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== Review == | == Review == | ||
A midrange, quite slim, business laptop, released in 2000. It had quite a good mix of parts and a slim chassis. The choice of PC-100 SDRAM and dual RAM sockets, make for a good all-around laptop although the graphics chipset was quite on the low-end side. The lack of an ATI or NVIDIA graphics integration meant that 3D hardware rendering support was limited, especially at the native 1024x768 resolution. The system runs reasonably well Windows XP, if you really need it, but Windows 98 SE is the best choice, especially due to the good DOS sound emulation support. | A midrange, quite slim, business laptop, released in 2000. It had quite a good mix of parts and a slim chassis. The choice of PC-100 SDRAM and dual RAM sockets, make for a good all-around laptop although the graphics chipset was quite on the low-end side. The lack of an ATI or NVIDIA graphics integration meant that 3D hardware rendering support was limited, especially at the native 1024x768 resolution. The system runs reasonably well Windows XP, if you really need it, but Windows 98 SE is the best choice, especially due to the good DOS sound emulation support. | ||
Compared to the previous Thinkpad T21 series laptops the largest improvement comes from the slightly faster CPU. The graphics chipset is insufficiently improved. | |||
The graphics chipset is below average for such a great CPU. Running in 32bit colour is nearly impossible due to the 8MB of video ram and most games already used more than that amount when the laptop was released on the market. Unfortunately, the graphics chipset limitations will linger on upto the end of the T2x line, the T23 model still having the old S3 Graphics chipset. Also, the S3 Graphics chipset has serious limitations due to poor drivers so graphical glitches are quite common in 3D games, making quite a bad, although entirely true, experience of early 2000 low-end gaming. | The graphics chipset is below average for such a great CPU. Running in 32bit colour is nearly impossible due to the 8MB of video ram and most games already used more than that amount when the laptop was released on the market. Unfortunately, the graphics chipset limitations will linger on upto the end of the T2x line, the T23 model still having the old S3 Graphics chipset. Also, the S3 Graphics chipset has serious limitations due to poor drivers so graphical glitches are quite common in 3D games, making quite a bad, although entirely true, experience of early 2000 low-end gaming. | ||