Girish Venkatachalam wrote:
Hello friends,
Was wondering if IBM Thinkpad T61 can be a good buy if I wish to run
OpenBSD on it.
Any anecdotes?
Advice?
My friend is in US right now. So I could ask him to bring it for me.
Which is the best website to order from?
Thanks.
Have a nice day!
regards,
Girish
You should not pay more than $1000 including taxes and shipping for
ThinkPAD T61. The prices vary a lot from web-site to web-site, from
store to store and from one week to another. In my experience Lenovo
web-site was worthy of persistent checking especially in the light of
impending Christmas sales. Actually have you heard of Black Friday? This
is the first day of Christmas sales (right after the Thanks Giving
Holiday) when you can get killer deals if you know what are you doing.
This year Black Friday is 23 of November (I think).
The best web-site for computer parts in states is www.newegg.com but
they also sell laptops and complete PCs.
Geeks.com often have killer deals on older stuff.
I am definitely not the right person to answer your second question for
couple of reasons. Most of my computers are bought for $5-10 when
companies are trying to get a read of "old" equipment for one and they
are desktops. I put together my only new computer and I could of course
look at the hardware notes before building it. My only surviving laptop
is E390 ThinkPAD (Pentium II) happily running FreeBSD.
