[ltp] Thinking of leaving Thinkpads

[Daniel Castro]

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I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on a W500 and everything worked out-of-the-box.

On 29 March 2010 17:30, Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> wrote:

> I have two T43's (and a third dead one) and a T23,
> but sadly I'm thinking of looking elsewhere for a new laptop.
>
> I run Linux (Fedora/KDE) 90% of the time,
> so a simple installation is top priority.
> There seem to be lots of problems installing Linux
> in more recent Thinkpads.
>
> Any comments?
>
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> Timothy Murphy
> e-mail: gayleard /at/ eircom.net
> tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366
> s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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I just installed Ubuntu 9.10 on a W500 and everything worked out-of-the-box.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 29 March 2010 17:30, Timothy Murphy <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:tim@maths.tcd.ie">tim@maths.tcd.ie</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I have two T43&#39;s (and a third dead one) and a T23,<br>
but sadly I&#39;m thinking of looking elsewhere for a new laptop.<br>
<br>
I run Linux (Fedora/KDE) 90% of the time,<br>
so a simple installation is top priority.<br>
There seem to be lots of problems installing Linux<br>
in more recent Thinkpads.<br>
<br>
Any comments?<br>
<br>
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Timothy Murphy<br>
e-mail: gayleard /at/ <a href="http://eircom.net" target="_blank">eircom.net</a><br>
tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366<br>
s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland<br>
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