Hello, I'm considering buying a second-hand Thinkpad T60 (with 2 GB RAM), as a secondary laptop in order to run CentOS 5 on the field. My main focus is therefore to have something robust, reliable and above all well compatible with CentOS. Hibernate / suspend feature are important to me, because that's the main issue I have with CentOS on other laptops. I have found the following information so far: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installation_CentOS_5_on_a_Thinkpad_T60 The processor is a T2300 (so 32 bits apparently): http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=27233 I would be grateful if people having used CentOS on this model could share their experience (good or bad). Thanks in advance! Mathieu
Mathieu Baudier wrote:> > I'm considering buying a second-hand Thinkpad T60 (with 2 GB RAM), as > a secondary laptop in order to run CentOS 5 on the field.<snip>> I would be grateful if people having used CentOS on this model could > share their experience (good or bad).Oddly enough, I asked on another techie mailing list I'm on just last week or so, for someone I know considering a laptop, and a T60 was greatly approved of. mark
On Wed, 2011-02-16 at 15:52 +0100, Mathieu Baudier wrote:> I'm considering buying a second-hand Thinkpad T60 (with 2 GB RAM), as > a secondary laptop in order to run CentOS 5 on the field.One thing you might, or happily might not, have difficulties with is the wifi driver. Most drivers are available from various sources. C5 is based on kernel 2.6.18. More wifi drivers were added to kernel 2.6.27, I think. C6 will be based on kernel 2.6.34, I believe. If you have difficulties with wifi, you'll get help here. Centos is a splendid choice for laptop reliability. I have it on a netbook and on a laptop. Its so much better, for me certainly, than Windoze. With best regards, Paul. England, EU.
On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Mathieu Baudier <mbaudier at argeo.org> wrote:> Hello, > > I'm considering buying a second-hand Thinkpad T60 (with 2 GB RAM), as > a secondary laptop in order to run CentOS 5 on the field. > > My main focus is therefore to have something robust, reliable and > above all well compatible with CentOS. > Hibernate / suspend feature are important to me, because that's the > main issue I have with CentOS on other laptops. > > I have found the following information so far: > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installation_CentOS_5_on_a_Thinkpad_T60 > > The processor is a T2300 (so 32 bits apparently): > http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=27233 > > I would be grateful if people having used CentOS on this model could > share their experience (good or bad).We had several of the T60s as corporate laptops. I've installed CentOS and RHEL on them without much problem. Most everything worked fine. The only issue I saw was battery life wasn't so great from a full charge. It seemed to run a bit hot. After a meeting it would be at 40% charge after about an hour.