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Author: mjkloeckner <martinjkloeckner@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 19:32:23 -0300
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+<li><time>14-Oct-2023</time> <a href="/blog/spending-money-on-thinkpads/spending-money-on-thinkpads.html">Spending money on thinkpads</a></li>
<li><time>26-Oct-2022</time> <a href="/blog/bought-a-thinkpad/bought-a-thinkpad.html">I bought a ThinkPad x200 for $27</a></li>
<li><time>21-Oct-2022</time> <a href="/blog/testing-syntax-highlight/testing-syntax-highlight.html">Testing code syntax highlight</a></li>
<li><time>23-Sep-2022</time> <a href="/blog/nerdearla-2022/nerdearla-2022.html">I'm going to Nerdearla 2022</a></li>
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+<li><time>14-Oct-2023</time> <a href="/blog/spending-money-on-thinkpads/spending-money-on-thinkpads.html">Spending money on thinkpads</a></li>
<li><time>26-Oct-2022</time> <a href="/blog/bought-a-thinkpad/bought-a-thinkpad.html">I bought a ThinkPad x200 for $27</a></li>
<li><time>21-Oct-2022</time> <a href="/blog/testing-syntax-highlight/testing-syntax-highlight.html">Testing code syntax highlight</a></li>
<li><time>23-Sep-2022</time> <a href="/blog/nerdearla-2022/nerdearla-2022.html">I'm going to Nerdearla 2022</a></li>
<li><time>18-Sep-2022</time> <a href="/blog/sav/sav.html">Sorting Algorithms Visualized</a></li>
<li><time>23-Oct-2021</time> <a href="/blog/dwm-config/dwm-config.html">dwm - The dynamic window manager</a></li>
-<li><time>04-Mar-2021</time> <a href="/blog/vim-config/vim-config.html">vim - The keyboard driven text editor</a></li>
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+%%
+title: "Spending money on thinkpads"
+date: "14-Oct-2023"
+%%
+
+# Spending money on thinkpads
+
+This is both a happy and a sad post.
+
+
+
+For the last couple of years my country's currency has been facing a big
+devaluation, in fact is one of the countries with the most inflation rate per
+year in the world at the moment, I'm talking about Argentina.
+
+Also I bought my first thinkpad back in October 2022, a thinkpad x200 for $27
+which had no charger, and the seller didn't knew if it worked, I bought a
+charger for it, then did a full cleanup, installed an SSD, and it has been
+working perfectly since then. (I posted an
+[article](https://kloeckner.com.ar/blog/bought-a-thinkpad/bought-a-thinkpad.html)
+on my blog back then)
+
+As you can see in the picture the story doesn't ends there, in fact I bought
+more thinkpad products after that, since I was impressed by the build quality of
+the x200, and also because I noticed that there is an active market for them.
+
+A while ago I started to ask myself why do I spend money on thinkpads, the main
+reason of course is that this computers are so nice to tinker with, as an
+Electronics Engineer student I enjoy disassembling this machines to take a look
+at the design, and also to restore them into functionality, another reason and
+related to the country situation, is that I buy thinkpads because I don't want
+the money I had in my pockets to lose value, and I think this is a good
+justification, I love thinkpads but I also don't want my money to **devaluate**,
+and this is one of the main things the current government want you to do, spend
+money, this is what they achieve with printing money like crazy, they destroy
+the people saving capabilities, forcing them to spend money in things to prevent
+their money to devaluate.
+
+If we take for example the x200 that I bought first, I paid $8000 Argentine
+Pesos for it, which was around US $27 back then, today the $8000 would be
+equivalent to US $8, and it only passed a year.
+
+Of course this story has a happy side too, always has; during the last 12 months
+that I been a thinkpad owner I met people that also where into thinkpads, also
+people asking me or amazed by the modular design of the thinkpads, and people
+who listened to me when I explained to them why thinkpads are better that other
+computers haha.
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