On Wed, 12 Sep 2007, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'd second this. I've got a Thinkpad Z61M. Very well made, but the ATI > video and the Broadcom wireless are both difficult to get going; also > the sound is a problem. They all do work but it is not fun.
Get Intel wireless along with any thinkpad. Always. But don't expect drivers for less than one-year-old hardware to be fully stable and well supported, not even Intel always manages that. This is a golden rule, and applies to every hardware: as usual, the bleeding edge is not a wise place to be if you are not a driver developer. If you are lucky, the thinkpad will have proper e1000 ethernet instead of sort-of-ok tg3 ethernet (still, the tg3 found in thinkpads are fully supported by Linux, so it will work well anyway). ATI is getting fixed by AMD, fortunately. Don't get one of the new thinkpad with nVidia GPUs, go for Intel (immediate full Linux support with good open drivers) or ATI (good drivers are about one year away). But the thinkpad *firmware* in the new machines is still going to be trouble for about one year at the speed I am going with thinkpad-acpi. As for the sound, it is just the usual problem with very new hardware, and it has already been fixed upstream in ALSA AFAIK. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
