If this helps I bought a six year old IBM ThinkPad T20 back in 2006, it finally bit the dust this year 2010, it was very compatible with linux, was designed for Windows 2000 and ran Xubuntu 9.10 without issues until its end, it did have problems running Full Fat Ubuntu but to be honest its a ten year old laptop with low spec so what can you expect??
The only bug bear i had with it, as with any laptop, is the battery packed up before the laptop did so for a few years I was running it off the mains (so not much of a laptop really lol) but all laptops go like that eventually If I could buy another IBM ThinkPad i would without question it was sturdy and very well built. 10 years life is good innings for a laptop, and virtually unheard of these days. Rich On 28 March 2010 19:26, Stewart Robertson <stewar...@aliencamel.com> wrote: > I'm thinking I could do with a new laptop seeing as my six year old Dell > is starting to fall apart. I've been researching and I keep coming back > to the ThinkPad series but I've never actually played on one so I'm not > sure how I'll get along with it. I know it all comes down to personal > preference but I would appreciate your opinions. > > The ThinkPad T410 seems to fit the bill nicely but do you think you pay > a premium price and get a premium product or should I consider an > alternative? > > I prefer working on a desktop machine, which I will keep so I don't want > a desktop replacement laptop. I do not want a netbook or equivalent > under powered toy. I want a proper machine that I can use and will have > enough grunt to store/manipulate family photos/music/movies as well as > handling anything else I might throw at it. > > I also want: > > Linux compatibility; > Reasonable portability (13-14 inch screen); > Robustness/strength in case of knocks and bumps; > Comfortable keyboard; > Half decent amount of grunt but not power hungry and inefficient; > To be high spec enough to run Windows 7 easily as well as the next > couple of versions of Office. > > Any opinions gratefully received. > > Stewart > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >
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