On Saturday 12 February 2005 1:06 pm, adam@thebowery.co.uk wrote:
Given that the Nehemiah cpus aren't that fast I (personally) would be more tempted to look for a secondhand IBM T20/21/22/23 laptop, and it doesn't come with a nipple pointer,
Agreed, once you have owned a Thinkpad the only laptop you may ever want for is a powerbook (and even that is debateable)
The only thinkpad buying tip is avoid the i series units like the plague (they are Acer built back when Acer didn't so much build machines, they just put all the bits in a box and rattled it until it worked)
Acer are much better now and the i series was depreciated some time ago, honesty I doubt you will come across many on the 2nd hand market as most of them are probably broken by now. :-)
IBM have just announced that they are going to oursource Thinkpad's again, I hope it works out better this time.
I don't think it can be beaten on price but I think it will almost certainly be lacking a bit in overall quality.
Just checked my price lists and I can come nowhere near that price, even on the cheapest machine I offer, So yes it is cheap but as Adam suggests probably cheap as in nasty.