On Tue, May 24, 2005 at 06:51:14PM -0700, Gary Thornock wrote: > Again, I'd go with the Thinkpad. Either of the models that the law > school recommends (the R-50 or the T-41) will work very well. I > probably wouldn't put Fedora on it, though: lately I've had much > better results from Mepis, and most of the recommendations I've seen > from others have been for (K)Ubuntu.
Disclaimer: I work for IBM.
Disclaimer disclaimer: Lenovo now owns the Thinkpad division.
Disclaimer disclaimer disclaimer: The quality is still the same.
I bought my wife an R50 a couple months ago. When it came in the
mail, I resized her partitions, handed her a copy of Ubuntu, and told
her to give it a shot. Half an hour later, she was up and running
with 3D acceleration, 802.11g, sound, and hibernation all working,
right out of the box. Setting up the printer was a matter of browsing
the local network and selecting the Laserjet that was shared to my
subnet. Setting up remote scanning was a matter of adding an IP
address to the xsane-net backend driver file. It was like magic.
Admittedly, I had to break out my 1337 h4x0r sk1llz to get MPlayer
built and running, with all the codecs, along with MPlayer-plugin for
Firefox, so she could watch movie previews from apple.com/trailers and
what not. That's about as complicated as things got. She's been
using it ever since without a hitch. She's even sending faxes with
eFax. And since it's Ubuntu Linux, we have no problems with crashes,
viruses, spyware, or anything of the sort.
She just told me last night that this Thinkpad is the best gift I have
ever given her! :-/
My only issue with the R50 is its screen resolution (1024x768). After
experiencing the euphoria of 1400x1050 on my T41p, I could never be
happy with anything less. If you've got $1,500 to spend, get a T42 or
T43.
Mike
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