Looking for a new laptop: Thinkpad?

[Vladimir Botka]

Dne Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:02:41 -0500
"Yuri Lukin" <lists at swaggi.com> napsal(a):

> On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:30:03 -0500, Bill Moran wrote
> > My old Thinkpad is starting to act a bit weird.  Battery isn't
> > always charging right ... sometimes it doesn't wake up ... CD-ROM
> > is dead.
> > 
> > So, I'm thinking it's time for a new one.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any experience (good or bad) to share regarding the
> > new Thinkpads?  I'm considering either an R or T.
> 
> I have a T61 with Core 2 Duo T7300 Widescreen with Nvidia Quadro NVS
> 140 running fine with RELENG_7. I specifically ordered mine with the
> Atheros-based MiniPCI card so wireless worked out of the box with the
> ath driver. Bluetooth works (BCM2045B), just need to add
> ubtbcmfw_load="YES" to loader.conf. Running Xorg 7.3 at 1680x1050
> using nvidia driver from nvnews.net. Have not yet tested built-in
> firewire (fwohci) and LAN (em) ports but assuming they work since
> they are detected by the kernel. The only thing that doesn't work is
> the SD/MMC card reader (Ricoh chipset) but there was recently some
> noise in freebsd-mobile@ I think so it looks to be a work in
> progress. Mine also came with built-in WUSB but afaik there's no
> support for it yet. I get about 2 hours on the standard battery and
> have not played around with power settings just yet. You can load
> acpi_ibm for some additional knobs, have not looked into very much so
> not sure what you can do with that.    
> 
> > Also, anyone have any experience getting a Windows refund after 
> > buying one of these?  Mine will _not_ run Windows, and I'd like to 
> > get refunded for their monopoly.  There seems to be some bullshit
> > where Micrsoft claims that the hardware vendor has to refund, and
> > the vendor claims that it's MS' job.  Anyone have any experience
> > with this?
> 
> I didn't realize you could do this, that's why I ordered mine with the
> cheapest configuration: XP Home. 
> 
>  Yuri
> 


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