From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 18 23:40:25 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 1C5BF16A403 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:40:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx24.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 283A043D46 for ; Mon, 18 Sep 2006 23:40:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 2843 invoked by uid 399); 18 Sep 2006 23:40:23 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.3?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 18 Sep 2006 23:40:23 -0000 Message-ID: <450F2E65.8010608@FreeBSD.org> Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2006 16:40:21 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 (X11/20060917) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ruslan Ermilov References: <450F137F.6060000@dougbarton.us> <20060918224704.GB20647@rambler-co.ru> In-Reply-To: <20060918224704.GB20647@rambler-co.ru> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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 23:40:25 -0000 Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 02:45:35PM -0700, 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. >> > http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/ > > It has some R series listed. Yeah, older models though, I was hoping for something more recent. Still, nice to see it's not hopeless. :) Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection