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I'm trying to make a machine with good performance and power consumption; luckily, with Pentium-M we can get both. The machine would have both Windows and Linux on it. | I'm trying to make a machine with good performance and power consumption; luckily, with Pentium-M we can get both. The machine would have both Windows and Linux on it. | ||
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| − | The original 40Gb drive was replaced with 100Gb | + | The original 40Gb drive was replaced with 100Gb. I didn't care much about recovery partition - with recently introduced [http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?sitestyle=lenovo&lndocid=MIGR-4ZKMCT Software Installer] IBM-specific Windows drivers and tools could be installed automagcally. |
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==Part 3== | ==Part 3== | ||
Revision as of 01:40, 17 February 2006
Introduction
For many years, I was pretty happy with my 600E; it is a excellent laptop, which performs very well running MS Windows OS as well as any UNIX-like I put on it (there were three FreeBSD versions and several Linuxes). However, during my recent trip to Florida I discovered that this platform is not good for long travel:
- it doesn't play DVDs very well
- it eats batteries - two hours is not enough for the four-hour flight from Denver to Ft.Lauderdale
- modern image editing applications such as Canon Digital Photo Professional take too long to execute
Immediately after returning home I started looking around and after careful considerations bought this T40p. There is not much difference between machines in T40-T42 range, especially if you are good with screwdriver; however, T40s are substantially cheaper on eBay.
I'm trying to make a machine with good performance and power consumption; luckily, with Pentium-M we can get both. The machine would have both Windows and Linux on it.
First steps
Hardware setup
The original 40Gb drive was replaced with 100Gb. I didn't care much about recovery partition - with recently introduced Software Installer IBM-specific Windows drivers and tools could be installed automagcally.
