From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 00:00:30 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 1827 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Wednesday 01 July 2009 Number 1827 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Laptops : Peter L Allen" 2 Re: Laptops : Ed Durrant **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:27:32 +1000 (EST) From: "Peter L Allen" Subject: Laptops Looking at used units. Considering durability and possibly up to say 4 years old - Out of Acer, Toshiba, Dell, IBM - any to avoid - traps to watch for. If I was thinking maybe IBM Thinkpad T42 - is that sane? Regards, allenpl -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:57:30 +1000 From: Ed Durrant Subject: Re: Laptops Peter L Allen wrote: > Looking at used units. > > Considering durability and possibly up to say 4 years old - > > Out of Acer, Toshiba, Dell, IBM - any to avoid - traps to watch for. > > If I was thinking maybe IBM Thinkpad T42 - is that sane? > > Regards, > > allenpl > > I had a T42 for a few years - great laptop apart from the fact that the ink rubbed off the most used keys on the keyboard! My personal experience with the T61 range is not good, even running Windoze my experience is that they are unreliable and slow. The T61 are Lenovo Thinkpads, the T42 (and in fact the T60) are IBM designed (if not necessarily built) Thinkpads. My personal opinion is to avoid Lenovo thinkpads. Other have had different experiences. If you want to go back further still, I also have an IBM Thinkpad T23, that everything simply works on. It's only USB 1.1 however and 100Mb/s LAN and is a bit heavier than the later models. -- Cheers/2 Ed Checkout my new (WIP) eComStation Australia Podcast - search for eComStation at iTunes or Podcastblaster dot com or add the RSS feed http://feeds2.feedburner dot com/eComStationAustralia to Thunderbird. Don't miss the tenth Warpstock Europe at Stralsund 12-15 November 2009 check out - http://www.warpstock.eu for details. -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG ===