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Lenovo Announces ThinkPads Preloaded With XP
Posted by
kdawson
on Thu Dec 06, 2007 10:35 AM
from the give-'em-what-they-want dept.
from the give-'em-what-they-want dept.
BBCWatcher writes "Lenovo just announced new ThinkPad T61 models preloaded with Microsoft Windows XP. Ironically they're called ThinkPad T61 'TopSeller' models. Lenovo says they're aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. The XP TopSellers are available immediately, and the part numbers are 6465-03U, 7658-04U, and 7664-06U (PDF links). "Lenovo recommends Windows Vista Business"? Not so much."
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Dell too. (Score:5, Informative)
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They're hardly pushing it (see quote below), but it's still very much an option.
This is news? (Score:5, Informative)
And we're not some large megacorp either -- we buy maybe 2-3 computers every 6 weeks.
Re:This is news? (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Try a regular store (Score:5, Interesting)
Consumer demand..? (Score:5, Insightful)
So the news is that a company selling computers is selling something that the consumer's been asking for? Who'd've thought it? While I'm glad that another company, following Dell and some others, has bucked the Microsoft line, I'm not sure that it's particularly astounding.
On the other hand though, kudos to them for doing so. Now if only they'd lose the '$Company recommends Windows Vista $model' branding I'd be even more impressed. Why claim to recommend something that you fairly obviously don't? I'm aware that there are provisos from Microsoft for supplying lower-cost OEM software to these companies but, surely, at some point the marketing/PR departments are going to realise that trying to play on both sides of a particular game isn't going to look too good for them?
Ah, me and my optimism...
Re:Consumer demand..? (Score:5, Insightful)
Why Won't MS Do Dual Licensing? (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Why Won't MS Do Dual Licensing? (Score:5, Informative)
The OEM versions of Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate include downgrade rights to Windows XP Professional, Windows XP Professional x64, and Windows XP Tablet PC.
From here [microsoft.com]
This is the end I tell you! (Score:5, Funny)
Wait a minute....
Re:This is the end I tell you! (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:This is the end I tell you! (Score:4, Informative)
M$ has many other products like SQL Server, Exchange, Windows Server, and Office that bring in the dough, even if Vista totally fails...
And? (Score:4, Funny)
Vista to XP - upgrade or downgrade? (Score:4, Insightful)
The only downgrade from Vista to XP is the price..
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Been using a ThinkPad with Vista for half a year (Score:4, Interesting)
1. By default the CPU is set to run at half the speed. My notebook came with a 1.8Ghz Core2 Duo, but by default the power settings are set to run it at 900Mhz. In fact thats the only speed the laptop does not get hot as hell. Even at the lower speed most desktop apps work fast enough.
2. I did a few tweaks myself like disable shadow copy and windows defender. I decided to leave the indexer on since I actually like what it provides.
3. With the most recent updates I think a few annoying things got fixed. The laptop comes out of sleep faster and copying seems to be faster.
4. Wireless networking sometimes is flaky. I don't know if Vista is responsible or its due to the interference where I live or its the lenovo wireless utils that are sluggish.
5. I really like the minor UI improvements in Vista like the new resource monitor. I don't see why it cant be back ported to XP.
How is this news? (Score:3, Informative)
But... (Score:3, Interesting)
We just bought a Sony laptop with Vista and poor techie had to spend ages upgrading it to XP... Yes, I do mean upgrading... Seems Sony don't do XP graphics drivers for this model, you have to use Win 2k ones with a modified
Re:But... (Score:5, Informative)
Try http://www.emperorlinux.com/mfgr/lenovo/toucan/
Posted from a T61 (Score:5, Interesting)
I flattened the machine and installed a fresh copy of Vista Ultimate. With the all the cruft gone, things are now flying on the machine, and I'm quite happy with the OS. The difference is astounding.
All these negative comments I kept hearing about Vista make sense now, but it's clear that at least some of the disenchanment is misdirected. Don't OEM's actually use the machines they send out?
Re:had to go back to xp because of IPX/SPX (Score:4, Funny)
Re:had to go back to xp because of IPX/SPX (Score:4, Funny)
yes (Score:5, Informative)
Windows 2
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Me
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