[ltp] Thinkpad model differences

Tino Keitel linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 9 May 2003 14:54:11 +0200


On Fri, May 09, 2003 at 08:30:46 -0400, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-05-09 at 03:15, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> That makes sense.  I'm curious - it isn't clear from what you wrote that
> you actually do this.  Have you made it work?  Can you watch an entire
> movie on battery power?
> 
> It may not work on my machine as the T21 can hold a maximum of 512Mb of
> RAM.

A DVD with 1 GB of contents is somewhat...uhm... short, isn't it? I
would rather rip it to the hard disk and watch it without a DVD drive.

Regards,
Tino

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