Problems? See this thread at archive.org.
This is my first Lenovo purchase and first notebook. Ordered on Monday, 11/26/07, shipped from Shanghai on Thursday 11/29/07, arrived in Ontario, CA on 11/29/07 and delivery is expected tomorrow, Monday 12/03/07. Amazing! Total cost (including tax and recycling fee) is $1,119.53.
7675CT CONFIGURED SYSTEM
42V8012 VBB MS WIN VISTA HOME BASIC
42X0367 SBB MSWINVISHOMB32 US ENGLISH
41W2059 VBB 1GB PC2-5300 667MHZ 2DIMM
42X0133 SBB KEYBOARD US ENGLISH
42X1459 SBB TRACKPOINT W FINGERPR.READ
42V9140 SBB 80GB HDD,5400RPM ATA 2.5"
62P6054 VBB INTEGR.BLUETOOTH PAN
42V8177 SBB INT.WIRE.WIFI/LINK4965AGN
41W1831 SBB 4CELL LI-ION BATTERY 2.6AH
41W1787 SBB CPK NORTH AMERICA
42X0202 SBB LANG.PACK_US ENGLISH
41C9337 LENOVO THINKPAD PROTECTION WITH THINKPLUS ONSITE REPAIR
- EXTENDED SERVICE AGREEMENT - 2 YEARS - ON-SITE
CAFEE06 RECYCLE FEE FOR PRODUCT WITH 4 TO 14 INCH DISPLAY
Have already purchased 2GB Lenovo-compatible Kingston memory, and a Hitachi 7K200 200GB 7200rpm hard drive replacement. I already have an external USB 2.0 CD burner.
I would appreciate comments/suggestions on what I "think" I want to do. I wish to run two Operating Systems, Ubuntu 7.10 Linux as my primary on-line OS (for web surfing and email) and XP Pro SP2 for off-line use (primarily running legacy applications). As my life has entered its second half-century, games, MP3 and video/DVD have no attraction for me.
Questions:
1. Should I consider two hard drives, one internal and one external and have each OS on a different drive? Or just partition the internal 7K200 for each OS and dual-boot? As I would like each OS to be lean, using a virtual machine seems to add unnecessary complexity and bloat.
2. I am planning on encrypting Ubuntu and hope the personal info on the Linux partition is safe, should I go on-line with XP. True?
3. It appears that nLite might be a good way to create a stripped-down XP. Are there better ways?
4. A lot of info/guides appear on this forum and my eyes are blurry from all the reading. Is Arkit3kt's GUIDE one of the better ones? Is there a simply way to handle all the drivers, hot-fixes and Lenovo X61 specific files?
Guess the fun begins tomorrow!
-
Personally, I believe that my guide is one of the simplest and easiest guides to follow for a clean windows xp installation/downgrade for ThinkPads. I've looked at others and I just was not satisfied as they all indicated special "moves" you had to make like installing UAA before the system Chipset, which I believe should not be the priority order. So in order to help everybody else, I created a guide without any special tricks, it's just a straight forward guide w/ pics for assistance. Although I optimized my guide using a T61 as opposed to an X61, the steps are still the same except with different drivers.
Here is the list of drivers you are looking for: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/document.do?lndocid=MIGR-67971
Good luck!
First-Time X61 Buyer + Questions
Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by rWAVEL, Dec 2, 2007.
