On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 11:56 +0100, john lewis wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2009 09:16:45 +0100 > "Chris. Aubrey-Smith" <cas...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > As we discussed, I've bought a couple of excellent IBM ThinkPads from > > Sterling XS and I've paid considerably less than £300. > > I'll second that, 2nd hand TPs can be a good buy, not so sure about the > more recent ones but older TPs are robust and well made and some are > even reasonably light weight.
The stinkpad I had at work was well built, esp the metal screen hinges, but I did get through about 4 HDDs in it and had the battery replaced several times. I bought myself an HP laptop and it's been excellent so far, multicore thing that allows hardware virtualisation. plenty of spec to choose from. Arrived within a few days of ordering online. Rob
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