Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 21:02:41 -0500 From: "Yuri Lukin" <lists@swaggi.com> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>,freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for a new laptop: Thinkpad? Message-ID: <20071113014130.M61290@swaggi.com> In-Reply-To: <20071112203003.73ba3c5b.wmoran@potentialtech.com> References: <20071112203003.73ba3c5b.wmoran@potentialtech.com>
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On Mon, 12 Nov 2007 20:30:03 -0500, Bill Moran wrote > My old Thinkpad is starting to act a bit weird. Battery isn't always > charging right ... sometimes it doesn't wake up ... CD-ROM is dead. > > So, I'm thinking it's time for a new one. > > Does anyone have any experience (good or bad) to share regarding the > new Thinkpads? I'm considering either an R or T. I have a T61 with Core 2 Duo T7300 Widescreen with Nvidia Quadro NVS 140 running fine with RELENG_7. I specifically ordered mine with the Atheros-based MiniPCI card so wireless worked out of the box with the ath driver. Bluetooth works (BCM2045B), just need to add ubtbcmfw_load="YES" to loader.conf. Running Xorg 7.3 at 1680x1050 using nvidia driver from nvnews.net. Have not yet tested built-in firewire (fwohci) and LAN (em) ports but assuming they work since they are detected by the kernel. The only thing that doesn't work is the SD/MMC card reader (Ricoh chipset) but there was recently some noise in freebsd-mobile@ I think so it looks to be a work in progress. Mine also came with built-in WUSB but afaik there's no support for it yet. I get about 2 hours on the standard battery and have not played around with power settings just yet. You can load acpi_ibm for some additional knobs, have not looked into very much so not sure what you can do with that. > Also, anyone have any experience getting a Windows refund after > buying one of these? Mine will _not_ run Windows, and I'd like to > get refunded for their monopoly. There seems to be some bullshit where > Micrsoft claims that the hardware vendor has to refund, and the > vendor claims that it's MS' job. Anyone have any experience with > this? I didn't realize you could do this, that's why I ordered mine with the cheapest configuration: XP Home. Yuri
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