From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Thu Nov 25 1999 - 23:23:40 EST
Perhaps this is why there is a newer model and a blow out of the earlier model..
I think there was a review that said the 240 was a bit shy on run time on
battery..
Steve wrote:
> I am wondering how many people on this list happen to have a ThinkPad 240?
>
> I have a Thinkpad 240 (as well as several other ThinkPads), it seems
> barely worthy of the name "ThinkPad"( I am very sorry to say as a very
> very dedicated ThinkPad fan)
>
> The NT support has problems, eg, the harddrive becomes unreachable for a
> few seconds if you're reading or writing to it when you remove or attach
> AC
> power, the same thing happens under linux which leads me to guess there is
> something wrong with the hardware design.
>
> The screen on my ThinkPad 755 is brighter then the screen on the
> 240(I know they want to conserve power on such a small unit, but I wish it
> would go a little brighter)
>
> Since I installed the latest bios sound no longer works under linux and I
> can no longer adjust the screen intensity when on battery power.
>
> As far as battery life goes I don't find it to be too much of a problem, I
> get about 1 hour under 98, 1.5 hours under NT and 2 hours if I run linux.
>
> I love the form factor, the keyboard is great,
> I'm just glad my company paid for it, not me.
>
> perhaps I've just been spoiled by my Thinkpad 770ed :)
>
> What do other people think that own them?
>
> On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Jane Loyless wrote:
>
> > At 07:13 PM 11/24/99 -0500, John Higgins wrote:
> >
> > >> the early 240 is being dumped.. the faster model is a C-366, otherwise
> > all else is
> > >> the same..
> > >>
> > >Let's face it, the differnce between a 300 and a 366mhz chip is pretty
> > >trivial. Makes the lower-end 240 a pretty tasty deal...
> > >
> >
> > Celaron 300 vs PII 366, but you're right - not much performance difference.
> >
> > I didn't like the TP240, BTW, and IBM's support for NT40 on it sucked.
> >
> > Jane
> >
-- Happy trails...** Bill Morrow ** :-) WEB page http://thinkpads.com e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_icanect.net
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