From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 18:03:41 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 903301065671 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:03:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from aristotle.thought.org (aristotle.thought.org [209.180.213.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BE258FC0A for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 18:03:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (tao.thought.org [10.47.0.250]) (authenticated bits=0) by aristotle.thought.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m84I3inN093171; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:03:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: by thought.org (nbSMTP-1.00) for uid 1002 kline@thought.org; Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:03:33 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:03:33 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Kurt Buff Message-ID: <20080904180332.GB33782@thought.org> References: <20080904015322.GA6544@thought.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 22 years of service to the Unix community. X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.4 required=3.6 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.2.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on aristotle.thought.org Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:03:41 -0000 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 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