On the other hand, bought my TP 600 for about 550 euro, sold my TP 770 for 430 euro, used the TP 600 for about two years, sold it for 250 euro (ok, that is about -25%/year), got the TP T20 for 390 euro (so I invested about 140 euro after two years of using it and got an upgrade of factor 2 in processing power). In this sense the option IBM is comparable cheap if one doesn't wantto stay at the bleeding edge. Since IBM ThinkPads are mechanical very trustworthy machines one doesn't take big risk buying them used nore is the risk big, that after a few years one canot sell them anymore. In this sense they are for me investments (in a way). And plain relyable working toosl...
- Martin On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Patrick Lane wrote:
Since when is a personal computer a good investment that holds it's value? Computers are like cars, the day you buy it, it drops in value 20%!!! Now, IBM's might keep value RELATIVELY better than OTHER laptops, but it hardly makes them a "good investment" that "keeps it's value". --Patrick