Hmmm, my wife's 600X which predates the T series has XP running on it with no problems, XP picked everything up - built in modem, nic, video and sound, I don't believe I went to IBM's site for anything more than bios though.
On 2/16/06, warpmedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well made to IBM spec maybe, now it's Lenovo's baby. So I'd expect > quality to drop while they ride on the brand name's success & maximize > profit w/o putting in new effort/$$$. > > As to IBM supporting, they certainly did not support at least one case I > came across in the T something series(10, 20?) where the customer wanted > to go form 95 to 98 or 9x to NT/2K (been ~7 years since) and there were > no drivers or support. > > Laptops are a tough choice these days if you want your monies worth over > the long haul. > > j m g wrote: > > Before you kill the Thinkpad - how many of them were probably made by > > Lenovo or even smaller shops before? > > > > The thing that made Thinkpads good buys - personal or especially > > corporate - was the commitment to supporting the models for quite a > > while after release, and the confidence that model #xyz always had the > > same spec or chipset for the life of that model #. You could find > > bios/driver updates for a few years after models were introduced, > > often spanning Win version releases, very few if any other manuf's did > > that. > > > > On 2/16/06, warpmedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Better than Lenovo-foo-young IMO. RIP Thinkpad. > >> > > -- -jmg -sapere aude
