[mdlug] Lenovo intel vs thinkpad wireless lwith inux

[Peter Bart]

On Mon, 2008-06-02 at 11:21 -0400, Dan Pritts 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).

	I have one with I believe a 6 cell battery and I get about 2-3 hours
out of it. I run openSUSE 10.3 and XP inside VMWare 5. IIRC these are
available with either a 4, 6, or 8 cell battery. That will have an
effect on battery life.

> 
> To make matters worse, lenovo didn't (maybe still doesn't) have a full
> complement of XP drivers available.

	Don't know but then I don't use XP hardly at all right now.

> 
> 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.  ;)
> 
> danno

	Lucky Dog ;)
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