[plug] Buying a laptop

[Nathan Alberti]

Excellent choice, as stated I have the standard T42, the P versions have 
nicer video hardware (mine comes with the 64mb Radeon 9600). The only 
thing I had to do was get another 512Mb ram (1Gb total) which made it a 
bit happier for my application.

Nathan.

Benjamin Woods wrote:
> Decision made...
> 
> Going to get this IBM Centrino laptop.
> Apparently its f**king fast and brilliant at everything else!
> I KNOW i will be happy with it (despite the extra cost!)
> 
> ThinkPad T42p
> Model 2373KXM
> 
> http://www-604.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?
> productId=33038277&storeId=10000036&langId=036&categoryId=2056940&dualCurrId=10
> 00089&catalogId=-36
> 
> Its a beast!
> 
> Thanks for the help guys.
> Appreciate it.
> 
> BTW, the graphics card is this:
> Graphics chipset: ATI Mobility FIREGL T2
> Graphics type: UXGA IPS
> Graphics data width: 128
> Video RAM std/max: 128MB / 128MB
> Video RAM type: DDR SDRAM
> Max resolution (with max video
> RAM) NI:
> 2048x1536 16777216 colors
> Max colors (with max video RAM): 16777216
> Graphics bus interface: AGP 4X
> Graphics features: "SuperScene" Full Scene Multisampled antialiasing; Support 
> for hardware
> accelerated DirectX and OpenGL
> 
> sound ok?
> 
> From: Benjamin Woods
> woodsb02 at iinet.net.au
> Registered Linux User #372573 
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