Jan "Jenkings" Škoda

I got a Lenovo Yoga 300 a few weeks ago. My friend sent it to me in exchange for a broken 3D printer I gave him.

Despite the fact that the post office completely destroyed its plastics during shipping, I decided to make it work. Initially there were some problems with the battery and the drive. The drive looked OK when I got it, but the battery was .... tricky. It was caused by a broken connector. So I disassembled the connector from the motherboard, and carefully pinned all the wires from the battery directly to it.

After some tinkering it looked like it was working. So I moved on to installing the system. I decided to install Xubuntu. After a few tries I managed to get it to boot from USB and installed the system. After rebooting and unplugging the USB it said "no bootable devices detected". So another installation with different BIOS settings, another reboot and the same result...

It took me about three hours, but I finally found a solution to get it working.

But I was disappointed again. I wanted to use the notebook to take notes with a pen. I thought the touch screen was good enough, as I now use another laptop that was the predecessor to this one, before the line was renamed Yoga, to take notes. Unfortunately, this one is utter crap. The touch screen casts the touches as swipes rather than mouse movements, so it is a bit tricky to use, but worse still, it does not work with an active stylus, making note-taking absolutely impossible.

So much work for almost nothing. The notebook will just become part of my collection, as an example of completely wasted potential...