new Lenovo T61 arrived with SLED 10 SP1 preload


Hey, jpd -- despite the appearance of the Windoze Key (which is
basically a second Alt key), the keyboard is much improved in
solidity and feel from my 3+ year old T41p. The widescreen 15.4
aspect ration of 16:10 is still a little strange, but gives a
decent 1680x1050. The physical package is a little better
engineered that the old IBM.

All Thinkpad models come with the trackpoint, but some have only
a trackpoint. First thing to do with the Synaptics touchpad is
disable it, of course.

The processor/motherboard doesn't support VT, but Xen seems to
work well for those OSes that are paravirtualized. I have
installed a FreeBSD 7.0 instance under VMware, and look forward
to not having to do it that way.

I ordered a SATA holder that fits in the DVD drive tray, so
when it arrives I'll see what level of effort is involved
in getting a decent Gnome or KDE3 desktop working with
FreeBSD running natively -- and how much of the rest of
the hardware works.

- M


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