[ltp] Thinkpad 600X System Board

Antiphon linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 15 Oct 2003 20:36:48 -0400


Speaking of 600Xes, I'm curious as to what X environments those who are using 
a 600X run. I'd like to run WindowMaker but find that its icons are too large 
and do not scale nicely. GNOME has always been buggy for me, working for a 
while and then getting messed up by itself. Mainly I run XFCE4 and KDE (slow 
at times but powerful).

I just wish there was a decent, small footprint GTK 2.0 mail app. I don't like 
how Thunderbird gives every account its own Sent, Drafts, Trash, Spam ... 
folders. Balsa doesn't work very well imho. Sylpheed is still GTK+. Any 
others I haven't tried yet? 

While I'm at it, does anyone know whatever happened to the Skipstone project? 
It was an extremely stripped down Mozilla app that was very fast to start up. 
They haven't released anything for quite some time :-(

On Wednesday 15 October 2003 05:02 pm, brianweber4@comcast.net wrote:
> Scott,
>
> On ebay. Search for 12P3224, there will be several for $89.00. The 600X
> system board I got was in a sealed IBM box complete with IBM tamper evident
> tape.
>
> The board will fit into a 600E case with case modifications. The sound jack
> area of the case as well as the memory cover area of a 600E case require
> some trimming. The only other proplem is that the mini PCI card opening is
> not on a 600E case. But, that's not such a bid deal.
>
> The 600E modem and video out card will not fit the 600X system board.
>
> Also, you can buy a 600X bottom case, I did for US $30.00 on ebay, so no
> trimming needed!
>
> Brian
>
> > Where did you see it for $90?
> >
> > Do you know if it's possible to use a 600X mother board in a 600E?
> >
> > Thanks
> > Scott
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-10-13 at 12:28, brianweber4@comcast.net wrote:
> > > I've seen the IBM Thinkpad Pentium III 600X system board 12P3224 going
> > > cheaply
> >
> > as of late (around $90.00 IBM used part, boxed by IBM).
> >
> > > I bought one and an using a PIII 500 and it works well.
> > >
> > > Has anyone any idea of the maximum Pentium III CPU frequency one can
> > > use with
> >
> > the 12P3224 system board.
> >
> > > Brian
> > >
> > > > On Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:01:11 -0700
> > > >
> > > > Michelle Klein-Hass <bosslady@mail.msgeek.com> wrote:
> > > > > Hi guys,
> > > > >
> > > > > Just a quick question about what everyone thinks of the Thinkpad
> > > > > 600E 366MHz and/or 400MHz as a good solid Linux laptop.
> > > >
> > > > Plus:	Good size/weight (unless you're used to a TP 240 :) )
> > > > 	Reasonably fast.
> > > >
> > > > Minus:	Sound can be a PITA (must be manually configured)
> > > > 	You must compile drivers for the internal mwave modem yourself.
> > > > 	Hard disk these models come with is slow - spend a few $$ on faster
> > > > disk.
> > > > 	You have to do a little fiddling to reawaken sound/modem after a
> > > > suspend.
> > > > 	No 3D, but otherwise good video support.  (DVD/VideoCD works great)
> > > >
> > > > Overall, they're good machines for Linux.
> > > >
> > > > Sound: http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-4BP6Q6.html
> > > > Modem: http://www-124.ibm.com/acpmodem/
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > > *  Charles Taylor <tomalek@mindspring.com>
> > > > *  Chemistry teacher, Linux enthusiast!
> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------
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