From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Mar 4 17:54:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8504737B719 for ; Sun, 4 Mar 2001 17:54:07 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 2E2456A918; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:24:05 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2001 12:24:05 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Nate Puri Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of support in thinkpad T21 Message-ID: <20010305122405.C7120@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010304183557.11868.qmail@web3301.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010304183557.11868.qmail@web3301.mail.yahoo.com>; from natepuri@yahoo.com on Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 10:35:57AM -0800 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 4 March 2001 at 10:35:57 -0800, Nate Puri wrote: > Hi all, > > I was researching this for a while yesterday. > The freebsd mailinglists seem to be saying that > thinkpad T21 now boots and X and sound can work. This depends on your BIOS revision. Check the IBM web site for the low-down, and also make sure that the laptop you get has the latest BIOS. > I'd like to stick to a laptop that is well supported beefy but not > too heavy and from a co that gives awesome service. Is this the T21 > the one for me? I have heard bad things about IBM service. If that's what you want, you're probably better off with Dell. I've been considering getting a ThinkPad, and I've decided I'd rather stay with Dell. The keyboard and eraser-head pointer are two things I don't like about the ThinkPad. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message