I'll agree with the thinkpad comment, but I'll caveat it by saying to
go with (I think) a T4x or newer; all T30's and many of the T2x's were
prone to DIMM slot failures.
Btw, if you do not mind the weight, the T6x's have a magnesium basket
around the BACK of the LCD (not many laptops have any protection for
the LCD backs...) which prevents breakage with the lid closed.
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On Jan 2, 2010, at 9:47 PM, "Greg Fiorentino" <[email protected]>
wrote:
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
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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
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