[ltp] r40 fan

Gregor R. Goldmann gregorrg at cs.tu-berlin.de
Wed Apr 16 01:11:27 CEST 2003


On Tue, 15 Apr 2003, Tino Keitel wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 15, 2003 at 18:41:00 +0200, Gregor R. Goldmann wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am buying an R series Thinkpad for a friend. She is very noise
> > sensitive and wants a silent notebook. I just held a R32 with P4 2GHz
> > in a hand and noticed that the cpu fan is rotating all the time.
> >
> > The centrino 1.3 GHz from the R40 model should produce less heat. Can
> > somebody report his/her experience with the R40 fan?
>
> There is no R40 with a Centrino processor. AFAIK only the T40 is
> currently available with a Centrino processor.
There are, see www.nofost.de (NOtebooks FOr STudents), which offers
several TP configurations to students and university staff in Germany.

The R40 with Mobile Pentium M (which is a part of centrino technology,
afaik) and 6,2 hours battery life:
http://www.nofost.de/shop/shopfiles/product.asp?TID=142ZRQQ92B6W&OLDTID=E5TK60I15B0W&PS=1&PID=10243

Gregor



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