Re: ThinkPad 600E....

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From: Bill_Abt/CAM/Lotus_at_lotus.com
Date: Fri Oct 09 1998 - 06:53:13 EDT

NT5 has support for DVD movies but only if you install over a working Win9x
system. You can't install the decoder provided by IBM under NT5....

-Bill

penzance/37:39 AM

To: "David W. Taylor" <detayls_at_sprynet.com>
cc: ThinkPad List <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Subject: Re: ThinkPad 600E....

David..
there never HAVE been NT4 DVD drivers..
i vaguely recall that there is a good reason that IBM has or can not write one..

David W. Taylor wrote:

> Sob....
>
> I know intellectually that the hardware I buy today will be obsoleted within
> a few months but it's hard when they improve on your beloved baby.
>
> There is a new ThinkPad 600E, which will be available early next month, that
> adds more disk, standard DVD and more speed to my now rapidly aging 600. (I
> want one!!!!)
>
> I gleaned this from the tbook.pdf file, that Mike Geary just hunted down.
>
> The good news is that I will soon be able to buy a DVD drive for my
> UltraSlimBay. The bad news is that the DVD movie feature will not work
> under Windows NT 4.0.
>
> Oh well....
>
> --
> David W. Taylor, Detayls
> detayls_at_sprynet.com 

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