Quick Z61t (9440CTO) Review

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Brillig · #1 Post by **Brillig** » Sun Mar 04, 2007 10:05 pm

This machine is a thing of beauty. Yes, it sweats Areo a little bit, but I found a well placed USB drive helps (replaces the page file) to speed the machine.
I have to admit that no one other than PC purchasers and tech folk should never get this OS, but after a while, it is absolutely beautiful.
This Z61t has the 945 chipset, 1.5g RAM, and the 1.83 duo core. Nothing special, but the WOW did start. I can't wait to load XP and watch it run naturally.

Get this pad.

Talon88 · #2 Post by **Talon88** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 3:15 am

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I agree that the Z6xt model is a very sexy format.
Light & Slim! Especially you don't need a ATI Video
Card !

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itzcoolz · #3 Post by **itzcoolz** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:32 pm

i must agree... despite all the heat that the z series gets, i really love my z61t.

i have not yet installed vista... so it doesn't handle the aero interface too smoothly? everybody told me it would run it fine. boo

do you mind going into more detail on how well it works? i have a similar configuration: t7200 w/ 2gigs of ram

Brillig · #4 Post by **Brillig** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 4:36 pm

Oh, it does run it. Like I said, it sweats it under a heavy load (video almost seems to blink), but ReadyBoost remedies the situation (using 4g flash drive), and the more RAM the better for this machine.

iMav · #5 Post by **iMav** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:11 am

Anyone happen to be running linux on their z6xt's?

sapibobo · #6 Post by **sapibobo** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 12:55 am

Nothing beats RAM upgrade to increase speed, includes ready boost. If you have RAM over 1GB ready boost wont give you performance increase as much as you get when your RAM is below 1GB.
http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/02/08/analy ... index.html

Upgrade your RAM to above 1GB, the ready boost become useless and you can get rid that annoying USB flash.

cwf · #7 Post by **cwf** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:43 pm

iMav wrote:Anyone happen to be running linux on their z6xt's?

I run primarily Ubuntyu 6.10 Edgy Eft on my Z61t. Got everything working except the webcam...no drivers yet.

Talon88 · #8 Post by **Talon88** » Wed Mar 14, 2007 4:08 am

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Linux & my Z60t, no problem!
No driver issue as well because I use
IBM Atheros Wireless.

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treydur · #9 Post by **treydur** » Wed Mar 21, 2007 6:48 am

I have almost the exact machine as you, but mine is dual core 2GHz w/ 2GB ram

I ran with and without 4GB readyboost unit and I had zero problems running Aero

My issue with Vista was some older devices just did not and were not every going to have drivers for Vista. I am not throwing perfectly good devices out just to upgrade windows.

I also just ordered the dock for this (the hi end one) and it should be here Friday. I also already have a spare 256MB PCI-x card to put in unit, so i might run Visa while docked, just for fun.

and by the way, I don't know who is giving the Z series any greif, but they sure haven't play with this one. Like others have said, it is a thing of beauty.

My first laptop was a Dell P 300Mhz, so I have been using them for a long long time now. Nothing else compares to this unit. Period

Brillig wrote:This machine is a thing of beauty. Yes, it sweats Areo a little bit, but I found a well placed USB drive helps (replaces the page file) to speed the machine.
I have to admit that no one other than PC purchasers and tech folk should never get this OS, but after a while, it is absolutely beautiful.
This Z61t has the 945 chipset, 1.5g RAM, and the 1.83 duo core. Nothing special, but the WOW did start. I can't wait to load XP and watch it run naturally.

Get this pad.

BlueDevilTide · #10 Post by **BlueDevilTide** » Wed Mar 28, 2007 3:02 am

Any other thoughts on Vista on the machine? I am deciding between either a Z61t or a T60 for my sister. While I know XP like the back of my hand, I figure she'll need Vista at some point in her life (this notebook will be hers for about four years...) so might as well get it now rather than a troublesome upgrade.

The model I'm looking at is a 1.66ghz C2D with 2gb of ram (pricey...) and Intel a950 graphics. What kinda battery life might one expect out of the 7-cell versus the 4-cell, and how heavy might it be?

Thanks for the help. I got a friend of mine a Z61t after much of the same debate (and neither are power users) so I'm not sure where to go. Portability is big for my sister, so a 14WS might be better than 14 4:3.

treydur · #11 Post by **treydur** » Thu Mar 29, 2007 5:32 pm

Unless they ship the unit you are looking at with Vista, my personal opinion is that 1.66 is not enough CPU, I think my Z61T handled it well because I have the 4MB T7200 processor, 2GB RAM and 7200RPM drive

While it ran it well, I would not tell you that it manhandled it and the best user experience I could get Visa to report was 3.2

I also think XP has very useful 5 years left in it. If your the default tech support for this unit, you may really regret sending a unit out with Vista at this stage. One of my biggest frustrations was lack of support for Printers, etc that were only a couple of years old. MFG's were just not planning on releasing drivers for those devices for Vista, not windows fault, but not an upsell either.

hircus · #12 Post by **hircus** » Mon Apr 23, 2007 1:45 am

Talon88 wrote::::
Linux & my Z60t, no problem!
No driver issue as well because I use
IBM Atheros Wireless.
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Note that the Atheros 802.11 a/b/g/n chipset that is offered as an option for the Z61 models is not officially supported on Linux and the BSDs yet. The reverse-engineered driver has just landed in their development trunk, and as I understand it there's no encryption support (WEP/WPA) yet.

I'd stick with Intel's 3945 for now. Actually, I'm aiming for the Santa Rosa refresh in May, so it'll be the 4965 (hopefully Intel will release the Linux driver around the same time), with the added bonus that according to another thread, the BIOS (well, the BIOS emulation of the EFI firmware

) will have virtualization support turned on.

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