Re: [tlug] Advice on a new ThinkPad purchase

["Mark Makdad" <makdad@example.com>]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 10:30 PM, David Smith <davidsmith@example.com> wrote:

The T61 comes in nvidia and intel graphics variants. Be sure you get the
one you want. All in all, it's quite a good machine. Biggest complaint
is that they changed the keyboard and it has less of the good-old IBM
keyboard feel than even the X61 or T60.

David,

Yes, I was planning on the nvidia chipset, as I am annoyed with my current T30's ATI Radeon.  Compiz and Radeon do not play well together.

I am a little concerned about the keyboard-- this is one main reason that I continually choose ThinkPad.  I heard that the "ThinkPad store" [1] in Akihabara will switch keyboards in and out for you; e.g. if you were to buy a Japanese ThinkPad they would switch it with an English keyboard for an additional cost.

Anyway, I'll probably end up buying today and post my install log to my blog and link it back here, in case anyone's curious.

Thanks for the help!

Cheers

Mark

[1] http://www.wakamatsu.co.jp/