The Lenovo ThinkPad X230i features an Intel Core i3 2370M processor. The device was purchased in Dalian, China, for ¥420. The package included a laptop bag and a wired mouse. The unit came with 4 GB of RAM and a 120 GB SSD.
The original battery was replaced with a KingSener 8400 mAh nine-cell unit, costing 2700 ₽. This upgrade provides approximately 7 hours of battery life. The RAM configuration was updated to 6 GB by replacing a 2 GB module with a 4 GB one.
The laptop runs Void Linux with Musl libc and the XFCE desktop environment. System memory usage at startup is approximately 300 MB to 520 MB, depending on the monitoring tool used. The device is used for web browsing, Vim, and Thunderbird.
Performance testing with llama.cpp using the Gemma 4 E2B model (Q5_K_XL quantization) resulted in a speed of 3.8 tokens per second. The hardware is limited by its DDR3 1333 MHz memory and the lack of AVX2 instruction set support in the processor.
