From: "Neil Waldhauer" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTP id 2646602 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:01:32 -0400 Received: from secmgr-va.2rosenthals.com ([162.83.95.194] helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by secmgr-ny.randr with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1OwgBU-0000yh-Rh for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:01:24 -0400 Received: from host1.cruzio.com ([63.249.93.201]:53432) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OwgBQ-0000qP-0m for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 17 Sep 2010 15:01:16 -0400 Received: (qmail 69761 invoked from network); 17 Sep 2010 12:01:14 -0700 Received: from dsl-63-249-111-252.dhcp.cruzio.com (HELO 192.168.46.78) (63.249.111.252) by baywarp.org with SMTP; 17 Sep 2010 12:01:14 -0700 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A020202.4C93BAFC.0165,ss=1,fgs=0 Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:01:11 -0700 To: "eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List" In-Reply-To: References: Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] T410: Lenovo's Thoughtful ThinkPad Is a Near-Perfect Machine MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: The Polarbar Mailer; version=1.25d; build=2006 X-Mailer-Platform: OS/2; architecture=x86; version=20.45 X-Mailer-Java-VM: IBM Corporation; version=J2RE 1.3.1 IBM build co131-20060605 (SR10) (JIT enabled: jitc); compiler=jitc Message-ID: On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 12:45:54 -0400 (EDT), "Julian Thomas" wrote: > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 05:46:34 -0700 Neil Waldhauer wrote: > > > >Did your T60 ever work? Nothing beyond a T60 will work as well. > > > Not even a T61? It would seem so. All T61 and many T60 have graphics adapters that fall back to VESA mode. That's what more modern laptops are going to have, too. It looks to me like a lot of effort in the eCS world is going on right now to get the Intel 950-based T60 to work better. With proper CPU management in ACPI, newer laptops would run faster. With better Panorama, graphics would be speedier. With improvements in USB and audio, system stability will improve. A year from now, laptops will be a different story due to these improvements. If your preference is for a new laptop, it will probably mostly work even now. A year from now, WiFi support will probably still be an issue. Neil -- Neil Waldhauer, neil@blondeguy.com What is a wazoo and how much do you have to have before something starts coming out of it?