The Market Ticker - Installing FreeBSD, Dual-Boot, on an X1 Carbon Gen6

I’ve had my Lenovo X220 for a long time.  Time has moved on and yet until this last year I saw no compelling reason to spend money again.  The X220 works great and the “improvements” have been small in number but large in price — and thus not worth it, in my view.

This last year the X1 Carbon Gen 6 units showed up.  The previous models were nothing special — but the “6″ was nice.  The problem was that “nice” came with a screamingly-stupid price tag, so I passed.  But now you can get the X1 Carbon Gen 6 models in a good configuration (i7, 16Gb RAM and a 500Gb SSD) at a nice price — refurbished, but still with a decent amount of remaining factory warranty.

Incidentally, Lenovo has a rather nice “companion” app that allows you to (among other things) set the charge controller’s maximum charge point on these machines (!!!)  Setting it to 80% will cost you…….

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