[ltp] Searching for an old IBM warhorse

[John Morton]

This may be late as I get the digest.

 > Could you tell me which IBM notebook is in your opinion the warhorse
 > > until know. I do not mean which one is the fastest or newest.
 > > I'm searching for the one which seems to be the most stable and 
reliable
 > > one. Which model still works after years of extensive use for 
example by
 > > your sales representatives (In my opinion the worst scenario for a
 > > notebook  ;)  )?

 > 600x is the perfect Linux notebook. The only thing you might have to
 > fiddle with a little is the XOrg configuration. Also make sure you
 > boot with ACPI and local APIC turned off. Debian found everything but 
 > the configuration of the video. Once you add the information that 
it's > capable of 1024 x 768, you're golden.


And I'll echo this too.
The 600X is a gem.
Robust, reliable, no slouch either with maxed out memory - W2K or Linux.
Here's my twopennyworth.
Don't fall for a 600E, it's significantly different internally, even 
though physically it looks the same.
600E has a Pentium 2 (P3 in the X), lower memory limitation, 
sound/interrupt problems with Linux. And the 600E HDD is smaller, older, 
thicker, slower and noisier (you'd hate the whine in a quiet 
environment). The 600X really is surprisingly quiet.

Ubuntu installs happily with same provisos.
Mainly:  noapic nolapic acpci=off apm=on (just to make sure!)
floppy=thinkpad (not sure if this is necessary but it works)


HTH
John Morton