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ClawPad: Claude running on an old ThinkPad
An open-source project that gives Claude a home on an old ThinkPad, used as a dedicated personal AI machine. Commenters on Hacker News and Reddit called old ThinkPads a solid choice for this.
Credits
- Repository account marshallrichards Source ↗
The full story
ClawPad gives Claude a permanent home on an old ThinkPad. The author set up a spare ThinkPad X200 with Debian 13 and the simple i3 window manager, and let Claude Code use the whole machine as a shared workspace for everyday tasks and experiments.
The repository holds the scripts and settings for doing the same: an installer for the i3 desktop, the author's CLAUDE.md instructions file as inspiration, and a voice interface for talking to Claude. The author's advice is to have the agent stick to old, reliable Linux tools, which they say leads to surprisingly good results. It also works with OpenClaw, OpenCode and similar agents.
Details are thin: a repository and some discussion, without a full write-up.
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From the maker's own write-up or code. We summarise what they report; we haven't tested it ourselves.
- GitHub: marshallrichards/ClawPadRepository account: marshallrichards
Scripts, configs and an i3 desktop installer for running AI agents on an old ThinkPad.