Computer

The machines I work on, what runs on them, and why.


p50Lenovo ThinkPad P50

daily driver

ModelThinkPad P50, type 20EQ
CPUIntel Core i7-6820HQ
GPUIntel HD Graphics 530, NVIDIA Quadro M1000M
RAM32 GB
Storage512 GB Toshiba SATA SSD
Display15.6 in, 1920 x 1080
OSPop!_OS 24.04

A 2016 beast, some would say a workstation. This heavy piece of elegance was given to me by my brother-in-law. Couldn’t be more grateful for it. Got me through university, many gaming and coding nights. Never had any problems with it except it weighing a metric but ton.

Running Pop!_OS since the beginning. Found it just works. 24.04 was amazing, gaming worked great on that. Now im on the 24.04 closely following COSMIC’s development. But something NixOS related is cooking up in the lab. Spoiler: This wont run PopOS much longer.

Software running on this bad boy


aspireAcer Aspire 5333

nixos playground

CPUIntel Celeron P4600, 2 cores, 2.0 GHz
RAM4 GB DDR3
Storage500 GB HDD
OpticalDVD drive
Display15.6 in, 1366 x 768
OSNixOS 26.05

An oldie, you can hear the bones (HDDs) shaking when being booted up. It was on the shelf for quite some time but now it’s used for experimenting with NixOS. Could I do that in a VM, sure, but where the fun in that. And with the current storage prices, 500 GBs, I’m a rich man.