[ltp] Why do you love your ThinkPad?

[Lenz Grimmer]

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Hi,

Paul Cuciureanu wrote:

>  .. let's assume for a second, each of us is one of those people that
> keep ranting on forever about their computers, etc..
> 
> Why do you Love your ThinkPad?

T42, 512MB RAM, 80GB Disk, 1400x1050, Radeon Mobility 9600, running SUSE
Linux 9.3. I use it as my main workstation at home, connected to an
external Samsung SyncMaster 920T (Using Xinerama with the builtin
display) and a Cherry CyMotion Wireless Keyboard/Mouse (via USB).

What I love:

 - Excellent keyboard
 - The Trackpoint (I disabled the trackpad in the BIOS)
 - It's very quiet
 - Great display and screen resolution, good display quality on the
   external VGA
 - Infrared, Bluetooth and 802.11g wlan builtin and working under Linux
 - Excellent Linux support. Almost everything Just Works out of the box,
   including suspend to disk/RAM
 - Good sound quality from both the internal speaker and the builtin
   microphone. Not HiFi, but quite usable.
 - decent 3D performance for playing a game every once in a while
 - a robust and nicely designed case with an elegant black finish
 - the UltraBay for an additional battery when travelling

What annoys me:

 - the proprietary ATI graphics driver that still does not support
   suspending to disk/RAM.
 - hot-swapping with the UltraBay does not work as smoothly as on
   Windows. You need to reboot with the CD-ROM drive inserted to get it
   recognized
 - the DVD/CD-R burner is quite slow in burning CDs and reading some CDs
 - when running tight on memory and swapping occurs, the system becomes
   quite slow (hard disk I/O performance could be better). But that can
   be fixed with more RAM :)

Bye,
	LenZ
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