The new Sojourner
Got me a "new" lappy today, a used Thinkpad T60.
The idea is to use it as day in, day out work horse, to replace the battered T43 that is starting to show its age nowadays.
The T60 is really amazing, I was a little worried that the speed but from the T43 wasn't really nothing, but the thing is night and day, the same goes regarding the heat and noise emission, the T60 is as cool and silent as a monastery.
As usual, for this quick test moved the the RAM from the late M1330, the T60 only sees 3 GB, no matter if you choose a 64 bits OS, so I have a flapping 1 GB; but what a hell, that RAM came free, and also installed the 500 GB SATA drive that was originally on the M1330 as well.
No fuzz, no trouble, placed it on the T60 and booted straight from it, of course, the T60 doesn't have an NVIDIA card, to it belched and error, but an X Window restart fixed that, and a full blown Gnome desktop started as it should.
The idea is to use it as day in, day out work horse, to replace the battered T43 that is starting to show its age nowadays.
The T60 is really amazing, I was a little worried that the speed but from the T43 wasn't really nothing, but the thing is night and day, the same goes regarding the heat and noise emission, the T60 is as cool and silent as a monastery.
As usual, for this quick test moved the the RAM from the late M1330, the T60 only sees 3 GB, no matter if you choose a 64 bits OS, so I have a flapping 1 GB; but what a hell, that RAM came free, and also installed the 500 GB SATA drive that was originally on the M1330 as well.
No fuzz, no trouble, placed it on the T60 and booted straight from it, of course, the T60 doesn't have an NVIDIA card, to it belched and error, but an X Window restart fixed that, and a full blown Gnome desktop started as it should.
Labels: Dell XPS M1330, hardware, Life, Linux, Lucid Lynx, Thinkpad T60, Ubuntu
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