[ltp] X200 ... opinions

[Volker Krueger]

X200 and X200s come with both common LCDs and with LED lit LCDs.

I have to say, I have serious problems with my LED lit display: I got my
machine in the beginning of January, and the display broke today for the
3rd ("third") time. The 2nd repair was last tuesday, and this morning,
it broke again.

I think it has something to do with a bad power-related part on the
motherboard, but I cannot tell.

Anyway, LED-LCDs are supposed to consume less power. Due to my above
mentioned problems, I had a replacement machine for a week, and X200,
and it used in average 1W more than my X200s (iff it runs..).

I have no SSD but there was an earlier and very informative discussion
on this email list on this topic.

I run 64-bit linux on my laptop and use the full 4gig.

best,
VOlker






Christos Papadopoulos wrote:
> Has anyone used the SSDs with these machines? How do they fare?
>
> Does Linux see all 4G of RAM?
>
> Also can you tell a difference with the LED backlight? (this might be
> moot as they seem to be available only with LED these days)
>
> Christos.
>
> On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 09:15:04PM +0100, Volker Krueger wrote:
>   
>> Hi Glenn,
>>
>> I am in general quite happy, too.
>>
>> It seems that the X200s uses less power than the X200.
>> people say that the wireless card IWL5300 is considerably better than
>> the IWL5100.
>>
>> I have an X200s with a 1400x900 pixels. I am happy about the high
>> resolution.
>>
>> best,
>> Volker
>>
>>
>> Glenn Becker wrote:
>>     
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I am eager to upgrade from my 8 year old lappie and have cast
>>> interested eyes on the X200 ThinkPad. I'd be interested in reading
>>> about experience(s) getting Linux running thereon.
>>>
>>> FWIW my current laptop is running Slackware and Debian GNU/Linux,
>>> WinXP (bleah), OpenBSD, and Plan9. It'd be nice to be able to get all
>>> of these set up on a new machine but as I am a bit of an OS
>>> dilettante/hobbyist I guess it isn't really ... a dealbreaker if I
>>> can't. ;^)
>>>
>>> If this model and its issues have been covered already, I'd appreciate
>>> a pointer to the relevant threads. Thanks a bunch!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Glenn
>>>
>>> +-----------------------------------------------------+
>>> Glenn Becker - burningc@sdf.lonestar.org
>>> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org
>>> +-----------------------------------------------------+
>>>       
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