On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Robert Munro wrote:

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> 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.
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> Is anyone running Linux successfully on one of these older IBM 
> Thinkpad models?  I'll be interested to hear about any experiences 
> and problems.

Until my T41's fan died recently, I'd run both CentOS and Ubuntu on it 
with no real problems. I never used the modem, so I don't know whether 
it works under Linux or not. Power management was ok but not great.

-- 
Paul Heinlein <> [email protected] <> http://www.madboa.com/
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