Posts by dcranford

well The R50p I have is a PM 1.7 as well So I would think the noise would be about the same versus the 8600 PM 1.7 ANother quickie, hows the trackpoint on the XPS? I am a big trackpoint user, is it stiff and feels good? Is the...

I see the performance difference, I just want to know how much louder it is going to be, if at all....is there a place that measures the ambient noise of the two laptops, is the XPS/9100 loud?

anyone agree with the previous poster?

So is that fairly quiet as in you cant hardly hear it? At idle are the fans running? when stressing the CPU would you say the fans get louder than a normal desktop??

Ok, so about 1/2 battry life, which is fine because I dont use the laptop too much in a setting where I wouldnt have power available. How about noise? My R50p is quite as a kitten, you would never even know it was on, is the XPS quiet or...

Sorry to reply to my own thread, but will the CPU be that much more powerful?

Hi guys I have an IBM Thinkpad R50p that I just got, The way that I run it, full brightness, wireless, and 100%CPU on batteries it seems to last about 3 1/2 to 4 hours. This is a 1.7 Pentium M with 512 MB Ram I am trying to...

Bluejay This R50p rocks, I dont do much gaming but do a lot of compiling, programming and research on it. I must say im quite impressed!!

I contacted IBM-SERV this morning and they said that I should reset factory settings, however im not at home. I just talked with bill over at thinkpads.com and he seems to think it might actually be a bad battery, Make sense?

Ok, when the laptop is powered on and charging I see the battery light on. I do not see any lights when plugged in and machine is off. However it seems to charge fine when turned on. So are there supposed to be any lights showing...