[ltp] I-series Thinkpad info requested

[Alex Deucher]

On 5/17/06, Mendel Cooper <thegrendel@theriver.com> wrote:
> Does anyone have any information on the I-series Thinkpads, and
> specifically on the I1124 and I1157 models? From what little I've been
> able to find out (Thinkpadwiki, etc.), these last two have an AMD cpu
> and small very-high definition TFT displays.
>

see the thinkwiki i-series pages:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:Models
AFAIK, they were Intel based.

> I-series TP do not seem to be available for sale on eBay and googling
> brings up only Japanese language pages. This leads me to believe that
> the I-series was in limited production and maybe only for the Japanese
> market.
>
> Does anyone know any more? Linux compatibility of this series? Availabili=
ty
> where?

IIRC, IBM contracted with Acer to build the i-series laptop.  In
general they run linux fine.  Some of the models were Asia specific,
but quite a few were sold in the US.  I'm not sure which models
specifically.  In general Acer stuck pretty close to IBM's designs as
they share many of the features and interfaces the IBM designed
models.

Alex