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 It was a lot of fun :-)
 
+=== Tue, 28th October - Daneel and Giskard ==
+
+{{Daneel.jpg|Daneel, my faithful Apple iBook}}
+
+My old PowerPC iBook served me well for over 5 years, accompanied me around the
+world twice or so, carrying three Linux distros on the same hard drive.  Not to
+mention all the stickers, which conferred it great hacker value.  One month ago,
+the integrated ATI GPU broke beyond any possibility of repair.
+
+Such a great loss had to be compensated with something at least half as cool.
+I chose a lightweight Lenovo Thinkpad X200s, with a LED backlit 12" display, a
+low-voltage U9300 processor and **no** stupid CD reader or writer.
+
+Today my package was delivered home and I installed Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid, just
+one day before the official release.
+
+{{http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3061/2932872936_c7a3b17a95.jpg | Giskard, my new Lenovo Thinkpad X200s}}
 
 === Mon, 27th October - Embedded Systems Conference Boston ===