The adoption of BCH is achieved by using it.

I've been procrastinating on the enjoyment of writing to read.cash for a week. I think this call it; writer's block! Well, I will not continue denying myself said pleasure.

In the last article, I wrote about the possibility of acquiring a laptop to continue sharing with the community. Yesterday, I purchased a Lenovo Thinkpad 11e with a 6th generation I3 processor (Refurbished).

The search was intense. Perhaps this is one of the causes that kept me away from the typing keyboard. Moreover, other factors that I did not consider.

Let me tell you!

My first laptop was a Thinkpad 600e, which I still have in my electronics graveyard. I bought it during a refurbished equipment sale at IBM's headquarters in my country's capital.

I enjoyed the power of its Pentium 2 processor, 256MB of RAM, and 20GB of a hard drive running Ms-Windows 98.

After ten years of using it flawlessly, a cousin got me a so-called bargain, an HP Pavilion DV6000. Very nice but also a headache due to the design problems caused by overheating, the desoldering of the processor, and video failure.

Also, the Hp laptop was a bit heavy, so I decided to buy another Thinkpad with the 2010 year-end bonus. It was no longer from IBM but Lenovo. The Thinkpad Edge E.

You tell me, friend, what does this background influence with the acquisition of the new laptop?

Well, I think it has a lot to do with it.

The reason for the renewal of the computer was to ensure continuity when writing here in the community. So I also decided that the financial resources would come from the BCH fund. Yes, from tips earned during my stay on noise.cash, and read.cash.

Everyone in my home has a laptop, except for my daughter, who has just arrived from abroad after five years of absence. In this sense, we are fortunate. At times of abundance, it was possible to acquire objects for personal use, where for me, laptops fit perfectly.

Sure, one can share the same laptop with a different user without affecting privacy. But in practice, it is not the same as having one exclusively for oneself.

Now you understand, I changed the priorities. My daughter needs a laptop.

Also, my son has long complained about the Thinkpad Edge E. He's crazy about selling it to get a more powerful one for gaming and video editing, but no one wants to pay him what he asks.

Perhaps this is the time to renovate the computer park at home. Hahaha

Although the Thinkpad Edge E is a few months older than my MacBook Air 13; It is still a good option. In this sense, performing maintenance and renewing the wireless card that fails, as well as replacing the exhausted battery, does not seem so far-fetched; if only yes, Linux can revive its performance.

Source: Screenshot of Linux Manjaro snapshots on my son's Lenovo ThinkPad Edge

I have a week testing the Lenovo Thinkpad Edge E with Linux Manjaro on a 128 GB SSD with 2 GB of RAM, and it works great, except for the disabled wireless card, which forces me to connect to the network via cable.

My son observes the renewed performance of the laptop but is not impressed; he still wants a computer with a performance comparable to my wife's laptop, a Lenovo Thinkpad E560 with a 6th generation I5 processor.

Like you have noticed, After my MacBook Air, there is a preference for Lenovo's Thinkpad models. The reasons, simple; quality, performance, and reliability at a reasonable price.

Source: Image by author

Well, I still have some in-house customer satisfaction and logistics issues to resolve, but I'm closer now than I was a week ago.

I just called the supplier, yesterday I paid him the equivalent of $ 250 for the new laptop. Yes, $ 100 less than budgeted. The most fabulous, to be more exact, I paid 0.36895467 Bitcoin Cash. That is, without change to fiat money, to a local provider.

However, due to traffic restrictions under the radical preventive week of Covid, it will be until tomorrow that I will be able to remove the laptop.

Final thoughts

Without my intending it, this article is the continuation of the previous one. Although it differs tangentially in initial purpose, it is not unrelated.

In the beginning, the computer was for me. A contingency measure in the event of a failure of my MacBook Air, but as you have read, it will end up in the hands of my daughter.

By the way, she is an excellent content creator on traditional social networks that mainly use smartphones. I do not doubt that she will soon enter the fantastic world of cryptocurrencies with Bitcoin Cash.

In the meantime, I will continue to test Linux Manjaro on my son's laptop. If it satisfies the minimum requirements and I manage to make the wireless card work, I will keep it as a backup laptop. Also, I will proceed to the exhaustive maintenance of the MacBook Air with a specialized technical service.

So it would be pending to meet my son's expectations.

On the other hand, I am relatively happy to use BCH as a means of payment without resorting to an Exchange. And I mean "relatively" because the laptop merchant uses the UpHold wallet and not, a non-custodial wallet. I suppose this is a reality with which you have to live until you achieve the massive adoption of cryptos.

An original article by @Jnavedan

Cover image by sarinharas from Pixabay modified by me.