Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:03:33 -0700 From: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> To: Kurt Buff <kurt.buff@gmail.com> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify? Message-ID: <20080904180332.GB33782@thought.org> In-Reply-To: <a9f4a3860809031918i68a007e6vb281ce283b2629e4@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080904015322.GA6544@thought.org> <a9f4a3860809031918i68a007e6vb281ce283b2629e4@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 07:18:13PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: > I got a Thinkpad T61 back in May/June that had 4gig factory-installed. > Dual core, but only 2.2GHz - I could've gotten a faster proc, but I > wasn't willing to pay the price. I did splurge on a 120gbyte 7200rpm > drive, though. Came with SUSE on it, too, but I've got it dual booting > with FreeBSD 7 amd64. Works great, except that the native FireFox and > all other web browsers I've tried crash (no core, nothing, it just > disappears) on the javascript on a lot of web sites, including gmail. > Haven't had the time to pursue that one very much, though I've asked > on this list a few times. Dumb-question-dept:: is the "dual-core 2.2GHz == 4.4GHz" single processor? I just bought my daughter a MacBook dual-core 2.4 and have been wondering. --Also, time to get her hooked on Unix:) I'm not sure what model these 3.0GHz is; but IBM cheaped out on the memory (256-512M) and they're all 40-60G max drive. So just wondering how far these used laptops can go. Since I'll be running 7.1 or Ubuntu, no need for **super** fast. You browsers crashes are curious. FF-2 crashed consistantly here on my Dell, 7.0. The others: no problem. FF3 seems to work fine except that I'm having troublr with flash. (I've tried both native anf the linux-fixefox. same thing. gdb cannot grok the core dumps, so rather than waste time, I just KVM over to my Ubuntu system.) gary > > > Kurt > > On Wed, Sep 3, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> wrote: > > > > Folks, > > > > I'm looking at a 3GHz ThinkPad w/out any OS. It's got > > at most 512M memory and only 40G drive. The guy I'm going to > > have upgrade this l'top thinks it will take a 160GB drive easily. > > Also that the RAM might max out at just 2GB. > > > > Any fellow TP-people onlist who know if my friend is right? > > > > -- > > Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix > > http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org -- Gary Kline kline@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org
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