Subj : Re: Candygram For Mister Chryso!
To   : alt.tv.farscape
From : Ms T
Date : Tue Sep 27 2005 19:18:05

From Newsgroup: alt.tv.farscape

In reply to weirdwolf's post:
> "Ms T" wrote:
>> 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 neighbor 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

I also have a HandSpring Visor Deluxe (also compliments of yet another boss) 
that once had a wireless "modem" module. I functioned QUITE happily with 
that device (still have the device, not the modem-sadly) for so long! When I 
finally had to give up the module that aided in my wireless 
communications.., well, I can safely say that life has just not been the 
same..., :(

> Stare too long into the abyss and the abyss looks like a nifty place to
> hide the bodies

^^ I laugh out loud every time I read your sig!

-- 
Ms T
ever changing calm

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