I agree with Alex on the Thinkpad. The T series in particular are the Mercedes of the laptop world. All the hardware manuals are available online, and they are fairly simple to troubleshoot and repair. Lenovo support is very good, and there are lots of good diagnostic tools available. Anything from a T23 and newer is quite usable with XP or Linux.
Greg using a T40 with 2gb RAM and a 1.7 GHz Pentium M, XP Pro -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alex Chamberlain Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 11:53 AM To: Mercedes Discussion List Subject: Re: [MBZ] Need help selecting Windows laptop On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 7:15 PM, Mitch Haley <[email protected]> wrote: > > Are those $299 netbook things any good? I love the two netbooks in my house (Dell Vostro and Asus Eee) for web browsing. They are as fast as anything else with a lightweight Linux distro (Mint, Puppy, etc.). Forget about serious typing with those little keyboards, though. For the original poster (Dave W.), I'm going to take the contrarian view from everyone else here and suggest a refurbished IBM Thinkpad. Beautiful big screen, plenty fast enough, will probably come with XP Pro installed but they're very Linux-friendly so it shouldn't be a hassle at all to put Ubuntu on it if you want. Most importantly they are built like tanks and so are more likely than any new $300 laptop to survive repeated trips through the mail. Alex _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
