Summary: An overview of my experience with a Lenovo T520. This machine is no joke. It's seriously fast/powerfull, everything seems to work between Windows 7 Pro x64 and Fedora 16 x64. I have not booted into Windows very much, but that seems to perform flawlessly. My system: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2760QM CPU @ 2.40GHz Integrated Intel VGA, secondary Nvidia VGA (optimus) 750 GB Scorpio Black 7200 RPM, 16MB http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/516398 - GeekBench of 13338 Why: I'm having a bit of a career focus shift. My primary goal/focus is to become as proficient as I once was with Solaris, or even more so. This will provide credibility and experience to leverage with my customers. I felt it doesn't represent my undying devotion to Linux, if I walk in and plop a MacBook Pro on the table. I needed a laptop to run a reasonably new Red Hat (read: fedora) release. I talked to a friend who works for Red Hat to see what his experience. ...
Linux: The whole world made it for you... This blog is a collection of things I come across either at home or at work as a Linux Administrator. I have worked as an Admin working with Solaris, SAN, Backups and Linux at the Enterprise level for over 16 years.