Martin

The 240X is higher specced than the 240. The one I am looking at is a P3 500.

The size of it is what drew me to it. I do like ThinkPads. I loved the 600 I had, amazing and quite fast for its specs.

Simon

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________________ Reply Header ________________ Subject: Re: [ALUG] ThinkPad 240X & Compaq Armada M300 Author: Martin Collins mobile.sea@gmail.com Date: 31st July 2010 12:29

I had a thinkpad 240 a long time ago and therefore haven't used any recent distrubutions on it. I think it had a Celeron 300MHz processor.

I was using it with SuSE Linux 7.3 and 8.0, possibly up to 8.1 before I sold it. From what I remember it wasn't very fast.

The 240 is small and has a small screen so you might be better off buying a 2nd hand netbook as it would be a lot faster and will run such recent distrubutions as UNR, etc.

Rgds,

Martin

On 31 July 2010 09:47, Simon Royal simonroyal@live.co.uk wrote:

Hi

I am looking at two laptops, finishing today on eBay. The two models above.

They are both similarly specced, both feature external optical drives, both max at the same amount of RAM.

Does anyone have any experience with these and Linux? Ive used Linux on another older ThinkPad and it was pretty easy.

Im not sure of the Compaq Armada M300.

Any help? Any suggestions?

Simon

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