[ltp] Buying a T41p

[Martin Man]

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On Sat, Mar 27, 2004 at 04:16:07PM +1100, Cameron McCormack wrote:
> Hi everyone.

Yup,

[having T41p for one week now]

>   1. How would the 1.7GHz Pentium M compare to, say, my desktop 2.4 GHz
>      Pentium 4 machine?  At the moment I'm doing a lot of Java 2D
>      graphics development work, and I don't want it to be much slower
>      than my desktop.  I have read articles saying that the performance
>      of Centrino machines with a given processor speed are comparable to
>      P4s with a higher speed.  Is this correct?

cannont comment on, since I haven't seen a desktop PC for almost three years
now, from the C/C++ compiling point of view it looks fast enough...

>   4. For those of you running Linux on this model Thinkpad, could you
>      give me a brief list of the things that don't work properly (if
>      any)?

I was yet unable to get Irda working, but it should be doable, some playing
with setserial, bios and irda-utils should make it work

bluetooth ok, usb ok, pcmcia ok, X11 ok, suspend/hibernation ok (APM), cd
writing ok, touchpad/trackpoint ok, special IBM keys ok, sound ok (has to
forcibly rmmod-ed from kernel before suspending), eth ok, wifi works with
ndiswrapper.sf.net (included in debian) or ipw2100.sf.net - both have some
problems with suspending/resuming, cpufreqd should be ok (didn't have a chance
to play with it yet), modem untested

> Thanks a lot,
> Cameron
> Cameron McCormack

HTH,
martin

p.s. form factor and overall feeling of this notebook is just great, looks
much more stable than my previous HP OB500

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