[talk] Thinkpad

[Steven Kreuzer]

> On Feb 14, 2015, at 4:41 PM, George Rosamond <george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
> 
> Steven Kreuzer:
>> 
>>> On Feb 11, 2015, at 10:46 AM, George Rosamond <george at ceetonetechnology.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Mark Saad:
>>>> All
>>>> On Woot today, the t420 for $279
>>>> 
>>>> http://computers.woot.com/?ref=cnt_sb_cp_2
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> hey, it's one of those 16G of RAM laptops mentioned last night.  And it
>>> comes in at a whopping 4.9 lbs.  I'd go X series and squint over
>>> slipping a disk.
>>> 
>>> This is the closet model AFAIK in dmesgd, the T400.
>>> 
>>> http://www.nycbug.org/index.cgi?action=dmesgd&do=view&id=2588 <http://www.nycbug.org/index.cgi?action=dmesgd&do=view&id=2588>
>> 
>> My T420 just arrived today and the longest part of the install process was the amount of time it took
>> to write the memstick image to a usb thumb drive. All the hardware was detected and it even suspends
>> and resumes without issue.
>> 
>> It also looks like you can bump this laptop up to 16GB of RAM for about 130 bucks, which isn’t too bad
>> 
>> I just submitted my dmesg.boot to dmesgd
> 
> Remarkable that a new laptop today, especially a T-series Thinkpad,
> could have a mere 4G of RAM in it.
> 
> how is the iwn(4)?

 
So far, so good. When I was installing this machine, bsdinstaller found my access point and after I associated with it I was up and running.