Re: Purchasing a laptop::Anyone fully satisfied with theirs?
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, esoR ocsirF wrote:
>I hope this is not to far off topic. I am purchasing a new laptop for
>the Science Journal at my school. I was hoping that I could get some
>feed back on fairly recent laptops that are around $3000 and *fully*
>functional under debian. I was hoping for something like the following;
>
>~14 inch 1024x768 (at least) 24 bit color
>Built in:
> ethernet
> cdrom
> floppy
> Sound
>Track point
>
>>= 6gig HD
>
>128 Mb ram
>fastest processor for the money.
I have a Thinkpad 600E (last year's model). It does 1024x768x24bpp (I run it
in 16bpp for speed), Celeron 400, 64M of RAM (I upgraded it to 192M), and 10G
IDE drive. It has floppy and CD-ROM drive (if you want them both at once
then one must be externally attached), trackpoint, sound, IRDA, and USB.
It does not have built in Ethernet, and it cost me $3400 last year ($200 of
which was for RAM). Now it would be cheaper.
Also this is the flagship Thinkpad, the 390 series is cheaper (and has both
CD-ROM and floppy built in). But the 390 weighs >3Kg (the 600 weighs 2.5Kg).
Currently my trackpoint has broken and I haven't had a chance to get it
repaired. But as that's the only hardware failure in 2 years of using
Thinkpads for >10 hours a day every day I think that's not so bad really. It
remains to be seen how cooperative IBM are when it comes to warantee repairs.
I will not surrender my hard drive to any technician. Also I lack an
official IBM receipt (purchased from Auction).
I expect that IBM will provide appropriate warantee support, it should just
be an issue of how much time I have to spend argueing about it.
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