26 Sep
2007
26 Sep
'07
2:23 a.m.
At 5:06 PM -0700 9/25/07, David Griffith wrote:
$800 for a T40p or T42.
http://www.budcom.com/html/hi_end_laptops.html
A T41[p] is about close enough. The trick now is to
find one without
flakiness.
This one looks like it has been dropped or kicked repeatedly.
Looking at the
local place that sells used laptops I can see that for
what they want for a model this old, you'd almost be better off
buying a new laptop once you factor in wear and tear.
Just out of morbid curiosity, how much? I would have directed him to Computer Renaisance, but
corporate decided to
close it. Oh well. It was a good source of older but still good stuff.
I know of some local turnkey suppliers that might have turn-ins.
I've no idea if our local one is still around. I used to like them
years ago, and around '99 got a killer deal on a DEC PWS 433au (they
didn't really know what they had, what to do with it, or who would
buy it). I was also able to buy a PowerBook 540c for less than a new
screen for my 520c would have cost, probably around '98.
I'd just like to find a nice dirt cheap Thinkpad with a large screen
to run Linux or OpenBSD on. For me the screen is the most important
part.
Zane
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