[ltp] Thinkpad model differences

[Ben Pfaff]

Bret Comstock Waldow <bwaldow@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> My T21 fits most of your criteria, however...
> 
> On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 17:42, Tom Hoover wrote:
> 
> > 3 hr battery life (so I can watch a complete movie without plugging in)
> 
> I'd be surprised if any battery powerecd machine can run a DVD spindle
> for 90 minutes.  Power savings usually means slowing down non-essential
> systems (like the CPU when it's twiddling it's thumbs waiting for
> keyboard input, etc).  I may be out of date, but running that motor that
> long may still be beyond any batteries we can buy and carry.

My T30 has 1 GB RAM.  That's enough to buffer a lot of DVD.  Just
slurp it into memory in a few big reads instead of keeping it
spinning all the time.
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