Posted on Tuesday, January 15 2008 @ 0:35 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Chinese PC maker Lenovo announced it will start shipping ThinkPad notebooks with SuSE Linux preinstalled. A typical laptop with Linux will be about $20 cheaper than the same laptop with Vista Home Premium.
The ThinkPad T61 with SLED 10 Service Pack 1 will come with the Intel Core 2 Duo T7250. The T61 laptop is powered by a 2.0GHz processor with an 800MHz FSB (front-side bus) and a 2MB Level 2 internal cache. For memory it comes with 1GB of DDR2 SDRAM (double data rate 2 synchronous dynamic RAM).
For graphics, the T61 will use an Intel GMA X3100 GM965 on the motherboard. This, in turn, displays images on a 14.1-inch WXGA (Wide XGA) screen. This widescreen has a maximum resolution of 1366 by 768 pixels.
On the storage side, the T61 uses an 80GB hard drive that speeds along at 5400 rpm. The PC also includes a combo CD-RW/DVD-ROM drive. For network connectivity, the system will use a built-in ThinkPad 11a/b/g Wi-Fi wireless minicard.
The starting price for this system will be $949, $20 less than the same laptop with Vista Home Premium.
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