How to find older software?

[sojourner]

Recently bought an X60. Experimenting with Lenovo software but having trouble finding older releases. Specifically looking for Power Manager v1.64.

Can someone tell me how to find it? FTP site?

Thanks

[loyukfai]

Found release note at...

http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc ... u708ww.txt

So you may try...

http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc ... u708ww.exe

OTOH, just curious, why would you want an elder version...?

Cheers.

[sojourner]

Thanks for the links. Just for the heck of it I tried going to sub-directories in the url to see if I could find an index of stored files but found none. Would you happen to know of an index page for their download website?

OTOH, just curious, why would you want an elder version...?

Most of the setups here are multi-boot. I keep a software repository (for future use) but try to save only that which meets certain criteria, for example:
1. compatible across platforms
2. does not require installation of additional software (e.g. newer power managers require .NET 3, only v2 is installed here and I'd rather not install v3)
3. avoids BLOAT
4. it works!

The last one may sound crazy but I hope none of us are so naive as to think newer is always better! In 24 years of using computers I've often found newer might introduce new bugs, or slow-down a system, break fuctionality with other software, etc. etc. etc., so I carefully choose what gets installed, what stays, what goes.

If anyone has a link to Lenovo's public file repository would sure appreciate it!

[loyukfai]

Umm sorry, I don't...

I would venture to go off-topic a bit through... Having just "upgraded" from an Palm OS-based Treo to an Android-based handset. I quite understand your sentiment - The new handset has more eye candies, but efficiency has gone far back, and it's not because of worse hardware.

With the Palm handset, when I had to create a new appointment for today, I could press the Datebk button, press the center key to unlock the phone, which brought up Datebk in today's day view, click a time slot, and start typing. Maybe I've over-simplified the procedure, but all in all, the actual entry on the phone can be done within 5s.

Now, I have to turn on the phone, unlock it, which is already slower because of the fade in and out effects. If it's not at the center launcher page, press the home button, or swipe to get there. Then, click the Calendar icon (which the screen sometimes doesn't register for whatever reason, but I thought the app is loading...), wait 3s for the app to load if it's been killed by the system because of low memory. After the app is loaded, if I'm lucky (most often not), I might find the time slot I want, long press to bring up context menu, click the create new event option, enter the appointment name, then press the back button, or scroll down to the bottom and press done......

If I have to create an event in future, I may as well go home and do it in Outlook, and let it syncs back to the phone. You will know if you've ever used Android's date/time picker...

Granted, mine is not one of those latest hardware, and in some other areas the new handset/OS is better. But it makes me admire more of those coders who can chunk out nice AND efficient apps.

Enough ranting, and have a nice weekend. : )