Subj : Re: Candygram For Mister Chryso! To : alt.tv.farscape From : weirdwolf Date : Wed Sep 28 2005 02:10:46 From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape "Ms T" wrote in news:wZl_e.55333$ct5.12046@fed1read04: > 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! ;) > I know that feeling, I was helping my next door neighbour by setting up her new laptop a couple of days ago. I've never used one before and can't believe how nifty they are. Ted -- Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to hide the bodies .