Re: [SPAM SUSPECT] [H] What do you think about this laptop...
Better than Lenovo-foo-young IMO. RIP Thinkpad. I don't know what MCE is vs. home, but I never suggest anything less than Pro since there is no security settings in Home. Bobby Heid wrote: I came across a Dell Inspiron 6000 deal last night and went with it. This is what I got: Pentium M 735 (1.7GHz) 512MB RAM (free upgrade from 256)) XP Media Center Edition 2005 DVD writer - Dual layer (free upgrade) 1 Firewire port 4 USB 2.0 ports An SD (and another type) card reader 15.4 widescreen (1280 X 800) Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal 6-cell battery 1 year mail-in warranty Before tax - $954 - $200MIR = $754. Not too bad a deal, I don't think. Bobby
Re: [SPAM SUSPECT] [H] What do you think about this laptop...
Before you kill the Thinkpad - how many of them were probably made by Lenovo or even smaller shops before? The thing that made Thinkpads good buys - personal or especially corporate - was the commitment to supporting the models for quite a while after release, and the confidence that model #xyz always had the same spec or chipset for the life of that model #. You could find bios/driver updates for a few years after models were introduced, often spanning Win version releases, very few if any other manuf's did that. On 2/16/06, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better than Lenovo-foo-young IMO. RIP Thinkpad. I don't know what MCE is vs. home, but I never suggest anything less than Pro since there is no security settings in Home. Bobby Heid wrote: I came across a Dell Inspiron 6000 deal last night and went with it. This is what I got: Pentium M 735 (1.7GHz) 512MB RAM (free upgrade from 256)) XP Media Center Edition 2005 DVD writer - Dual layer (free upgrade) 1 Firewire port 4 USB 2.0 ports An SD (and another type) card reader 15.4 widescreen (1280 X 800) Intel PRO/Wireless 2200 Internal 6-cell battery 1 year mail-in warranty Before tax - $954 - $200MIR = $754. Not too bad a deal, I don't think. Bobby -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [SPAM SUSPECT] [H] What do you think about this laptop...
Well made to IBM spec maybe, now it's Lenovo's baby. So I'd expect quality to drop while they ride on the brand name's success maximize profit w/o putting in new effort/$$$. As to IBM supporting, they certainly did not support at least one case I came across in the T something series(10, 20?) where the customer wanted to go form 95 to 98 or 9x to NT/2K (been ~7 years since) and there were no drivers or support. Laptops are a tough choice these days if you want your monies worth over the long haul. j m g wrote: Before you kill the Thinkpad - how many of them were probably made by Lenovo or even smaller shops before? The thing that made Thinkpads good buys - personal or especially corporate - was the commitment to supporting the models for quite a while after release, and the confidence that model #xyz always had the same spec or chipset for the life of that model #. You could find bios/driver updates for a few years after models were introduced, often spanning Win version releases, very few if any other manuf's did that. On 2/16/06, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better than Lenovo-foo-young IMO. RIP Thinkpad.
Re: [SPAM SUSPECT] [H] What do you think about this laptop...
Hmmm, my wife's 600X which predates the T series has XP running on it with no problems, XP picked everything up - built in modem, nic, video and sound, I don't believe I went to IBM's site for anything more than bios though. On 2/16/06, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well made to IBM spec maybe, now it's Lenovo's baby. So I'd expect quality to drop while they ride on the brand name's success maximize profit w/o putting in new effort/$$$. As to IBM supporting, they certainly did not support at least one case I came across in the T something series(10, 20?) where the customer wanted to go form 95 to 98 or 9x to NT/2K (been ~7 years since) and there were no drivers or support. Laptops are a tough choice these days if you want your monies worth over the long haul. j m g wrote: Before you kill the Thinkpad - how many of them were probably made by Lenovo or even smaller shops before? The thing that made Thinkpads good buys - personal or especially corporate - was the commitment to supporting the models for quite a while after release, and the confidence that model #xyz always had the same spec or chipset for the life of that model #. You could find bios/driver updates for a few years after models were introduced, often spanning Win version releases, very few if any other manuf's did that. On 2/16/06, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Better than Lenovo-foo-young IMO. RIP Thinkpad. -- -jmg -sapere aude
Re: [SPAM SUSPECT] [H] What do you think about this laptop...
It was certainly pre-XP. XP is good like that with basic generic support for most everything made before it. j m g wrote: Hmmm, my wife's 600X which predates the T series has XP running on it with no problems, XP picked everything up - built in modem, nic, video and sound, I don't believe I went to IBM's site for anything more than bios though. On 2/16/06, warpmedia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well made to IBM spec maybe, now it's Lenovo's baby. So I'd expect quality to drop while they ride on the brand name's success maximize profit w/o putting in new effort/$$$. As to IBM supporting, they certainly did not support at least one case I came across in the T something series(10, 20?) where the customer wanted to go form 95 to 98 or 9x to NT/2K (been ~7 years since) and there were no drivers or support.
[H] What do you think about this laptop...
http://www.buy.com/prod/Lenovo_Thinkpad_R51E_1_73GHz_512MB_40GB/q/loc/101/20 2001957.html I need to get my daughter a laptop for graduation (HS). I came across this yesterday. It is $699 after $75 rebate. Quick specs: 15 XGA TFTF screen Intel Pentium M 740 (1.73GHz) 512MB RAM (2GB max, 1 free slot) 533MHz FSB 6-Cell battery (approx 3.5 hour run time) CD-RW/DVD-ROM XP Professional 40GB HD (I think I saw somewhere is was 4200rpm, but I don't see it here) My daughter will be taking elementary education in college next year, so she does not need a high-end laptop. I am kind of troubled by the possible 4200rpm HD. An equivalently configured Dell Inspiron B130 will run about $870 after rebates ($720 with XP home). What do you all think about this laptop? Thanks, Bobby
