I also have had horrible problems with, as I call them, stinkpads :P Chris
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andrew Baudouin Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2005 3:17 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Thinkpads rock. I've had the most horrible luck with Thinkpads, both at LSU (when I worked with Chris) and since then. HD's dying, screens going out, horrible battery life issues, thin ribbon cables ripping when trying to do maintenance, keyboards breaking, etc. Laptops in general are a pain in my rear. On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 15:05:20 -0600, Will Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Heh, I've got a Thinkpad I that works like a charm. It's 810MB drive blew > it's fuse, but a piece of wire and solder fixed that. My current PII based > thinkpad runs like a champ too and it's four or five years old. > > On Thursday 20 January 2005 02:57 pm, Andrew Baudouin wrote: > > Respond to your instant messages. > > > > Your Hs probably dying. That laptop is pushing 4 years old now, I > > remember when you got it. > > > > Those laptop HDs die frequently... I had a 20 gigger i had swapped out > > and i recently fired up the laptop and tried to install Ubuntu on it > > and the bizzle locked up. > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
