[ltp] What to do if I suspect I've got a lemon T60?

[James Knott]

SOTL wrote:
> Whil Hentzen wrote:
> 
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I bought a T60 from PC Connection about a month ago. (Been buying from
>> them since 1982, never been unhappy with anything.) First thing I did,
>> natch, was blow away Windows and install FC5. Well, I tried to, that is.
> 
> Difficult to install on a laptop.
> 
>>
>> After five or six days and perhaps a dozen attempted installs, I was
>> never able to get a complete installation to work. Several people on
>> this list suggested that perhaps the hardware was just a bit too new
>> for an OS that was delivered last winter.
>>
>> So then I tried installing Kubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake). Four days of
>> middling success: I got the initial install running, but the
>> networking never worked, and the machine kept locking up on me, say,
>> during an update, or when loading the system utilities.
> 
> If you got the machine working then box is not trash.
> 
>>
>> Today I'm trying to install SuSE 10.1, and the damn box has locked up
>> 3 times today. Haven't even gotten past the initial install process.
> 
> Try something else. SuSE 10.1 is noturious for not installing.

???

SUSE installs fine on ThinkPads.  In fact, Lenovo is installing SUSE
Linux on the T60.