8 Mar
2007
8 Mar
'07
8:47 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:49:46AM +0100, Robin Gareus wrote:
second that! i945GM on Lenovo X60s works just fine.
the laptop worked almost instantly with Linux incl. suspend+hibernate,
2nd Video-Head, wireless, etc. stock debian kernel. - the integrated
speaker however is embarrassing!
Yeah, the R50s integrated speaker was bad as well now that you mentioned
it. I usually used it with headphones except for the few times it was
hooked to a PA.
realtime-2.6.20 + hibernate are still somewhat
exclusive (see other
thread). - jack+ardour+sc+pd+.. work just great with USB soundcard(s).
It won't beat a PCI-Soundcard Desktop PC in performance but that's not a
point. - I have not yet tried Firewire audio, but ext. 1394-harddisks
work fine. (beware it's a 4pin connector only - no power via 1394
connector as with most PC laptops!)
Reportedly Ricoh Firefire chips (which the R50 used) aren't so good for
some multimedia tasks.
Dual Core is quite well supported. I'd rather buy
2x32bit that 1x64bit -
at least for another year or so ;) - but Lenovo is not the cheap
solution. you might get similar performance with a Latitude D620.
I just reviewed the offerings. The D620 offers some better cheap
options (under $1000, the R60s are all Celerons), but by time you are
looking at C2D T7200, they are neck and neck in price and the Thinkpad
offers the nicer screen.