ThinkPad Owners Thread

[steelcap]

T61 here - Centrino Duo 2.0Ghz - 2Gb Ram - Intel graphics.

My CTO loves HP and always want to buy them when we get notebooks, but I held out for a Thinkpad. After playing with my T61 for about 5 minutes he asked me to order him one too.

I need XP for my windows sysadmin tools at work, but this thing dual boots Kubuntu like a dream. There are a couple of things that don't work out of the box, but can be fixed in a few minutes (when I get the time) - the page forward/backward buttons and small issues with screen brightness. Wireless works beautifully without any configuration.

[nat6138]

I own a ThinkPad T30, works great. Very durable.

And worked right out of the box on Ubuntu!

[zcal]

ThinkPad R40
1.8 ghz Celeron
512 mb RAM
20 gb hdd
ATI Mobility M6 LY 16 mb

I bought this on eBay for around $500 a couple of years ago. I think it must've been owned by a business and licensed to an employee in its previous life...

It's run a gauntlet of Linux installs with me. Ubuntu Breezy all the way through Gutsy, Gentoo, Zenwalk, Debian Sid, Lenny, and now Etch...even FreeBSD.

I like the ThinkPad's design better than any other laptop's (even Apple's line) just because it's all business. I've always hated how Dells and Compaqs and HPs look like little spaceships. ThinkPads are simply elegant, they pack useful features, and they're solid.

Now...if only the previous owner hadn't effectively drained the battery on mine.

[toupeiro]

You are going to carry that around?!

Great specs, but for what I use my laptop, such a size would be impracticle.

(Could you post a picture?)

Yes, I am. I have an Ogio bag, so its no thing whatsoever to carry. It's 1 pound heaver than a t61p.



As far as being a desktop replacement -- My work linux desktop is a dual chip dual core opteron with 16GB of ram and a Quadro-FX 5500. (and no, it is not overkill, I've taxed this box on many occaision depending on what I'm doing)

You may never replace your thinkpad for an HP, and thats fine, you shouldn't. thinkpads are great. I have a practical reason to (not to mention the opportunity to do so with no cost to me) from a resource standpoint, and I'm curious to see how the integrity of these laptops compare. If it fails in three months, then I guess I have my answer, but I doubt it will. You can't simply slam it because its an HP and you've had a crappy HP. This is not your bargin bin laptop line, much like the thinkpad line is not. HP Proliants are some of the best servers built, but you wouldn't know it from a crappy presario desktop..


Plus, the 8710w docking station has a built in NAS! Now that, I don't need... but there is a definate drool factor in effect.

[steelcap]

I like the ThinkPad's design better than any other laptop's (even Apple's line) just because it's all business.

I agree, I bought my wife a Macbook just before I got my Thinkpad in September and the Macbook is definitely "consumer" grade compared to the pro feel of the Thinkpad. Both cost about the same.

[LaRoza]

Yes, I am. I have an Ogio bag, so its no thing whatsoever to carry. It's 1 pound heaver than a t61p.

As far as being a desktop replacement -- My work linux desktop is a dual chip dual core opteron with 16GB of ram and a Quadro-FX 5500. (and no, it is not overkill, I've taxed this box on many occaision depending on what I'm doing)

You may never replace your thinkpad for an HP, and thats fine, you shouldn't. thinkpads are great. I have a practical reason to from a resource standpoint, and I'm curious to see how the integrity of these laptops compare. You can't simply slam it because its an HP and you've had a crappy HP. This is not your bargin bin laptop, much like the thinkpad line is not. HP Proliants are some of the best servers built, but you wouldn't know it from a crappy presario desktop..

Wow, your specs are certainly impressive, I am envious.

I have a Compaq Presario, and it works great (I am an HP fan too), good specs (not as high as yours though).

Let us know how the laptop works out, any good laptop is a good laptop no matter who built it.

[toupeiro]

Wow, your specs are certainly impressive, I am envious.

I have a Compaq Presario, and it works great (I am an HP fan too), good specs (not as high as yours though).

Let us know how the laptop works out, any good laptop is a good laptop no matter who built it.

I will definately do so. It will be a dual boot system. 64-bit vista and 64-bit feisty. The vista is for my work and R&D for cross platform 64 bit applications. The Feisty is for me because I do not like vista.

:edit: No offense about the crappy presario remark I hope, lol! I was making a point in comparison, not to say that all presario's are crap. <inserts foot in mouth>

[Whiffle]

T43 here...

1.86GHz Pentium M
2 GB Ram
120 GB seagate momentus HD
Intel GMA 910 Graphics
IPW2200 wireless
bluetooth
Slackware
Windows XP

I love this little machine. It works great, is silly fast (to me anyway), pulls in wireless wonderfully (better than my friends shiny new macbook pro), and is a tank. The keyboard is great too, almost as good as my IBM model M keyboard on my desktop. I've also been very impressed at how cool this thing stays, tis wonderful! Only thing wrong with it is I'm missing a screw off the bottom left corner under the wrist rest. I've also been very impressed

Oh and since I havn't seen it mentioned yet, great info to be had here:

www.thinkwiki.org

I'm using the tp-fancontrol script from thinkwiki as well, it works nicely to keep the fan noise down.

[LaRoza]

:edit: No offense about the crappy presario remark I hope, lol! I was making a point in comparison, not to say that all presario's are crap. <inserts foot in mouth>

I understand what you meant, it was kind of funny on my end.

I added a lot of the hard ware, so it isn't the same computer I bought (well, the processor and motherboard are the same as is the case, but most of the devices are added on)

[regomodo]

Thinkpad 570e - 448MHz P3 - 312MB RAM - 30GB hdd - belkin wifi

I use Debian Lenny and Arch Linux on it. Used to use Xubuntu and Ubuntu server+fluxbox but there were too many issues