2009/9/21 Michael Burk <bur...@gmail.com>: > CPU: B Intel Core2 Duo (SP9600 or T9600) B - yes; use AMD64 arch?
I run AMD64 on my T61. > ATI Mobility Radeon 3470 - yes > B - or - > Intel GMA 4500MHD - ? I got the one with the nvidia card, this was my biggest mistake. As a result I can't run OpenBSD comfortably (although I'm very pleased with Arch Linux as a desktop, but that's another email). I've run OpenBSD on here before, though, before you start complaining that my email isn't relevant. ;-) > UltraNav (TrackPoint and TouchPad) - probably Most certainly. You can disable aspects of it in the BIOS, I took the liberty of turning off the touchpad, best thing I've done for a laptop in years. > DisplayPort video port for external monitor - ? > B B (I'd like to be able to have two separate screens configured, > B B though video mirroring would be OK) Yup, I'm doing this right this moment. http://logik.li/images/screenshots/arrakis/dualhead_for_obsd_misc.png > Intel WiFi Link 5300 - yes > Sound card (no specs available) - ? Yup, although I had to write a little utility to toggle the volume, but that was probably just due to never using OpenBSD's sound subsystem before. > One serious drawback is that I can't find a place locally that sells > them, so I can't find out how they feel, sound, or how good the screen > looks. I'd appreciate any comments about these aspects also. My T61 is pretty quiet for a laptop, it also runs way cooler than most laptops I've seen. I brought it into 100B0F heat for a month and while most people's laptops overheated, the only part that even got hot to the touch was the power cord. My screen handles up to 1680x1050 comfortably, which with a small font and good window managers means you can fit a lot information on the screen. It's matte, so you never feel like you're looking at a mirror, unlike most new laptops these days. I can only see a rough outline of my head when I move it and I'm infront of something white on a black screen, otherwise it's a nice deep black. The sound system has been great, I use Grado SR-60's every day with it and can't hear any noticable drop in sound quality from my desktop. The keyboard is very, very nice for a laptop and is essentially a full size keyboard. I've been using my laptop as my primary computer for a year now and I haven't had any complaints (even compared to my Model M!), besides the fact that I can't rearrange the keys for dvorak, but that's not really important since I'm a touch typist. I've never bothered to figure out how to use the Fn key to use the numpad though, but I guess that's a problem with most every laptop, not just ThinkPads. (Or indeed a problem with me.) I can actually type faster on this than my Model M, and with a fraction of the noise. (Although it's not quite the same, but you're never going to have buckling springs in a laptop.) Hope this helps, sorry I'm not using the same model you were looking for, but overall IBM's ThinkPad line has seemed great to me, even after giving it to Lenovo. -- Samuel Baldwin - logik.li
