x220 max ram?
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Hi, does anyone know how much RAM does the i5-2520M take? It comes with 8GB. The thing is, I have some other laptops from that era, for instance one with a i5-2410M came with 8GB and was listed as max 8GB, but I was able to find 2 8GB ram sticks and it works fine in 16GB, and now with the new thermal paste the CPU is no longer screeching in overheat and it's reasonably silent with an SSD.
Do you think I can achieve the same result with a x220? If so, what is the best ram to get it to 16GB? And with new thermal paste the CPU will be silent? Thanks
From Intel:
Intel Core i5-2520M Processor
3M Cache, up to 3.20 GHz
Max Memory Size (dependent on memory type): 16 GB
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From sellers:
- Libreboot ThinkPad x220 (SeaBIOS + Grub) Intel i5-2520M 2.5GH 256GB SSD 16GB RAM:
https://ubbcentral.com/store/item/Libreboot-ThinkPad-x220-SeaBIOS-Grub-Intel-i5-2520M-2-5GH-256GB-SSD-16GB-RAM_126603822036.html
- Libreboot Thinkpad X220, i5 2520M, 16GB RAM, No SSD:
https://www.ebay.ca/itm/127366132349
- Libreboot Lenovo Thinkpad X220 Intel i5 16GB RAM 250GB SSD:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/136563214184
@icarolongo - You literally personally just spent six months running a Troll Lounge thread about a meme you created in which you categorized Libreboot as malware, and now here you are promoting different sellers to purchase Librebooted computers from.
Either you are engaging in rank hypocrisy, OR you were trolling and laughing at all the people who believe that Libreboot is malware.
I didn't find laptops for sale with Canoeboot.
I'm just showing that there are laptops for sale that support the amount of memory.
That is peculiar, did he actually do that in the troll lounge?
I looked at the meme software vs libre software and I didn't see him classify it as malware, just non-free from what I could see.
I am a translator!
My main problem with Libreboot is its name, which somehow hides that it actually includes non-free software. That said, it has a very clear benefit for Trisquel users: it allows replacing the WLAN card with a WLAN card that works with entirely free software. USB dongles from Thinkpenguin are nice but they only can do 2.4 GHz, and at my place in a very dense urban area, the throughput tends to be rather low, while it works much better with a WLAN card that supports 5 GHz (including one from Thinkpenguin).
Seconded. I love Libreboot, I use it myself and to be honest I even understand the rational behind including some limited amount of non-free software. However, given the fact that it's no longer 100% free software it desperately needs a rebrand.
I have thought that before too to be honest. But it is what it is.
I still think she should have called libreboot osboot and canoeboot libreboot, but w/e
It isn't my project so... yeah.
i quite enjoyed this: https://trisquel.info/de/forum/meme-malware-vs-libre-software#comment-181128
i gotta say, it's a great honour to have my project shown there. the absense of canoeboot is somewhat curious.
as for the OP:
16GB. 2x 8GB DDR3 SODIMM modules. pretty much any of them will work nicely in your ThinkPad X220.
I thought the same thing to be honest.
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/meme-malware-vs-libre-software#comment-181340
This being said, canoeboot not being there, and gnuboot being there to me feels... like a cop out.
You did not ask the question, but you raised a mild grievance that would imply such a question. The question is this: why isn't Libreboot called Osboot and Canoeboot called Libreboot?
The reason is very simple: when I had osboot and Libreboot, managing both projects was quite tedious and cumbersome, because I had not integrated them as tightly as I integrate Libreboot and Canoeboot today.
Today, Canoeboot pretty much just cherry-picks Libreboot patches, per-commit, minus anything that would not be suitable for Canoeboot. This means that I occasionally have to modify (or skip) a given Libreboot commit, and make a few mild tweaks, but the result is that Canoeboot is almost identical to Libreboot, save for a few minor build system differences, slightly different patches, and fewer coreboot configs.
I decided to merge both projects in late 2022, to make this problem go away, by having just a single project, and Libreboot already had the reputation built up. After a lot of research and testing the waters, I concluded that the vast majority of people would accept it, and so I did it.
However, the opposition to this proved later to be much more pronounced than initially anticipated, so I once again split into two projects, but OSBoot is a pretty crap name. OSBoot was never meant to be popular, just a testing ground for my takeover of Libreboot in 2021 - Osboot started in late 2020 after I'd been on hiatus from Libreboot for a few years, and after the Libreboot project had essentially been dead for a few years.
Canoeboot is a really cool name, because Canoe means Kanu in German - and Boot in German means Boat in English.
Canoeboot vs libreboot is pretty much this, for most people: use Libreboot. However, Canoeboot is provided for Free Software purists. Given that the use-case for Canoeboot is a minority of users, versus the entire community, my conclusion is that Libreboot must be the greater project, and Canoeboot the lesser project. This is not to say that I devalue either. I take great pride in both projects, and I personally treat them as equals. I use Canoeboot myself, on several machines, especially for build-testing (if something is stable in Canoeboot, then it'll be bulletproof in Libreboot).
Fair enough, I didn't know what canoeboot meant. What does kanu mean anyways?
And yes perhaps osboot wasn't the right name. I just meant I thought libreboot would be the purist version and the other one would have a different name if needed
But either way, I appreciate you developing those projects.
What matters is that both projects satisfy their respective target audiences.
A canoe (in german: kanu) is a type of boat, and "boot" when written german means boat.
Ich habe das Boot gekauft <-- translation: I purchased the boat
Therefore, Canoeboot translates to Kanuboat, if you treat Boot as German and Canoe as English.
Kanu is the German word for Canoe.