[ltp] Buying a T41p

[Justin Mason]

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Martin Man writes:
> 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...

Definitely fast enough, IMO -- my T40 feels a little *faster* than 
my Athlon 2100+ XP.

> >   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

Attempting to keep XP intact while getting APM suspend in linux working is
a world of pain, in my experience ;) Just get the install CDs from IBM,
and don't bother keeping the windows partition around.

- --j.
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