Robert Munro <[email protected]> writes: > My HP Omnibook 6000 died yesterday. Apparently the hard disk failed as > the Setup program shows Hard Disk [None] and pulling it out, staring at > it and reseating it didn't help, of course. > > Salvage resellers are selling some refurbished IBM Thinkpad T41 and T42 > notebooks on Ebay, which seem to be selling for a little more than $100 > at auction. These systems have 1.6GHz Pentium M CPUs, 512MB of RAM and > 20GB or 40GB hard drives, 14-inch SVGA 1024x768 screens, CD/DVD-writers > and built-in 56K modems, ethernet NICs, etc. Just big screen netbooks. > > Is anyone running Linux successfully on one of these older IBM Thinkpad > models? I'll be interested to hear about any experiences and problems.
I am not presently running one, but the T3*, T4*, and T6* models of ThinkPad are all extremely well supported by Linux. See http://www.thinkwiki.org/ for the fine details and all. Regards, Daniel -- ✣ Daniel Pittman ✉ [email protected] ☎ +61 401 155 707 ♽ made with 100 percent post-consumer electrons _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
