A former plugger is now in foreign lands, and wants a replacement for his venerable Thinkpad T30. He likes the Lenovo T60, but most of those on eBay are going for more than he can afford. Being stateside, I can buy and fix and test before sending to him. Once it is shipped, it will be difficult to maintain, so we want something robust. SATA and WIFI are required, something 2007 or newer needed so it has some life left. He will be running Ubuntu, probably 10.04 .
Any T60s available under $180 among you? More likely, do any of you have another quality brand of laptop which you can recommend for reliability and for Linux drivers? We are thinking HP if we can't afford a Thinkpad, but I have insufficient experience with their reliability. I've seen far too many failures with Dell to take a risk with those. Heck, many models of Thinkpads have flaws (some T30s, some T61s), but at least I know which ones to avoid, the Linux Thinkpad community shares lots of stories. Please don't think of this as an opportunity to unload a junker. This machine will be my friend's livelihood, and he will not earn the funds for replacement for a long time. We need data more than we need a particular machine. Keith -- Keith Lofstrom [email protected] Voice (503)-520-1993 KLIC --- Keith Lofstrom Integrated Circuits --- "Your Ideas in Silicon" Design Contracting in Bipolar and CMOS - Analog, Digital, and Scan ICs _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
