On Sat, Oct 04, 2003, Net Llama! wrote: >On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Chong Yu Meng wrote: >> I'm using a Thinkpad R40. Got it for SGD$1,600, which equates to >> slightly less than USD$1,000. Brand new. A few caveats though : >> >> I'm running very happily on RH9 + XFCE4 with 2 Apache web server > >yea, Thinkpads are very nice, and are virtually indestructable. My >employer gave me a T20 (somewhat older, PIII-700, 512MB RAM), and it is >also running RH9 + XFCE4.
Not only indestructible, but the IBM warranty service is hard to beat. In the U.S. I've called one day, had a box from DHL here the next day, and had the repaired laptop back from IBM two days later at no cost to me. The laptop I'm using myself is a four year old ThinkPad 600 running SuSE 8.2, and previously ran most of the Caldera versions from OpenLinux 2.3 on. Personally I like the IBM ``eraser'' mouse in the middle of the keys, and hate the touchpads found on most other laptops. On the Thinkpads I can do everything I need without taking my fingers far from the home keys, and the three mouse buttons are conveniently under my thumbs. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ ``One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.'' - Thomas Sowell _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
