Hi,
Do others agree that Lenovo != IBM?
The team that was designing and developing the thinkpad series has been sold to Lenovo. Lenovo was already manufacturing the Thinkpad for IBM before Lenovo bought IBM Thinkpad Division. The 3000 V100 series is their move away from the R series (Value) to something which doesn't resemble the thinkpad line. You can see that in term of design it looks totally different from the Thinkpad models. Lenovo had decided that the 3000 series would be for more private/home users while the Thinkpad line (T, X) will be for corporate users and that the corporate models will have the "IBM" logo and the same design remains. For example, you can look how their X60 looks: just like T30, X31, T40 etc, only a bit slimmer, plus the damn wiindows keys, they modified the power connector (no more backward compatibility), but a simple look from a distant, and you know it's Thinkpad. In terms of service, nothing has been changed. IBM Israel repairs their machines, and IBM Service in Israel is WAY WAY better then anything else is period! I would definatly not recommend going with HP, as their service simply sucks big time (unless it's their precioud servers, which is served by a totally different unit).
I'm not a laptops expert but was considering to look at some Lenovo stuff based on the great Linux support by IBM laptops.
I would recommend (depends on your budget) to go with Thinkpad R50 or R60 series (or if you can afford youself - the T50 or T60 series or X60). You can save few thousand shekels with the competitors, but you WILL pay those shekels back when you'll need to either upgrade or fix this notebook. Been there over 4 times already. Thanks, Hetz -- Visit my blog (hebrew) for things that (sometimes) matter: http://wp.dad-answers.com ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
