[ltp] ThinkPad X60

[Dario Lopez-Kästen]

Igor V. Rafienko wrote:
> 
> I am curious -- why X60 and not X4x ?

performance. The X60 seems to be around the size of the x41 machines but 
performance CPU-wize is more along the lines af my current P4 2 GHz Dell 
laptop, something the x41 seemed not to be.

> 
> 
> <http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X60>
> 
> ... lists the hardware for the X60, and it looks pretty ok. SATA support 
> should be fine (although you should look for "SATA problems with Linux" 
> on thinkwiki). By "fine" I mean 1) DMA 2) suspend-to-ram/hdd (my T43 
> supports that with a SATA controller). My only immediate concern is the 
> wireless card. It's pretty new, and I am not certain how good the 
> support would be with the ipw2200. Another thing you may want to 
> consider is dual core from the power usage point of view. Anandtech and 
> tom's hardware had somewhat contradicting reports on the subject (but 
> that is an OS-independent consideration).

I had found the wiki page, but was not aware that SATA support might be 
an issue. I pretty much expect the wireless card to be a problem, but I 
have an old Orinoco Silver PCMCIA card that I plan to use for the time 
being :-).

Thank you very much for the info.

Sincerely,

/dario

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