[PLUG] Lenovo T410?

Mike Connors mconnors1 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 10 22:29:06 UTC 2010


>
> Mike,
>
>   I'm looking very seriously at a HP Pavillion dm4t. I increased the memory
> and battery sizes, specified the 320G/7200rpm drive instead of the 160G SSD
> drive, and specified the Intel wifi chip:
>
>     * Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-430M Dual Core processor (2.26GHz, 3MB L2 Cache)
>        with Turbo Boost up to 2.53GHz
>     * 4GB DDR3 System Memory (2 Dimm)
>     * 320GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive with HP ProtectSmart Hard Drive
>        Protection
>     * Intel(R) HD Graphics
>     * 14.0" diagonal High-Definition HP BrightView LED Display (1366 x 768)
>        -For HP Mobile Broadband WWAN
>     * SuperMulti 8X DVD+/-R/RW with Double Layer Support
>     * HP TrueVision Webcam + Fingerprint Reader + Digital Microphone
>     * Intel Wireless-N Card
>     * Full-size island-style keyboard
>     * 9 Cell Lithium Ion Battery (over-sized)
>
>   The price is $835 with free 5-8 day shipping. I also did not list all the
> M$ that will immediately be scrubbed off the drive.
>
> Hmm, that's a pretty nice package worth serious consideration. I had a HP
> Pavillion a few yrs. back. It was considerably lighter than my Thinkpad.
> Don't recall having any problems running Debian / 'Buntu.
>

I wonder about Linux support of: Wireless-N, DVD dual layer, Webcam.

And its got "Turbo Boost"!. Ha, I still can't believe marketers use this...



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