[ltp] Re: Z61p/Z61m experiences needed

[Johannes Boy]

Well, I brought a z61p a while ago and I had nothing but troubles with
it  (on Fedora Core 5 & 6). But then again, I'm not really experienced
with linux so maybe thats the trouble...
Anyway, some points:
- The ATI Mobility FireGL V5200 is nothing but trouble. You have to
use the ATI driver because the opensource driver does not support it
yet (maybe it works with a little "force", not sure)
- I couldn't get suspend2 to work, not sure why. Prolly my own fault
for not wanting to mess with the settings for a couple of days
- The notebook itself isn't too well manufactured... especially the
monitor was attached a bit sloppy. By now, it sometimes makes funny
sounds when opening/closing. Seems to be a bit loose. Also, apparently
I have some sort of overheating problem with the CPUs so I'll have to
send it in for repairs, but I can't because of my studies.

Looking back, I should have brought an older model, back from the days
when Lenovo didn't mess everything up ;-p

On 1/15/07, Anthony J Moulen <ajmoulen@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Sunday 14 January 2007 18:20, Richard Neill wrote:
> > Paul Michael Reilly wrote:
> > > George Ruinelli wrote:
> > >> Hello all
> > >>
> > >> I want to buy a new thinkpad and doesn't know which one is the best.
> > >> In the selection are the Z61p (UA1J6SG) and the Z61m (UA19JS{G,F,E})
> > >>
> > >> The Z61m's seem to be well supported on linux, while I can't find many
> > >> informations about the Z61p in the www.
> > >>
> > >> Because the battery longevity  and the RAM, I would prefer the Z61p.
> >
> > I'd recommend the T60p instead - the 15" 1600x1200 screen is brilliant,
> > and it has the same area as the (allegedly bigger) "widescreen" 17"
> > display of the Z60s. My T60p works very well indeed with Ubuntu 6.10.
> >
> I own a Z61M, but an older model than you are looking at, mine has the core
> dou with a 2ghz process.  My suggestion is buy a machine as it is stocked, if
> you want more memory buy it separately as you will pay an arm and a leg for
> them to install it and it is very easy to do yourself.  But as the previous
> poster mentioned, I would suggest the T60P with the widescreen display, it
> really has most of the features of the Z61 and is lighter.  If I had the
> choice months ago when I bought mine I would have gone with the T60
> widescreen.
>
> I have suspend2 both ram and disk, although ram seems to eventually corrupt
> itself in KDE and I lose KDE apps.  I had the fingerprint reader working but
> not in a way that I found it useful so I disabled it in Linux, I do use it
> for windows the 3 times I have booted windows since October.  I don't have
> bluetooth in my machine yet, although I intend to buy the part and try to
> install it assuming that the antenna is there.  I can't say I have tried Xgl
> yet because I am too lazy ;-).  Definitely go with a Core 2 Dou device not a
> Core Dou, it makes no sense to get the 32bit version now if you are even
> considering keeping the windows partition around as you won't get all the
> features of Vista without 64bit.
>
> Good luck on your purchase.
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