[BNM] Laptop recommendation

[Dan Eastwell]

Yeah, that was the problem with my Acer - imperfect though XP is, you
get hardware vendors who think they can play OS developer and
'improve' on native utilities. What you end up with is, of course,
incompatibilities with the OS, frequent crashes and useless hogging of
the processor.

On 2/4/08, Chris Billett <chris at chrisbillett.net> wrote:
>
> > What do you use instead? I'm assuming thinkvantage is the default
> > onboard wireless driver? Doesn't XP/Vista come with generic wireless
> > drivers?
>
> We have a lot of Thinkpads too, running Windows 2000. It is a nightmare,
> to say the least, getting wireless to play nice. As others have said, the
> rest of the hardware is pure gold (our only issues come with w2k drivers
> for newer hardware on T43/60/61 machines) but ThinkVantage should be
> purged as soon as you get your grubby mitts on the machine*. Hardware =
> good, software = bad. Go for a vanilla copy of XP on them and you're
> laughing.