I picked up a x230 running coreboot as a nixos laptop. This is the result of the nuc basically being used for all sorts of little services and not really being useful as a desktop. I also thought it would be fun to have a little linux laptop again.

The good points:

• Nixos is great - installed easily, split my existing configuration into a common template, all is well.

The bad:

• The keyboard came with the UK layout which still sucks. I will have to try replacing it.
• Gosh, the spec and hardware are bad. I rebuilt the kernel for latencytop, and it took hours.
• I was also surprised at the lack of HDMI and the thinkpad power plug.
  • I recall having one of these as my main laptop ~10 years ago.