On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 15:09:58 -0700 Levi Pearson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'll stick with Lenovos. My R51 is still going strong. > > http://charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html. My T61 (BIOS dated > > 07/01/2008) is doing fine. Both run Ubuntu and Debian just fine, but > > require proprietary bits for the wireless (ipw2200 and iwl3945, > > respectively). > > I don't get the love for Lenovo laptops. That's what we generally get > at work, but it feels to me as if they've gone way downhill since > being spun off from IBM. I had an IBM-branded T41p that worked well, > aside from the poor monitor resolution. My Lenovo laptop BIOSes are dated 10/11/2007 and 07/01/2008. So it is possible they've gone downhill in the last three years. I have had intermittent hibernate problems with both, but that seems to correlate with the Linux kernel du jour. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
