From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 18 22:17:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F24E816A403 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:17:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mime@traveller.cz) Received: from ss.eunet.cz (ss.eunet.cz [193.85.228.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C5A9543D6D for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:17:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mime@traveller.cz) Received: from localhost.i.cz (ss.eunet.cz [193.85.228.13]) by ss.eunet.cz (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8IMHH4B094477 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:17:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from mime@traveller.cz) From: Michal Mertl To: Doug Barton In-Reply-To: <450F137F.6060000@dougbarton.us> References: <450F137F.6060000@dougbarton.us> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 00:17:09 +0200 Message-Id: <1158617829.1062.4.camel@genius.i.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone using thinkpad R series? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:17:29 -0000 Doug Barton wrote: > Still poking around the laptop issue, and I'm wondering if anyone has > experience (good, bad, ugly) with the thinkpad R series. Specifically > I'm looking at the R60 atm. The problem I'm having is to find the > right combination of features. I don't really want a wide screen, > which rules out the Z series. The T series doesn't have any compatible > combinations of fast processors and non-ATI x1nnn cards (which I > understand are badly/not supported in X). The X series are nice, but I > don't think I could live with the tiny screen, and I really want the > faster processor. > > That leaves the R series, but I don't really recall too many people > posting about them, so I can't help wondering if there is something > fundamentally wrong here. I have been using R51 for with FreeBSD for about 2 years. It works very well (except suspend to RAM consumes power almost as if the machine was running no matter what I do and the optical drive is crap (I have 4th and it doesn't work again!)). I don't think the current models have much in common anymore so it is probably not much relevant. Michal