ThinkPad Laptop Upgrade: ThinkPad P1 Gen 5 Review Since March 2015, I've used a ThinkPad T450s as my personal laptop, and I'm both amazed and pleased that I've managed to get 7 (nearly 8) years out of it! Recently though, I've found the smaller 14-inch 1600x900 resolution screen a
ThinkPad Upgrading a ThinkPad T450s with an M.2 SSD How to install a M.2 2242 SSD in a ThinkPad T450s. In my home office setup blog post I covered in some detail what I currently use, including my ThinkPad T450s (2015 model) . Since I've bought the laptop I've upgraded the 2.5" SSD
Linux Mint How to fix a ThinkPad's TrackPoint in Linux Mint With Mint 17.1 I have found that the TrackPoint doesn't work completely out of the box - the mouse buttons for the TrackPoint act as scrollers rather than left and right click buttons. From what I have been reading it would appear that the problem is due to
Linux Mint Fixing Linux Mint screen brightness controls I've recently installed Linux Mint on my Thinkpad T450s. After installing Mint I noticed that the screen was constantly on full brightness and I couldn't change the brightness using the function keys. With this solution you can adjust the brightness, and ensured that the settings are
Linux Mint Disable Bluetooth on startup in Linux Mint With my ThinkPad T450s running Mint 17.1, I have found that Bluetooth is always turned on by default when booted, regardless of whatever changes I make to the Bluetooth adapted in the System Settings panel. Bluetooth can be disabled by default on startup by adding the following line to
