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Date:  Sat, 01 Oct 2005 12:02:41 -0400
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From:  Lewis G Rosenthal <os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com>
To:  os2-wireless_users@2rosenthals.com
Subject: [OS2Wireless] IBM T30 notebook - Wireless PCI IRQ?)

Sorry for the delay, Mark...

On 09/26/2005 11:06 pm, Mark Henigan thus wrote :

<snip>
> Hello Lewis:
>
> Leider nicht...  I have some major tasks that conflict
> with the Warpstock schedule this year.  Also, I have a
> T30 but was hoping that the card that worked in the T23
> would do so in the T30.
>
Yeah, I hate when that happens. You don't get the dreaded, "illegal card 
detected" message, do you? There's a quick fix for that one.
>>> I agree with most of what you say here.  However, my K6-III
>>> at 400MHz on an FIC PA2013 is faster than my T30.  I'm
>>> guessing that this is because of the cpu that many have
>>> told me is a poorly designed model.  
>>
>> I'm currently using a T30 with a 1.8GHz P4M. I had a chat with Knut 
>> some time back about this, and he told me that the Centrino chips are 
>> just more efficient than the P4M's. That said, with a gig of RAM in 
>> my T30, it's pretty snappy.
>
> Unfortunately, I have one of the T30s with a defective
> memory slot.  
I had that with mine, too. They did manage to turn it back around to me 
within 72 hours from the time it left my hands, however. Best advice is 
to strip the machine down to whatever doesn't come out of it. I sent 
mine in with no RAM, NIC, drives, or battery.
> I must send it in for depot repair and
> can't be without it.  Right now I have a 512MB DIMM
> installed.  It rarely comes anywhere close to swapping.
> So, I'm not sure how much better it will be with a GB
> of RAM.  
I notice the difference between 512MB and 1GB, but I suppose it depends 
upon how much stuff you run concurrently.
> By the way, I have the same processor.  It's
> quick enough with most tasks but underpowered for VPC.
Agreed.
> Most of my comparisons are based on using PMView and
> WP51DOS, two programs that I consider pretty nimble.
Gotta love those slim DOS apps, huh? MS Word 5.0 sings (and it's a bound 
app; it runs in 16-bit OS/2 mode as well as DOS). That's probably the 
last MS program I really liked... ;-)

For me, however, things are a bit more involved. I usually have Mozilla 
running with a dozen or so tabs open, Mozilla Mail, Citrix, Lotus 
Organizer, and probably a handful of other things and I rotate between 
them fairly regularly. I do try to keep some of the constantly-polling 
DOS apps shut down until I need them (Lotus 1-2-3 2.4, is an example), 
and I've taken to running most of the Win16 apps under W2K in the Citrix 
session. This saves me CPU cycles as well as RAM resources.

<snip>
>> Yes, the high res LCD's are truly nice. However, for the T30, these 
>> are much more costly to replace than for the T4x series. I just did 
>> one for a T30, and a refurb LCD cost $495 from my supplier (as 
>> compared to the SXGA+ for the T42, which was $325).
>
> It's crazy, isn't it?  It's like the relative cost of
> old RAM.  I'm looking at the possibility of moving up
> to a T40 once their used and refurbished prices come
> down.  Right now, I'm waiting for my Intel SE7501WV2-
> SCSI320 board to arrive while I try to find a pair of
> cpus and at least 1GB of memory that I can afford.
> It should allow me to get some work done, at least
> when I'm at home.
>
This is a nice board (just looked it up), though discontinued. I'm 
curious as to its OS/2 compatibility (though with SCSI, you're probably 
safe). The last Intel server board I picked up (bundled in an 
Intel-supplied 1U case) was completely intolerant of OS/2 (it was an 
ATA-100 RAID unit, and I'm not fond of IDE servers, anyway). I couldn;t 
even get the OS to install.

I can check with my suppliers about CPUs and RAM for you, if you like. I 
get fairly decent pricing on RAM, and average pricing on CPUs. Let me 
know if I may be of any help.

Lewis
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