From: Chuck Blaisdell (cblaisd_at_tdl.com)
Date: Tue Mar 07 2000 - 03:17:22 EST
Thought I'd offer a few reflections on a few days now with my new 600E
(PII-400, 10gb, 64, DVD). Delete if you're not interested <g>
First of all, this replaced my two year old 380ED. I had forgotten just how
extraordinarily better a TFT screen looks! I had gotten used to the DS
display on the 380 but was never real happy with it. Now I
know/remember why. The 600's display is incredibly sharp and
readable; the machine arrived with no bad pixels. The 13.3 screen is
very nice and the 600 form factor is a nice throwback to the 500 and 701
that I have owned before.
I upgraded, while it was still fresh, to Win98SE.
The DVD player works very well. Very, very few "drops" on viewing a
DVD movie.
A couple of oddities: The first time you run a dialup networking session,
the modem is silent, even if it is set for sound. After that first time, though,
you hear the normal dialing/connecting tones.
Every once in awhile, when clicking on a DUN connection, the blue
screen of death arrives and only a hard reboot fixes.
I'm very, very pleased with this machine, and feel better, too, once again
having a three year warranty.
A final oddity: I have an Apricorn Ez-Gig pcmcia hard drive that I use as
an external hard drive for backup, transfer of stuff to other machines, etc.
On the 380ED (also running Win98SE), the drive was immediately
recognized by Plug'n'Play and configured as a Hard Drive Controller. On
the 600, BEFORE upgrading to Win98SE, the card was "recognized" as
a SCSSI device (?!?) and device manager showed it not working
properly and indeed I couldn't access the drive. AFTER upgrading to
98SE, the system still "recognized" it as a SCSSI controller but now the
drive is accessible. Odd.
As with every ThinkPad I've owned, the price will go down soon, no doubt.
But I would very much recommend it! And if anybody knows a good
price for a 32 or 64mb RAM upgrade, I'd like to hear it. Bill??
Thanks for listening....
Chuck Blaisdell
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