[mdlug] Lenovo intel vs thinkpad wireless lwith inux

[Robert Citek]

On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Dan Pritts <danno at umich.edu> wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 10:48:19AM -0400, - wrote:
>> I am in the process of buying a think pad T61 from Lenovo.  I am wondering
>
> In case you are considering dual-booting this with windows, i'll
> share my experience there.  We bought a bunch of these to deploy
> with vista.
>
> The battery life was total crap, something like 75 minutes running
> a low load (email, browser, wlan).
>
> To make matters worse, lenovo didn't (maybe still doesn't) have a full
> complement of XP drivers available.
>
> I think this overall was a good thing since it was the straw that
> broke the camel's back and we're switching to Macs.  But since this
> is a lug not a mug i'll shut up about that.  ;)

I'm using a Lenovo T61 with Ubuntu 8.04 with wifi access right now.
Wifi works great.

As for battery life, I don't use Vista, mostly Ubuntu and occasionally
WinXP, which seems to run about 2-3 hours depending on usage.

Regards,
- Robert