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Intel PIII Celeron 500 Mobile / Pentium III 500 / 700 Mobile based.
Screens:
12in 800x600
14.1in 1024x768
15 in 1024x768
Floppy built in
CDROM in removable bay
Ports:
1 serial
1 parallel
1 ps/2 keyboard
1 VGA
1 USB 1.1
1 IrDA (4Mbps)
1 docking connector
1 RJ11 (56k modem) (option)
1 RJ45 (10/100BaseT Ethernet) (option)
1 headphone
1 line in
1 mic in
2 type I / type II (1 type III) PCMCIA
Stereo speakers
Built-in input devices:
ps/2 keyboard (half height function and home/end/... keys, inverted T cursor keys)
ps/2 3 button trackpoint (matchhead) pointing device
6 or 12 GB hard drive
Memory expandable to 512MB
Fedora Core 2 installs and runs fine with no extra intervention, with the exeption of the modem, which is a Xircom 'winmodem' - see linmodems.org for enlightenment.
'apmd' doesn't function properly (due, I believe, to a non standard BIOS), however suspending via the keyboard and closing the lid works fine. Resyncing the system clock with 'hwclock -s' is recommended when the system wakes, as is restarting networking and PCMCIA services.
APM battery monitoring works.
No ACPI support.
Good:
Fantastic keyboard and bullet-proof construction. I can get 2.5 hours from a two year old battery on the 500Mhz PIII.
Bad:
Screen viewing angle is quite limited, so corners can seem dark. Relatively heavy (it was designed as a desktop replacement).
NB:
Running lm_sensors' sensors-detect is said to destroy data on the EEPROM on some Thinkpad models. I don't know if this is one of them, and I'm not willing to find out the hard way. I would advise against it anyway.
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