Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 19:51:48 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some old fashioned assistance requested, and some oppinions wanted. Message-ID: <80f4f2b20610251651w530a07c2y10809f7a09ddd733@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20061025175825.CC9294504D@ptavv.es.net> References: <80f4f2b20610250230v71343b2cie9934104eff60a98@mail.gmail.com> <20061025175825.CC9294504D@ptavv.es.net>
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OK, though my biggest concern was how they treated their customers in hardware support. As a benchmark, Toshiba is the first company that could actually give me something as obscure as the PCMCIA controller chipset when I called - and this was the first layer of tech support. The vendors I had delt with previously couldn't even give me the video chipsets some times. The only one that this wasn't tested on lied and voided my warantee... I was so sick of them at that point, I couldn't bring up the energy to fight it until it was way too late. As for Toshiba, they have pretty much bent over backwards except where non-windows was concerned, and even there they had made some pretty decent efforts. I really don't want to loose that, but I also want to deal with my OS of choice. Also, because of my vision, and now that I actually have the money to afford a real laptop (and someone to buy my "old" one off me), it would be ideal for me to get a tablet. -Jim Stapleton On 10/25/06, Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net> wrote: > > Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:30:04 -0400 > > From: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org > > > > addendum: > > > > How are the Lenovo notebooks, now that they are no longer associated > > with IBM whatsoever? > > That is a very broad and probably invalid statement as IBM has a > presence on the Lenovo board and ThinkPad development is still being > done in the US (North Carolina) by pretty much the same group of > engineers. Of course, there are likely some strategic changes from > Lenovo in China that are impacting things. > > The T60 Core Duo systems look pretty good, although they all come with > the dreaded 3945 wireless card. You can get am Athlon, but they are no > longer "standard" upgrades. You get the system either without wireless or > you replace the installed wireless card with the Atheros. > > HDA audio seems to be working, but I have done no serious testing since > my laptop is an older T43 and the owner of the T60 does not use FreeBSD > on it. > > The only REALLY new ThinkPad member is the Z series and I have no > experience with them. > -- > R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer > Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) > Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) > E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 > Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751 > > >
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