ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-03 Thread Gary Kline
Folks, I'm looking at a 3GHz ThinkPad w/out any OS. It's got at most 512M memory and only 40G drive. The guy I'm going to have upgrade this l'top thinks it will take a 160GB drive easily. Also that the RAM might max out at just 2GB. Any fellow

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-03 Thread Kurt Buff
I got a Thinkpad T61 back in May/June that had 4gig factory-installed. Dual core, but only 2.2GHz - I could've gotten a faster proc, but I wasn't willing to pay the price. I did splurge on a 120gbyte 7200rpm drive, though. Came with SUSE on it, too, but I've got it dual booting with FreeBSD 7 amd64

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-03 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gary Kline wrote: > Folks, > > I'm looking at a 3GHz ThinkPad w/out any OS. It's got > at most 512M memory and only 40G drive. The guy I'm going to > have upgrade this l'top thinks it will take a 160GB drive easily. >

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-03 Thread Steve Bertrand
Gary Kline wrote: Folks, I'm looking at a 3GHz ThinkPad w/out any OS. It's got at most 512M memory and only 40G drive. The guy I'm going to have upgrade this l'top thinks it will take a 160GB drive easily. Also that the RAM might max out at just 2GB. Any fellow

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm looking at a 3GHz ThinkPad w/out any OS. It's got at most 512M memory and only 40G drive. The guy I'm going to have upgrade this l'top thinks it will take a 160GB drive easily. Also that the RAM might max out at just 2GB. Any fellow TP-people onlist

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-04 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi, I'm looking at a 3GHz ThinkPad w/out any OS. It's got at most 512M memory and only 40G drive. The guy I'm going to have upgrade this l'top thinks it will take a 160GB drive easily. Also that the RAM might max out at just 2GB. Any fellow TP-people onlist who know if my

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Any fellow TP-people onlist who know if my friend is right? no idea. anyway 512MB is more than enough. Sounds like Bill Gates who once said that 8MB will be more than enough for everyone... 640kB to be exact. would be - with well done software and for things most people actually ne

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 07:18:13PM -0700, Kurt Buff wrote: > I got a Thinkpad T61 back in May/June that had 4gig factory-installed. > Dual core, but only 2.2GHz - I could've gotten a faster proc, but I > wasn't willing to pay the price. I did splurge on a 120gbyte 7200rpm > drive, though. Came with

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:00:19PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > Folks, > > > > I'm looking at a 3GHz ThinkPad w/out any OS. It's got > > at most 512M memory and only 40G drive. The guy I'm going to > > have upgrade this l'top thinks it will take a 160GB dr

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:13:05PM -0400, Greg Larkin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Gary Kline wrote: > > Folks, > > > > I'm looking at a 3GHz ThinkPad w/out any OS. It's got > > at most 512M memory and only 40G drive. The guy I'm going to > > hav

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 10:15:42AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > > I'm looking at a 3GHz ThinkPad w/out any OS. It's got > > at most 512M memory and only 40G drive. The guy I'm going to > > have upgrade this l'top thinks it will take a 160GB drive easily. > > Also that the R

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Dumb-question-dept:: is the "dual-core 2.2GHz == 4.4GHz" single processor? I just bought my daughter a MacBook dual-core 2.4 and if you run at least 2 CPU-intensive processes in parallel - yes it's MORE THAN 4.4Ghz performance equivalent. why more? because when processor gets

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Any fellow TP-people onlist who know if my friend is right? no idea. anyway 512MB is more than enough. Not if you're going to create a "ram-drive" or whatever it's called these days. i use tmpfs, but anyway no need to. unix automatically caches as much as it can. __

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-04 Thread Steve Bertrand
Gary Kline wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:00:19PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Folks, I'm looking at a 3GHz ThinkPad w/out any OS. It's got at most 512M memory and only 40G drive. The guy I'm going to have upgrade this l'top thinks it will take a 160G

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-04 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:48:06 -0400 Steve Bertrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 11:00:19PM -0400, Steve Bertrand wrote: > >> Gary Kline wrote: > >>> Folks, > >>> > >>> I'm looking at a 3GHz ThinkPad w/out any OS. It's got > >>> at most 512M m

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
> This could lead me way into off-topic-ness, so I'm going to leave it > alone ;) As in, what's the RGB code for Thinkpad Black? :) #00 ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 04:09:12PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > I had no trouble dropping a 120GB Fujitsu into my T23 recently (was > 30GB), so I expect 160GB would be fine, especially in a much later > model. And 2GB is likely plenty for anything but Microsloth Vasta. > > Something to consider i

Re: ThinkPad 3.0GHz: can anybody verify?

2008-09-07 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 6 Sep 2008, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 04:09:12PM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > > > I had no trouble dropping a 120GB Fujitsu into my T23 recently (was > > 30GB), so I expect 160GB would be fine, especially in a much later > > model. And 2GB is likely plenty for anythi