Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2004 00:33:52 +0200 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: Bob Collins <bobc@anything-inc.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Best Laptop Message-ID: <xzpad1yq81b.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <20040330220947.GA45392@yoda.anything-inc.com> (Bob Collins's message of "Tue, 30 Mar 2004 17:09:47 -0500") References: <40686157.3020902@cs.uiowa.edu> <20040330201107.GA95453@empiric.dek.spc.org> <xzphdw6q9jn.fsf@dwp.des.no> <20040330220947.GA45392@yoda.anything-inc.com>
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Bob Collins <bobc@anything-inc.com> writes: > Wow, considering that, I had no issues other than having to use > OLDKERNEL to get my pcm slots working, my TP600X runs 4.9 perfectly. So > much for the above. I've had three ThinkPads, including a 600E. All of them had problems running FreeBSD. The 600E even had problems running Windows 2000 and XP, even though it had a sticker on it that said "designed for Microsoft Windows". Problems I've experienced include: - original battery dies, brand new replacement battery also dies within months - increasingly severe trackpoint drift culminated in the trackpoint being completely unusable, keyboard / trackpoint unit was replaced, symptoms reappeared months later. - BIOS detects trackpoint malfunction during POST, and refuses to boot without first running complete systems diagnostic (which takes about half an hour and requires a working mouse because the BIOS setup / diagnostic utility is graphical rather than text-based) - laptop suddenly decides to suspend even though AC is plugged in; upon resume, runs for 30 seconds before suspending again, etc. Once this kicks in, laptop is unusable. The only remedy I found was to clear NVRAM in BIOS setup. - DOS / Windows utility required to select RS232 instead of IrDA, because BIOS setup utility has practically no useful functionality besides "select boot device" and "set boot password". > And considering the troubles I have had with office based Dell > Brickbooks (at 9 pounds or so, they are not really portable) Inspirons > and Latitudes, I would not use them if I could do otherwise. That's disingenious. Both IBM and Dell have a variety of models, some designed for performance and others designed for low weight. The Latitude C and D series belong to the former category, as does the ThinkPad 600 series. My ThinkPad 600E and my Latitude D600 both weigh slightly less than 6 lbs, while a Latitude X300 weighs less than 3 lbs according to Dell's website. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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