[sf-lug] offered: S/N PBPAC88 Lenovo MT-M 1578 - L7U (i3-2130, 4 GiB, 500G HDD)

[Michael Paoli]

Hmmm... and maybe I'll install a Debian Virtual Machine on that computer,
just because I can and the hardware seems quite sufficiently capable.

> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli at cal.berkeley.edu>
> To: BerkeleyLUG <berkeleylug at googlegroups.com>
> Subject: offered: S/N PBPAC88 Lenovo MT-M 1578 - L7U (i3-2130, 4  
> GiB, 500G HDD)
> Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2021 17:12:37 -0800

> offered: S/N PBPAC88 Lenovo MT-M 1578 - L7U (i3-2130, 4 GiB, 500G HDD)
> details can be found here:
> https://www.wiki.balug.org/wiki/doku.php?id=balug:offered_wanted_hardware_etc
>
> Don't think I've quite "finalized" my plans/criteria for giving it away,
> but at least so far game plan goes about like this:
> o hoping to find it a new home within <~= 31 days
> o make your case for why you want it - emailing me (and including the
>   S/N: PBPAC88 in Subject: headers), or maybe tell me at a [L]UG meeting
>   when I'm there (e.g.: https://berkeleylug.com/meetings/)
> o not "first come, first served" - not a race - though offer doesn't
>   last forever
> o I may demo it a bit at some upcoming [L]UG meeting(s), e.g. likely:
>   2021-03-07 https://www.sf-lug.org/
>   2021-03-13 http://linuxmafia.com/cabal/ (--> virtual, and not 'till 11:59p)
>   2021-03-14 https://berkeleylug.com/meetings/
>   2021-03-16 https://www.balug.org/#Meetings-upcoming
> o I'm thinking submissions cut-off (at least first round) end of
>   2021-03-19 US/Pacific, I make decision on what's been received by then,
>   and shortly thereafter (e.g. on 2021-03-20 US/Pacific), I announce who
>   gets it (and their pitch/proposal), and maybe some runner(s) up.
> o You need to pick it up in Berkeley (94703), or I need to be able to drop
>   it off sufficiently close as to be reasonably convenient to me.  And it
>   needs happen in a reasonably timely manner (days to a week or so is fine,
>   30+ days is not - would rollover to runner(s) up on list).
>
> Miscellaneous comments: Seems to be a relatively decent machine for its
> vintage.  Seems to mostly run quite quiet, though fan(s) loud when very
> first powered up (probably does max for a few seconds to test 'em) - that
> might be different if one heavily pushes CPU/GPU.
> Some of the BIOS power settings are quite nice, e.g. when power is
> applied, it can be set to remain off, power on, or return to whatever
> state it was in when power was removed (the latter being the default).
> And yes, it can be handily powered up remotely via Wake-on-Lan.  Seems to
> mostly be in quite good shape physically - bit of dust, but not
> really much for its age.  Low "mileage" (powered on hours) on the hard
> drive - perhaps likewise the rest of it too?  I think it only does legacy
> boot, no [U]EFI settings in BIOS (and installing configured for [U]EFI
> appears to miserably fail).  I'll likely fully wipe the hard drive (in
> stages) ... didn't do that before install.  Haven't extensively tested
> the hardware, but thus far seeing zero problems on it.  Seems likely it
> got used for a while (weeks or so) once-upon-a-time ... and then just
> sat for a very long time after that.