Subj : Re: Candygram For Mister Chryso!
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Trouble
Date : Tue Sep 27 2005 10:38:00

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

Nick wrote:

> Trouble wrote:
>> "Nick" wrote:

>>> Are HP laptops any good?
 
>> I always bought Dell Toshiba or IBM when I could, but of those three
>> Dell is the only one that doesn't charge a premium for their gear.
 
> I have seen heard good things about people with Toshibas.

I retired my Toshiba Portege 7020 when I bought my Thinkpad A31, the 7020 
weighed only 3 lbs and had a decent 12.1 screen, it was 6-7 lbs with the 
docking station. Before that I had a Dell Latitude CPi, and before that 
another Toshiba Portege 3000 something which I gave to my dad.

At my last company we used to use an awful lot of Toshiba Sattelites, but 
even the brand new ones back then had the same look as models 4-5 years 
older and the sales guys would complain about their 'old' laptops not 
looking as new as the ones other people had at conferences. We bought two 
'sexier' Compaq laptops for loaning to them when they went to trade 
shows. Everybody was assigned the sattelite workhorses when they weren't 
travelling. I had an entirely IBM server room at the time, and when we 
started buying Thinkpads everybody shut up, and the Compaqs gathered 
dust, the Toshibas were later raffled off to employees who took them home 
for their kids.

> I just don't get the Thinkpad thing.  I see refurb P3 900mhz thinkpads
> for $400.  That seems really high to me for what you are getting.

Its just like Macs, Volkswagons and any other cult bit of tech, IBM built  
a rock solid piece of gear, and the engineering that went into it. I have 
never had a laptop quite as solid as my Thinkpad A31, and never had any 
piece of tech with as much available documentation, my Dell Lat CPi came 
close for ruggedness, but Dell and Toshiba's service manuals are not as 
good as IBM's.

Also a lot of the Thinkpads support Linux pretty well, wether that's from 
IBM developers working on Linux projects, or Linux geeks liking Thinkpads 
I dunno. The 300 series Thinkpad has its own following, its pretty wierd.

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"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise.
Seek what they sought."
--Basho

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