With the old IBM i200 now running Debian and a backup copy of my /home I’ve gone back to trying to figure out what the heck is going on with the V2000. I did some testing all day yesterday, bascially just to see if it would run without any load. I let it sit plugged in, no screen saver no sleep, and did the same thing with battery power. Amazingly it ran without a problem both ways. I’m even typing this entry on it, been running all day no hiccups.

The one caviot was when trying to boot the Windows drive, nothing. I guess I could say switching drives in and out between the two OS’s freeked the BIOS out, but I don’t see how that’s possible. If I lived in the hardware world maybe I could come up with something that made more sense. So between the two I should be able to get a few more years of use, or at least I hope so. If the V2000 fails me I’ve got a backup with a keyboard that rocks. And to think I was checking out a Lenovo T60, at todays rate it’s about $1,600.00 ouch!!!