Quoting charkee berekeke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
guys,
I've been on the market scouring for good laptops which can
fit my tight budget
but I'm still confounded with the variety of laptops available. I'm
sorely tempted to just get the cheap VPC-Viper ( villman ) or
X-mobile ( pc express ) but I'm not quite sure on the durability of
their laptops as compared to those of the known brands ( Thinkpads,
Asus,Acer,etc... ).
Does anybody have actual experience with these bargain
laptops? Do these laptops match the similar "spec'd" branded laptops
which cost much, much more?
I'm always on the move so I need a computer for web research,
playing mp3s and running engineering applications ( not the graphics
intensive ones ). 40k is the most
I can spend for a good laptop.
Please help.
You can go to HMR - get a cheap Thinkpad there for just above 30T (1GHz
Pentium
III-M, 256MB RAM). I think it comes with Bayanihan Linux 3.1 preloaded.
Definitely Linux-compatible. Upgradable too. You can always get the other
peripherals (such as mini-PCI wifi - you can get Thinkpad-compatible ones from
Ebay, or just buy an MSI wifi card for P1600 at PCCorner) later. And afaik,
Thinkpads from that generation were made with titanium-reinforced composite
(hence the legend of a thinkpad's durability).
Btw, this isn't a laptop mailing list :)
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