OK, so that's what it is. Totally useless for the average Joe, but
everything is USB now anyway
----- Original Message -----
From: "Donald MacQueen" <[email protected]>
To: "Bruce Markowitz" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] T61 XP question for anyone
Bruce Markowitz wrote:
Disregard, after some more updates and a reboot, there is now a different
maximizer that allows me to set full bright.
I read a review where they stated that the T61 LCD was dim. Now I wonder
if there was an issue with the settings, as this thing (14" WXGA+) is
BRIGHT, in fact so much so that now that I cured the issue I may set it
back to 10 or 11.
It is a bit of a PITA to get XP up and running on the T61, but so far it
runs great. This is the 2 GHZ T7300 with the nVidia 128mb card. Seems
quick and no issues so far, one gig of RAM, that might have been an issue
with Win 7.
But just to start a controversy, it is looking more and more (to me) that
M$ got it right with XP SP2 (not too much experience with SP3 as most of
the customers want SP2 for software reasons) and 7 could be as big of a
bomb as Vista. I mean, I just don't see the point, XP is proven, solid
and stable and does all kinds of neat tricks. As usual, its about the
money.
BTW, this unit has a smart card reader. What the heck is a smart card? Do
I have any of them? is that like a Metro Card (for the subway)? What a
waste, must have been a corporate purchase and they wanted to read ID
badges or something.
I do work at a Government site and we have a smart card that we have to
insert into a reader in order to login to Windows.
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