I just got my T42p as a new work laptop. The one and only reason why I even dared to consider it was because of the Flexview screen, which I had heard wondrous praises of... I first tried a laptop from another brand that shall go unnamed, but in short I got the headaches from looking at the washed-o...

Well, one of the reasons why I even looked at a Thinkpad in the first place was that they were the only alternative without a wide screen... 8) In fact, judging by my own choice it is rather companies like Dell that are losing market share for not providing conservative users [like me...] with a pro...

When I actually *get* my T42p, I intend to load it with Debian unstable, then run a windows 2000 installation inside the QEMU CPU emulator, which is a free replacement for vmware. Such a setup enables you to run virtually all windows applications, since it is a cpu emulation and not just an API impl...

Mofongo wrote:Let me know if you find this useful!

The review you wrote was one of the main reasons I am now waiting for one of these beauties myself...
So "useful" is definitely an understatement.
Thanks for taking the time to write both the install guide and the review!

Regards,
Kristian

There is some useful information in the Battery Powered Linux HOWTO . Also, much can be found at google with the right keywords... I'm not sure about how to programmatically modify the brightness on a Thinkpad since I haven't received mine yet ( ...The wait is unbearable! )... :roll: But about the h...