Thinkpads Forum

I'm a bit of a newbie and I'm trying to find as much information as I can and asking here is part of that. So don't bite my head off.

I attended a seminar by Lenovo and these seminars usually have special rebates for the wares they are promoting and so I bought the Lenova 3000 N100. .

Before I never even heard of Lenovo and thought they were some upstart IT company trying to sell stuff. I went there (actually most seminars I attended) for the food, prizes and the short skirted service desk girls (or whatever you call them).

Anyway, at the end of the long winded speeches I concluded that Lenovo bought IBM. Even someone like me can realize what a big deal that is. An American icon bought by a chinese company...to sum it up.

Now the Qs:

1. Reading this sub-forum there are lots of negative views regarding Lenovo. So I'm kinda worried if people will scoff at the label (which is admittedly cheap looking on the Laptop).

I would scoff people with Thinkpads when I'm using my Vaio :p

2. This laptop's Core2Duo, can it run WinXP x64 edition since it supports EM64T according to CPUz ?

If so, I've been looking high and low for the 64bit drivers. Can anyone point me to them ?

3. I'm also interested in installing Vista and also need to find drivers. Please point me to them, the x86 and/or x64 versions pls.

Thanks a lot.

Actually nevermind I traded it for an IBM ThinkPad R60e A73. Cost like $200 more coz the person I got for didn't like the 3000 N100. Not sure why. The only thing I didn't like is that the display hurt my eyes, the new Thinkpad isn't that much better though. It doesn't feel more luxurious or better built. It's the same Laptop only more expensive and has BT.

And I still need those XP (and Vista) x64 drivers. Don't you need a 64bit OS to take full advantage of the Core2duo ? Why the **** do they ship with WindowsXP 32-bit anyway.

Thinkpads are business centric I guess and there's not much use for it in MM or games. As long as it can run Excel it's super.

O well I will never use IBM/Lenovo. No offense. Please help me finding those drivers though.