Thinkcentre

M715q power usage and the BSDes

2026-10-13 995 words, 5 minutes
freebsd
homelab
netbsd
openbsd
selfhost
thinkcentre

Following previous post where using M720q as a desktop machine was considered not that good, someone on the Fediverse pointed me to the AMD versions of ThinkCentre. Having noticed that ATI/AMD/Radeon GPU do seem to work pretty well on OpenBSD, I got a refurbished ThinkCentre M715q and had a look at it.

What about ThinkCentre M710q, M720q and *BSD

2026-09-29 1457 words, 7 minutes
freebsd
homelab
netbsd
openbsd
selfhost
thinkcentre

Thanks to being subscribed to self-hosting and homelab feeds, I yet again was trapped by compulsive buying and collector’s impulse while browsing the local refurb marketplaces. This may end now. Until then, here’s a quick look at ThinkCentre M710q and M720q on various BSD systems.