[ltp] X60 - (bad) experience, others?
Adrian Walker
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:46:06 -0500
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Hi All --
I have had an X60s for about 6 months now. Portability is really great.
Works fine with Red Hat Fedora Core 6 -- no heating problems, and
surprisingly fast. About 5 hours on the high end battery. My old external
CD burner is plug-and-work.
I occasionally remove the internal Linux hard drive and plug in the Windows
Vista one that came with the machine. Vista, as delivered by Lenovo, is
*incredibly* slow on the X60s. About 2 hours on the high end battery. 10
minutes to restart or cold boot. (30 minutes if Windows is doing an
update!). When connected to the net, Windows sometimes decides to restart
the machine without checking with the user first -- not so great for demos!
The hard drive light stays on about 95% of the time. I know, I should
probably look into tuning -- but my feeling is that the system should at
least have decent performance as delivered.
Hope this helps.
-- Adrian
Internet Business Logic
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Adrian Walker
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On 1/30/08, Damien Challet <dchallet@onetel.com> wrote:
>
> It is really nice machine, BUT the palm rest is really burning hot with
> Linux,
> even with wifi drivers unloaded, rfkill, etc. That is the only problem.
>
> Some report that the models with WLAN have a supplementary fan, so until
> Intel
> manages somehow to produce a driver that does not engrave the fingerprint
> reader into my palm, I was wondering if unplugging the wifi card would be
> accepted by the booting process, or if I should buy and install a
> supplementary fan.
>
> On an other note, what is you cpu idle temps while on AC? I only once
> managed
> to go down to 37-38C with the C4onC3_en trick and kernel 2.6.24 (setpci -s
> 00:1f.0 a0.w=a8) (warning, potentially dangerous), but it seems that
> 44-46C
> is far more frequent.
>
> --
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> http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
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Hi All --<br>
<br>
I have had an X60s for about 6 months now. Portability is really great.<br>
<br>
Works fine with Red Hat Fedora Core 6 -- no heating problems, and
surprisingly fast. About 5 hours on the high end battery.
My old external CD burner is plug-and-work. <br>
<br>
I occasionally remove the internal Linux hard drive and plug in the
Windows Vista one that came with the machine. Vista, as delivered
by Lenovo, is *incredibly* slow on the X60s. About 2 hours on the
high end battery. 10 minutes to restart or cold boot. (30
minutes if Windows is doing an update!). When connected to the
net, Windows sometimes decides to restart the machine without checking
with the user first -- not so great for demos! The hard drive
light stays on about 95% of the time. I know, I should probably
look into tuning -- but my feeling is that the system should at least
have decent performance as delivered.<br>
<br>
Hope this helps.<br>
<br>
-- Adrian<br>
<br>
Internet Business Logic<br>
A Wiki and SOA Endpoint for Executable Open Vocabulary English<br>
Online at <a href="http://www.reengineeringllc.com">www.reengineeringllc.com</a> Shared use is free<br>
<br>
Adrian Walker<br>
Reengineering<br>
<br>
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 1/30/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">Damien Challet</b> <<a href="mailto:dchallet@onetel.com">dchallet@onetel.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
It is really nice machine, BUT the palm rest is really burning hot with Linux,<br>even with wifi drivers unloaded, rfkill, etc. That is the only problem.<br><br>Some report that the models with WLAN have a supplementary fan, so until Intel<br>
manages somehow to produce a driver that does not engrave the fingerprint<br>reader into my palm, I was wondering if unplugging the wifi card would be<br>accepted by the booting process, or if I should buy and install a<br>
supplementary fan.<br><br>On an other note, what is you cpu idle temps while on AC? I only once managed<br>to go down to 37-38C with the C4onC3_en trick and kernel 2.6.24 (setpci -s<br>00:1f.0 a0.w=a8) (warning, potentially dangerous), but it seems that 44-46C<br>
is far more frequent.<br><br>--<br>The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:<br><a href="http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad">http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad</a><br>
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