On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 12:49:46AM +0100, Robin Gareus wrote: > second that! i945GM on Lenovo X60s works just fine. > > the laptop worked almost instantly with Linux incl. suspend+hibernate, > 2nd Video-Head, wireless, etc. stock debian kernel. - the integrated > speaker however is embarrassing! Yeah, the R50s integrated speaker was bad as well now that you mentioned it. I usually used it with headphones except for the few times it was hooked to a PA. > realtime-2.6.20 + hibernate are still somewhat exclusive (see other > thread). - jack+ardour+sc+pd+.. work just great with USB soundcard(s). > It won't beat a PCI-Soundcard Desktop PC in performance but that's not a > point. - I have not yet tried Firewire audio, but ext. 1394-harddisks > work fine. (beware it's a 4pin connector only - no power via 1394 > connector as with most PC laptops!) Reportedly Ricoh Firefire chips (which the R50 used) aren't so good for some multimedia tasks. > Dual Core is quite well supported. I'd rather buy 2x32bit that 1x64bit - > at least for another year or so ;) - but Lenovo is not the cheap > solution. you might get similar performance with a Latitude D620. I just reviewed the offerings. The D620 offers some better cheap options (under $1000, the R60s are all Celerons), but by time you are looking at C2D T7200, they are neck and neck in price and the Thinkpad offers the nicer screen.
