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On Sun, 5 Oct 1997, Kendall Don Chenoweth wrote: > I am considoring getting a thinkpad 38x. Does anybody have one or have > heard of anything about this model? > > I am going to be running linux, so I want a machine with lots of RAM, a The 380 features a Neomagic chip. As the manufacturer does not care about Linux (have a look at their web page...) and does not release any specifications (as to this question they even don't answer email...) you have to buy the Accelerated X-server by Xinside. It's about 100 US$ more than the desktop version, with less functionality (that is, if you use a docking station with a desktop graphics card you can't use the Xinside server unless you also buy the desktop version.) In some cases you will be able to run XFree with 16 colors but that isn't very useful if you use applications such as xdvi. If there is an alternative, I certainly would never buy a machine with this chip. (I have an HP Omnibook running Linux, the machine has this chip, I bought the X-server...) Regards Christoph Eyrich eyrich@zedat.fu-berlin.de