I tried installing an updated driver from ATI today... even though it claimed support for my card, it did not work. I'm not too worried about it, I already returned the Huey, and I use an external monitor which is pretty good.
Well...any ideas on how to pass the time while I wait? I don't think I'll do any more photo processing (except for what the paper needs) until it arrives. Didn't take very long for me to go mad from the waiting did it?
Well...any ideas on how to pass the time while I wait? I don't think I'll do any more photo processing (except for what the paper needs) until it arrives. Didn't take very long for me to go mad from the waiting did it?
Obviously you should spend the time second guessing your purchase. Isn't that what we all do?
If it matters to you, try the guys over at forum.thinkpads.com. Since you have the FireGL branded cards, you get the professional drivers which might lock this out (it appears that LUT adjustability is driver controlled), and the guys there seem to have ways to run Radeon drivers on FireGL branded cards. It's unlikely that this will work, but it's possible.
I did something I would normally never do... I installed the suggested video driver from Windows Update. Poof, the LUT application works now.
Late to the table.. But I'm sitting here using an IBM T42 my office issued me. (Was the boss', I'm the FNG, so I get her hand-me-down.) I'd never used a Thinkpad before. Overall I'm very impressed w/ it. The display leaves a little something to be desired (it's only 1024x768 :nah) and the keyboard is just non-standard enough to drive me nuts. But it is very rugged.
My favorite feature of it is the docking station/port replicator. It is top notch and entirely invaluable. Here at the officina I have a full keyboard, external flat panel, a second-old CRT, my trusty trackball, the local 'net, and an external HDD all plugged into the replicator. I just unpack the 'top from my bag in the AM and drop it onto the replicator. At night you hit the oversized eject button and be gone. Very well implemented.
I highly recommend you invest in one if this new prize is to serve as a desktop replacement.
That's a strike against the macs: no docking station/replicators!
That's a strike against the macs: no docking station/replicators!
The new replicators even let you plug in a PCI Express video card that's for desktops into them (i.e. you can run any vid card in a T60 that you can run in a desktop).
Well, I can afford it, but it's not nothing to me. Let me ask this. If I'm never going into the page file, will adding ram make a difference?
My guess is "yes" but I don't have anything to back that up (without doing some Googling). Page files are used by the OS even when you're not at maximum capacity. If you start serious memory swapping because you're out of physical memory, then something is usually wrong (or you have way too many applications open).
I decided that rather than ram (since ram amount hasn't really been a bottleneck for me with my current laptop that has 1 gig with 128mb of that going towards the video card), I'm upgrading the hard drive right off the bat, so I ordered a 7200rpm 100gb hard drive (will get here one day before my new lappy) and an ultrabay case for the 5400rpm 120gb hard drive that will ship inside my thinkpad - so I'll be able to have 220gb inside the laptop at a time in the form of 100gb at 7200rpm and 120gb at 5400rpm (to be fair, that requires pulling out the cd drive, but it's hot-swappable). Can your precious macs hold 220gb MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (that's supposed to be an evil laugh).
I'm sorry for all the mac hate, it's just that I saw another one of those I'm a mac and I'm a pc commercials, and I swear after being in a room with that mac guy for about 5 minutes I'd punch him in the face. This isn't 1969, shave your face and cut your hair.
I decided that rather than ram (since ram amount hasn't really been a bottleneck for me with my current laptop that has 1 gig with 128mb of that going towards the video card), I'm upgrading the hard drive right off the bat, so I ordered a 7200rpm 100gb hard drive (will get here one day before my new lappy) and an ultrabay case for the 5400rpm 120gb hard drive that will ship inside my thinkpad - so I'll be able to have 220gb inside the laptop at a time in the form of 100gb at 7200rpm and 120gb at 5400rpm (to be fair, that requires pulling out the cd drive, but it's hot-swappable). Can your precious macs hold 220gb MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (that's supposed to be an evil laugh).
I'm sorry for all the mac hate, it's just that I saw another one of those I'm a mac and I'm a pc commercials, and I swear after being in a room with that mac guy for about 5 minutes I'd punch him in the face. This isn't 1969, shave your face and cut your hair.
The more RAM the better, if you run out of RAM the computer creates space on the hard drive to use as RAM which is slower than if you have RAM. If you don't get the extra RAM a faster HD helps if you get both then better.
yeah buy a mac. the company that stuck with a one button mouse for eternity.
idiocy. macs are fashionable and sleek looking. the end. any company that is as stupid and stubborn to stick with an inferior interface to the product (via the mouse) out of pride or fashion...
is a loser in my book.
id rather buy an american car over a honda then get a mac.
yeah buy a mac. the company that stuck with a one button mouse for eternity.
idiocy. macs are fashionable and sleek looking. the end. any company that is as stupid and stubborn to stick with an inferior interface to the product (via the mouse) out of pride or fashion...
is a loser in my book.
id rather buy an american car over a honda then get a mac.
Um, Athos... Stop running around in circles and look around. I know a few Mac people that have more than a simple one button mouse attached. You do know that multiple button mice work too, right? And that editing pads can also be attached? And more.
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Very nice! I'm sure you'll enjoy it.
I tried installing an updated driver from ATI today... even though it claimed support for my card, it did not work.
Obviously you should spend the time second guessing your purchase. Isn't that what we all do?
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If I had paid full price, yes. If I had paid full discounted price, yes. The price I paid? I'm trying, but I can't.
Will wonders never cease...
Huzzah!
I guess not 10 days till shipping because.
It shipped!
My favorite feature of it is the docking station/port replicator. It is top notch and entirely invaluable. Here at the officina I have a full keyboard, external flat panel, a second-old CRT, my trusty trackball, the local 'net, and an external HDD all plugged into the replicator. I just unpack the 'top from my bag in the AM and drop it onto the replicator. At night you hit the oversized eject button and be gone. Very well implemented.
I highly recommend you invest in one if this new prize is to serve as a desktop replacement.
That's a strike against the macs: no docking station/replicators!
Good point, I wish we had that.
The new replicators even let you plug in a PCI Express video card that's for desktops into them (i.e. you can run any vid card in a T60 that you can run in a desktop).
If you can afford it, fill it up! I have definitely been RAM limited at times in Photoshop with 1 Gig (on both my laptop and desktop).
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My guess is "yes" but I don't have anything to back that up (without doing some Googling). Page files are used by the OS even when you're not at maximum capacity. If you start serious memory swapping because you're out of physical memory, then something is usually wrong (or you have way too many applications open).
I'm sorry for all the mac hate, it's just that I saw another one of those I'm a mac and I'm a pc commercials, and I swear after being in a room with that mac guy for about 5 minutes I'd punch him in the face. This isn't 1969, shave your face and cut your hair.
The more RAM the better, if you run out of RAM the computer creates space on the hard drive to use as RAM which is slower than if you have RAM. If you don't get the extra RAM a faster HD helps if you get both then better.
idiocy. macs are fashionable and sleek looking. the end. any company that is as stupid and stubborn to stick with an inferior interface to the product (via the mouse) out of pride or fashion...
is a loser in my book.
id rather buy an american car over a honda then get a mac.
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Um, Athos... Stop running around in circles and look around. I know a few Mac people that have more than a simple one button mouse attached. You do know that multiple button mice work too, right? And that editing pads can also be attached? And more.
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" - Wayne Gretzky