Subj : Re: Candygram For Mister Chryso!
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Ms T
Date : Tue Sep 27 2005 19:03:07

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

In reply to Trouble's post:
> 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.

If you, or anyone has a laptop just gathering dust that is a P2 or 
better..., email me at cox dot net (vs none dot not) and let me know..., 
I'll pay the shipping! I have an old Toshiba Satellite (compliments of a 
former boss) with only has a P1 and a meger 32 mb ram (can't recall the disk 
drive size.., >1 GB me thinks)...,

That isn't my current communication device, but dren! I wanna laptop and 
can't yet afford one! Hep me Hep me! ;)

tia
Ms T

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