Got this laptop back around 2016. Its been sitting a while due to dead battery and old failing hard drive. It still turns on but dies if unplugged. The 17 inch touchscreen looks really good all these years later and is the nicest portable tablet type screen I have laying around. The laptop folds flat so it really is like handling a big slightly heavy tablet.

Ive been getting back into reading comics. Going out and buying single issues was fun at first but its starting to be a hassle so I’m exploring options to comfortably read some digitally on the cheap with open source software and cbz/CBR files.

So I Ioaded the laptop with Linux Mint 22 XFCE and installed koreader. Its my favorite ereader software glad its a flatpak. Let’s you switch page orientation easily for wide spreads, isolate panels to zoom in, tweak to your liking.

Ive been enjoying it so much I think I may invest in a replacement battery and solid state harddrive to bring it back to life. Amazing that it still looks so good.