Re: Lenovo R61 Think Pad dead after fewer than five years

2013-11-08 Thread Steven Rosenberg
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Ken Heard kensli...@teksavvy.com wrote: Is it normal for any laptop to fail in fewer than five years, or is such a failure rate unique to Lenovo's laptops? My last laptop was a Lenovo, but not a Thinkpad. It died at just under three years of life. I was

Re: Lenovo R61 Think Pad dead after fewer than five years

2013-11-04 Thread ken
On 11/02/2013 02:53 PM Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In May 2008 I purchased new and started using a Lenovo R61 Think Pad. Originally I installed Lenny on it and subsequently upgraded it to Squeeze. Starting from 2013-01-01 various things started going wrong.

Re: Lenovo R61 Think Pad dead after fewer than five years

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2013-11-03 00:03, Celejar wrote: snip Is it normal for any laptop to fail in fewer than five years, or is such a failure rate unique to Lenovo's laptops? Any piece of electronics can fail, but I'm pretty sure that an R-series ThinkPad

Re: Lenovo R61 Think Pad dead after fewer than five years

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2013-11-03 07:01, Paul Cartwright wrote: On 11/02/2013 02:53 PM, Ken Heard wrote: Is it normal for any laptop to fail in fewer than five years, or is such a failure rate unique to Lenovo's laptops? not sure where you live, but static

Re: Lenovo R61 Think Pad dead after fewer than five years

2013-11-03 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 03 Nov 2013 09:32:36 -0500 Ken Heard kensli...@teksavvy.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2013-11-03 00:03, Celejar wrote: snip Is it normal for any laptop to fail in fewer than five years, or is such a failure rate unique to Lenovo's laptops?

Re: Lenovo R61 Think Pad dead after fewer than five years

2013-11-03 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 12:03:13AM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 14:53:46 -0400 Ken Heard kensli...@teksavvy.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In May 2008 I purchased new and started using a Lenovo R61 Think Pad. Originally I installed Lenny on it

Re: Lenovo R61 Think Pad dead after fewer than five years

2013-11-03 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2013-11-03 10:10, Paul Cartwright wrote: I just got a Galaxy Tab 10 a few weeks ago for our trip to New Orleans.. just got back:) it works well for a tablet, nicely compliments my Galaxy S III phone.. BUT I was frustrated because I can't do

Re: Lenovo R61 Think Pad dead after fewer than five years

2013-11-03 Thread Paul Cartwright
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/03/2013 03:10 PM, Ken Heard wrote: Yes the Samsung Galaxy tablet does have its limitations, stemming in part from the fact that Android is not really open source. I continue to use an email client (Icedove) instead of web based e-mail; so

Lenovo R61 Think Pad dead after fewer than five years

2013-11-02 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In May 2008 I purchased new and started using a Lenovo R61 Think Pad. Originally I installed Lenny on it and subsequently upgraded it to Squeeze. Starting from 2013-01-01 various things started going wrong. For example I began to get segmentation

Re: Lenovo R61 Think Pad dead after fewer than five years

2013-11-02 Thread Mr Smiley
Hi, e-bay is your friend, there are thousands of spares for IBM thinkpads :o) On 02/11/13 18:53, Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In May 2008 I purchased new and started using a Lenovo R61 Think Pad. Originally I installed Lenny on it and subsequently upgraded

Re: Lenovo R61 Think Pad dead after fewer than five years

2013-11-02 Thread Tom H
On Sat, Nov 2, 2013 at 6:53 PM, Ken Heard kensli...@teksavvy.com wrote: In May 2008 I purchased new and started using a Lenovo R61 Think Pad. Originally I installed Lenny on it and subsequently upgraded it to Squeeze. Starting from 2013-01-01 various things started going wrong. For

Re: Lenovo R61 Think Pad dead after fewer than five years

2013-11-02 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 14:53:46 -0400 Ken Heard kensli...@teksavvy.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In May 2008 I purchased new and started using a Lenovo R61 Think Pad. Originally I installed Lenny on it and subsequently upgraded it to Squeeze. Starting from