A followup on the model 600x. I used mine until a fire burned it up last month.
It ran XT ok, was a pristine machine much respected. I also liked to watch dvd movies on it. Rest in peace, Thinkpad 600X! -----Original Message----- >From: STeve Andre' <[email protected]> >Sent: Feb 15, 2010 7:01 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad 600 > >Unless you stop running Windows. OpenBSD and FreeBSD can run fairly >well on it. It's slow, but usable. > >--STeve Andre' > >On Monday 15 February 2010 18:53:46 Bruce Markowitz wrote: >> That machine is an ace with 98SE, anything above that is just too slow. >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Simon Royal" <[email protected]> >> To: "ThinkPad Mailing List" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, February 15, 2010 6:30 PM >> Subject: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad 600 >> >> > Hi >> > I just wanted to start by saying hi. I am an experienced computer user of >> > Windows, Mac and Linux and have been for over 17 years. I have always >> > been a fan of IBM ThinkPads and owned a few a couple of years ago - a 760 >> > and a 380ED. >> > I wanted to pick your tech brains. I picked up a quite old ThinkPad 600. >> > It is a lovely little machine in mint condition, but it is lacking in the >> > spec department for every day use. A mere Pentium 2 300Mhz with only >> > 160MB RAM. It does have a DVD drive and a massive 60GB hard drive. >> > I originally had it running Windows 2000 and it screamed along. But >> > temptation got the better of me and I installed XP Home and performance >> > isn't great. >> > I know chucking some more RAM in it would help XP, but this thing tops at >> > 288MB RAM (2x128MB and an on board 32MB), so wonder if that is enough RAM >> > to keep XP happy. >> > What do you think. I loved Windows 2000, in its day, but is it too old >> > these days. I have only found one piece of software I use under XP that >> > isn't supported under 2000 and that is the Google Chrome browser, so I am >> > wondering whether it is worth reinstalling Windows 2000, just to get that >> > extra bit of power out of the machine. >> > What do you think? >> > >> > Simon Royal >> > >> > --- Catch me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal or Skype: >> > Simon-Royal > >_______________________________________________ >Thinkpad mailing list >[email protected] >http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
