* Michelle Konzack <linux4michelle@freenet.de> [05-01-01 12:26]: > I have 7 IBM's ad will never change it... > The smallest is a TP760ED (233 MHz, 128 MB memory and 8 GB HDD), the > one R40 (1300MHz, 1 GB memory and 20 GB HDD) and since 4 days a T70 > > They are very robust... > > [...] > > Forget 3 GHz laptops and long Battery life. All labtops more then > 1,6 GHz are only remplacments for Workstations and not realy for mobil > use. I have an runtime of around 4 Hours with my TP760ED, 3 Hours with > my R40 and 2 Hours with my T70. > > [...] > > The laptop do this its own. If you are on Batery, mostly you will have > between 800 and 1200Mhz. Bought my Thinkpad R40 two years ago and am totally happy with it :) Got the "long-life" battery (6hrs). If that's not enough, I take out my DVD drive and plug in a second battery which will give me another 5-6 hours. Makes a total of about 11 hours. Guess that's enough for even very long distance flights :) But even without the extra battery it is enough to watch two dvds while driving in the train from stuttgart to dresden (here in germany). What's more: Thinkpads are very silent. Not like other laptops where one can get the impression a jet is starting when the fan starts working as the cpu is getting hot. Thinkpads now work perfectly with linux! I installed woody when I got it and updated to sarge some months later. With kernel 2.6.10 I have no probs at all with APM. ACPI is a bit tricky but it works. Advised a friend of mine some time ago to also buy a Thinkpad and so he did (he got an R50) and he is as happy as I am. Just to consider... :) grZ Dani
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