Lenovo (IBMs laptop partner/Thinkpad manufacturer) do produce the Thinkpads to a very high standard, IMHO these are the key features that make them stand out :
1) Keyboards - I would say second to none, as good as you can get on a laptop (having said that I recently got a Mac Book Pro and now I think that is perfection) 2) Components - good and generally speaking conservative in terms of "cutting edgeness" - making finding working solutions under Linux more likely 3) Build quality - sturdy, they are generally built to be used in business by people who are actually on the road (as opposed to the sub £450 bracket laptop which is more often than not designed for the coffee table) 4) Battery - never that great, however you can usually get a second battery and switch out the DVD drive IBM have a good record with supporting open source (and as mentioned in 2 above not being on the bleeding edge) They are expensive though and second hand would seem a better investment if you can get a good one, I recently sold mine for £500 (T61p 2.4Ghz Core2Duo with 4GB RAM and 160GB HDD, Graphics nVidia Quadro FX570M (1920x1200) - with Fedora 8) having originally cost £2K about 2 years ago Martin On 29 March 2010 09:59, Richard Forth <richard.fo...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 >> > > > _______________________________________________ > Peterboro mailing list > Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk > https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >
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