From: Bruce Markowitz (scosgt_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: Mon Sep 24 2001 - 18:13:01 EDT
Nope, the 300 will not run DVD smooth in software. The 300 MHZ 600E will,
due to thye AGP video with motion compensation
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Machule" <machule_at_triumf.ca>
To: "Colin Tunnah" <c.tunnah_at_btinternet.com>
Cc: "thinkpad" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 3:54 PM
Subject: Re: TP600 & DVD
> It's kinda on the edge ....re 300MHz .
> Win2K should be better than Win98
> Add 128MB first, since that costs almost nothing.
> << $20 .
> Wasn't this the only laptop on the planet that could NOT take PC100
> memory, but required PC66 ??
>
> Make sure that DMA mode is enabled.
> Drive works fine, it's only going to run at 1X anyway
> ..BUT getting the software is a real Bitch !
> ;-}
>
> The table makes absolutely no sense BTW .
> Very odd .
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Colin Tunnah" <c.tunnah_at_btinternet.com>
> To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Sent: Monday, September 24, 2001 12:38 PM
> Subject: TP600 & DVD
>
>
> > I am strongly considering the purchase of a dvd ultraslim 2x drive(#
> > 05K8890 ) for movie playback on my TP600 2645 450 300mhz 128kb system, I
> > also propose to buy the recommended Margi pc card.
> >
> > I am slightly confused by the IBM site at
> > http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/LWIK-3YCMP9.html although the matrix
> states
> > that the 2x drive does not support dvd movie playback, does this mean
> > WITHOUT the Margi card it won't support playback and with the Margi card
> > installed it will support?
> > thanks
> >
> > Colin
> >
> >
> > visit Colin's U2 site at www.nireland.com/c.tunnah/
> >
> >
>
>
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