, but the Fedora on ThinkPads news got me looking into Fedora again… after a long hiatus… This isn’t ThinkPad specific, although my current test machines are X1 Yogas … Continue reading

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