Hi,
Dennis den Brok wrote:
I am considering getting a ThinkPad T61 or T500 to run OpenBSD on.
My main concern is the noise level: I'd prefer the fan not to run
at all during text editing and web browsing. Can anyone comment
on that? Are there other caveats?
I have a T60 which is similar, everything seems to work well, noise
level is acceptable. Of course while compiling or heavy browsing, I the
fans spin, but but not soo bad. I have the ATi video card and run OpenBSD.
I have some strange artifacts with the videocard with certain
applications, but it is still usable. I do not have stability problems
nor mouse/trackpad issues.
I have a second T60 with the Intel graphics, slightly slower CPU.. it
runs much quieter and have no issues at all, although it runs FreeBSD.
So if you don't need the graphics and are fine with Intel, you get less
fan spinning.
Riccardo
