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Dear All,

I am thinking about buying a US model T60p 2623 Linux ThinkPad with the following spec.

- Core Duo T2500 / 2GHz
- 1GB RAM
- 100GB HDD
- DVD Writer
- Mobility FireGL V5200 256MB
- 14.1" TFT 1400 x 1050 (SXGA+)
- Gigabit Ethernet
- a/b/g Wireless Lan
- Bluetooth

However, I could not find it in the Tabook. My local vendor told me that the machine comes with Linux. It will be a new machine with 1-year US warantee. However, he could not supply me with the last three digits after 2623 of the model number.

I am thinking of using it as a dedicated Linux machine. I have used T60 in Windows VISTA but have no experience with any t60p 2623 machine. I guess they will get hotter.

I would like to know whether anyone have any experience (good or bad) of using this machine. Did the WLAN work in Linux out of the box? Any other experiences?

Regards

Shoaib

Shoaib,

I have a similar 2623 T60p and using Kubuntu (any other flavor of the Ubuntu will have similar output) I didn't run into any problems. I didn't look into hibernation, standby, fingerprint reader but otherwise everything else worked perfectly - including the WLAN. X works fine with 1600x1200 resolution, even Compiz-Fusion works fine after enabling and configuring it right. My 2623 T60p also has Verizon WWAN but I have no experience with it.

IHTH.

bhuiyan wrote:Dear All,

I am thinking about buying a US model T60p 2623 Linux ThinkPad with the following spec.

I would like to know whether anyone have any experience (good or bad) of using this machine. Did the WLAN work in Linux out of the box? Any other experiences?

Regards

Shoaib

Ubuntu is the best of the bunch for an easy to use Linux distro. PCLinuxOS is a very good second choice.

The main reason I prefer these two is the Wireless can be set up more easily because the menu shows the user the signals that are in the area. Most other Linux distros are very frustrating to get started with Wireless.

Hibernate will not work, Sleep may or may not work, most of the nice ThinkPad hot buttons (screen magnify, Keyboard Customizer, etc, do not work in Linux.

Even when running off the hard drive, some Ubuntu menus and features are too slow for my tastes.

On the good side, multimedia codecs and other things needed for your videos and music pretty much install automatically out of Add/Remove.

My operating system preferences (based on years of experimenting) are still: XP, Vista, and then a distant 3rd would be Linux.

Fedora 8 picked up standby, hibernation, wifi etc on my Thinkpad T61 which has brand new hardware so I doubt with Ubuntu, Fedora, or any modern distribution you'll have issues.