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Assuming the tester was thorough and your two systems don't have
significant hardware differences, it looks like you should be good.
Something to be wary of when a tester says wireless works is that they
often don't test the various encryption methods and assume it's working
completely. Sometimes it works unencrypted, but not using WEP, etc.<br>
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Intel video chipsets are better than ATI but still worse than NVIDIA.
An example would be that Compiz would work, but won't vsync ("tearing"
appears when images move horizontally). Another is that when a media
player like VLC uses overlay mode (hardware acceleration), the video
won't move with the window until you release it, and Compiz menu
shadows over the video will appear solid blue or black. Superficial but
annoying if you're trying to show the system off.<br>
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<big><br>
</big>Eric Weir wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Before buying the machine, I read this on the Thinkwiki site:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_7.04_%28Feisty_Fawn%29_on_a_ThinkPad_X40">http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_7.04_%28Feisty_Fawn%29_on_a_ThinkPad_X40</a>
This is from the executive summary:
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<pre wrap="">Ubuntu Linux 7.04 -and probably any modern distro- "just works"
out-of-the-box on this machine.
No manual configuration was required. Even network, wifi, xorg (with
3D acceleration), sound and suspend-to-ram were properly configured
and functional, all with opensource drivers only, at the end of the
default Ubuntu installation. I've no problem with fan noises either.
But there's still some room for fine tuning:
* To improve energy efficiency and battery life (8 cell bat gives
4h with default install, 6h after tuning
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_reduce_power_consumption"><http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_reduce_power_consumption></a>)
* To access some special features (like some Thinkpad special keys
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Default_meanings_of_special_keys"><http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Default_meanings_of_special_keys></a>)
* To better use resources (memory, CPU, power, ...)
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<pre wrap=""><!---->I believe the graphics is Intel Extreme Graphics 2. Does that get me out
of ATI issues?
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Eric Weir
Decatur, GA USA
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