looking at an IBM ThinkPad T41

[Bob Bishop]

At 22:02 09/06/2004, Dan Langille wrote:
>Hi folks,
>
>On Friday, I'll be looking at an IBM ThinkPad T41, 1.4GHZ, 256 ram,
>30GB drive, modem, lan, dvd player, cd burner, Intel PRO/Wireless
>Network Connection 802.11b, Integrated Intel PRO/1000 Gigabit
>Ethernet, 1yr warranty, Windows XP Pro (which I'll leave on, and dual
>boot).

Sounds identical to this one, which dual boots XP and 5.2.1, except that I 
added an extra 512M of RAM. You'll have fun freeing up space for a FreeBSD 
partition - I booted the CD, deleted the XP partition, created the 
partitions I wanted, then quit and ran the Windows restore from the BIOS 
setup to reload the preinstall from the hidden restore partition on the 
HDD. If it's open-box you'll probably want to reload the preinstall anyway.

See 
http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/index.pl?action=show_laptop_detail&laptop=307 
for other essential info.

I've had this T41 for 3 months and I'm really impressed. It replaced a 
TP600E which had served me well for 5 years.

>Price: CAD$1720 (that's about US$1300)
>
>It's open-box (meaning it's been to a customer, and returned within 7
>days).
>
>If it's anything like the T22 I had, I'm sure I'll love it.
>
>One thing mentioned to me on IRC: load the system see if the fan goes
>on, then unload, and see if the fan goes off.  Perhaps this was for
>the T40's but I'm not sure.
>
>When I visit the shop, I'll be taking my FreeSBIE CD with me.
>
>cheers
>--
>Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/
>BSDCan - http://www.bsdcan.org/
>
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