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Discussing desktops at the Collaboration SummitDiscussing desktops at the Collaboration SummitPosted Apr 9, 2008 15:49 UTC (Wed) by niner (subscriber, #26151)In reply to: Discussing desktops at the Collaboration Summit by hmh Parent article: Discussing desktops at the Collaboration Summit
That's the single reason why I do not own a Thinkpad: I couldn't get a decent resolution display (1680x1050) _and_ free driver supported Intel graphics. According to Lenovo there are performance problems with Intel chipsets and high resolutions. So instead my money went to Dell where I got a display with even higher resolution (1920x1200) and Intel graphics and it performs extremely well.
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Discussing desktops at the Collaboration Summit Posted Apr 9, 2008 16:11 UTC (Wed) by rossburton (subscriber, #7254) [Link] The Lenovo web site loves hiding the full list of ThinkPads, but I've seen T series ThinkPads with what you want for some time. How about this: http://www5.pc.ibm.com/uk/products.nsf/$wwwPartNumLookup/... T61, Intel graphics, 1680x1050, even comes with SUSE.
Discussing desktops at the Collaboration Summit Posted Apr 9, 2008 23:15 UTC (Wed) by bkoz (guest, #4027) [Link] This is actually the UK IBM website... If you go to the lenovo website the T-series notebooks are all sold with microsoft, no option for linux. As per usual... http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/Lenov... However, if you search for "linux T61" you get redirected to an IBM web site with linux SKU's. Weird. I do know that there are SKU's for linux lenovo notebooks, but I don't see them on the main lenovo site.
Discussing desktops at the Collaboration Summit Posted Apr 9, 2008 23:39 UTC (Wed) by bkoz (guest, #4027) [Link] oops. I am wrong: http://shop.lenovo.com/SEUILibrary/controller/e/web/Lenov...
Holy cow! Posted Apr 9, 2008 16:56 UTC (Wed) by leoc (subscriber, #39773) [Link] Out of curiosity, I just did a check of the US T61 configuration page and found that they are now selling T61's with Linux! In fact, the Linux T61's are the cheapest ones you can buy ($100 cheaper than the Vista models). And they have WXGA+ screen options for both the 14" and 15" models. Perhaps this isn't news to everyone else, but while I knew Lenovo was selling Linux powered models, I had absolutely no idea that they were selling so many of them, from such a prominent place on their products page, and that you could configure them just like the Windows ones. This is even better than Dell, which hides their Linux machines on a special page behind a easy to miss "Open source PCs" link. Now I am pissed that I had to pay for yet another useless copy of Vista just 5 months ago when I got my T61.
Discussing desktops at the Collaboration Summit Posted Apr 10, 2008 20:39 UTC (Thu) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] As far as I know, there are problems with BIOS configuration, high resolution, and Lenovo. It's only recently that the Intel drivers stopped caring about what the BIOS thinks about your resolution.
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