[ltp] T42P or Newer model?

[Matt Graham]

On Monday 11 December 2006 21:19, after a long battle with technology, 
Brian D. Ropers-Huilman wrote:
> On 12/11/06, westerj@optonline.net <westerj@optonline.net> wrote:
> > Are the newer models substantially (T60P) better than the
> > tried/true/debugged units (T42P)?
> > Am leaning towards the tried / true model, but willing to listen.
> I'm typing this on a T43p that I've had for a year or so now and I'm
> hoping to hear good things about those "generation(s) ahead" systems

The thing about the T42p is that everything works.  Heck, even the 
LoseModem works with the slmodem package.  This can be really nice.  I 
checked the tuxmobil pages for the T60p, and it looks like there are 
not very many problems there.  Well, the thing has an ipw3945 (newer, 
maybe flakier than the ipw2200 right now) and you're stuck with fglrx 
if you need accelerated 3D.  Getting the fingerprint reader on the T60p 
working properly seems to require a bit of frog-walking.

http://buzzy.tesuji.org/thinkpad_t60p.html for a Gentoo-centric account 
of what to do.  (Although that guy says he disabled all 
suspend-to-RAM/disk.  WTF?  Why would you do that on a *laptop*?)

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