Hello,
My Compaq CQ57 sadly gave up the ghost :-[ (I accidently dropped causing damage to the screen) so I'm on the market for something a little bit more durable and ultimately more compatible with eCS.
I quite like the look of the new Lenovo ThinkPad X131e. It shares the same WiFi chipset (it has a Centrino Wireless N 2230) as the other recent ThinkPad models so hopefully if/when WiFi gets sorted out it will work. Crucially, the BIOS lets users USB 3.0 ports act as USB 2.0 ports as well.
I would like to have 8GB of RAM mainly for the benefit of Linux but I was wondering if this would cause any issues with eCS?
Less importantly, I know that eCS can use up to 4GB only but is there any long-term plan to support PAE?
Cheers,
Dan
Hi Dan
I have a Thinkpad L420 with 6GB of RAM and eComStation 2.1 boots fine. One 4GB and one 2GB SO-DIMM DDR3 memory on it.
Sadly, there is not yet a driver for the wireless NIC (Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205) that this machine has.
The rest is fine, of course bluetooth, finger-reading and webcam are not working.
Hi MartÃn,
Thank you for the information. Hopefully there will be network drivers at some point, I can live without bluetooth and the webcam.
Cheers,
Dan