Re: [PLUG] IBM Thinkpad T22

[Jason Costomiris <jcostom@jasons.org>]

On Monday, April 21, 2003, at 08:49 AM, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

> Heh. Interesting, considering the XF86 4 driver for the chipset in
> the 760s is broken (can't do DMA in the embedded version, so it
> totally hoses the screen), so I've been forced to stick with XF86 3
> there.

The T21 I had used an S3/Savage.  The newer T's use a mobile radeon, 
like the X series.

> > On a sort of related note, if you don't already have the T22, and 
> > don't
> > need to always have the optical drive, consider the X23.  I ran RH8 on
> > one for a while before selling it, and loved it.  Amazingly light and
> > great battery life.  Smallish screen (12.1"), but still looked great 
> > at
> > 1024x768.  It used a Radeon 7000 for the video, so it always looked
> > great.  I also ran Gentoo on it for a while, and that worked well too.
>
> Hrm. I do see a T23, but it's got a 14.1" TFT:
>
>     http://tinyurl.com/9ylb [1]

Yes, all of the T series have 14.1".  The X has the 12.1".

> Also, unless I'm mistaken, the X series lacks the main reason I want
> the laptop (over my 760s): three mouse buttons. (As near as I can
> tell, only the 600s and T{21..23}s have that.)

The X23 that I had did indeed have 3 buttons...

Here's one on eBay (sold by ibm direct)

http://tinyurl.com/9yqh

That's a nice one -- 256MB RAM/30G drive/integrated WLAN/integrated 
ethernet/modem

--
Jason Costomiris <><
E: jcostom {at} jasons {dot} org / W: http://www.jasons.org/
I've got a theory..  it could be bunnies!

_________________________________________________________________________
Philadelphia Linux Users Group        --       http://www.phillylinux.org
Announcements - http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce
General Discussion  --   http://lists.netisland.net/mailman/listinfo/plug