Re: Please advise me...

[Martin Fluch]

That's true, maybe I have then choosen the worng words. More what I wanted 
to say is, that the value the ThinkPads had to me was never decreasing 
much. They are good working tools and they stay it. Battery lifetime 
usually sucks at some point, but that is more or less all.

On the other hand, bought my TP 600 for about 550 euro, sold my TP 770 for 
430 euro, used the TP 600 for about two years, sold it for 250 euro (ok, 
that is about -25%/year), got the TP T20 for 390 euro (so I invested about 
140 euro after two years of using it and got an upgrade of factor 2 in 
processing power). In this sense the option IBM is comparable cheap if one 
doesn't wantto stay at the bleeding edge. Since IBM ThinkPads are 
mechanical very trustworthy machines one doesn't take big risk buying them 
used nore is the risk big, that after a few years one canot sell them 
anymore. In this sense they are for me investments (in a way). And plain 
relyable working toosl...

- Martin
On Sat, 12 Jun 2004, Patrick Lane wrote:
Since when is a personal computer a good investment that holds it's
value? Computers are like cars, the day you buy it, it drops in value
20%!!! Now, IBM's might keep value RELATIVELY better than OTHER laptops,
but it hardly makes them a "good investment" that "keeps it's value".
--Patrick

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