I personally like the lattitude D820 my company gives me to use. The D830 models are out and I don't think much has changed other than ram/cpu configurations.
I never ran linux on it or vista on mines. The D830s seem to run vista fine. My laptop screen has a higher resolution than either of my 20" flatscreen monitors that the docking station is hooked up to. Yes its big and heavy, Thats' something I don't care about. On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Michael B Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 7:14 PM, inforequest <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On the (excellent) advice of the PHP community almost 4 years ago, I bought >> a Thinkpad t42p. I still love it but it's time to plan retirement. >> >> Can anyone recommend the Lenovo t61p as a replacement, or is there something >> clearly better? No, I'm not going to switch to a mac. Thanks. > > I recently got a T61 15" widescreen 1600x1050, Intel video and Intel > AGN wireless (model 6465-CTO). > > I let it "age" a while before installing Fedora 9 which ran on it with > very little help. IIRC Fedora didn't install the wireless firmware > out-of-the-box but I think that was about it. > > Originally I got the lower resolution screen, hated it, had to send it > back and Lenovo charged me a 15% restocking fee. So pay close > attention to the screen resolutions. If you like smaller text, make > sure you upgrade the screen. > > On a related note, note that the T61p (which has the highest > resolution) requires the Nvidia chip last I checked which non-Windows > systems do not support as well (Linux uses that driver wrapper > business). > > I was a little disappointed with the screen. If you move your head > back and forth it looks like there are shadows behind it. It's fine > but it's definitely not as *consistently* bright as my now quite old > T30. > > The lid is somewhat hard to open and now it seems I can rock the > hinges a little in the open position. It's not a problem. It just > makes me wonder if there's an engineering flaw that might become a > problem later. > > I think the machine is a little big. I don't know if Lenovo designed > the IBM Thinkpads but it seems to me they could do a little better job > squeezing things into smaller spaces (note that I'm talking about the > widescreen version). > > Finally, I'm a little worried about Lenovo. I could be wrong, but for > some reason I don't think IBM would have charged me a restocking fee > for a "I don't like the screen" kind of problem. But then again, the > prices have really come down over the past year so I guess we end up > paying for things either way. > > Despite the above mentioned minor issues, I looked closely at > alternatives and there simply were none. I don't understand how anyone > could buy anything other then a Thinkpad. ALL the other offerings out > there are more expensive, have fewer features, and are bigger / > heavier. The only contender is Apple because OSX gives you a UNIX > based OS, a really nice desktop and very sleek looking hardware. But > Apples are much more expensive and have fewer features so if you can't > really use OSX (e.g. you want to dual boot w/ Windows) or you don't > care about weight and sleek design, it's not compelling enough to > usurp a Thinkpad. > > Mike > > -- > Michael B Allen > PHP Active Directory SPNEGO SSO > http://www.ioplex.com/ > _______________________________________________ > New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List > http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk > > NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online > http://www.nyphpcon.com > > Show Your Participation in New York PHP > http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php > _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
