Re: Advise for buying a Refurbished machine

2009-07-10 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, 2) please advice me If I buy this machine is that a wise decision or refurbished machines are of high risk ? You have to ponder the fact that notebook are always fragile machines: - they are moved around often, so more subject to miss handeling (a notebook is more likely to fall from

Re: Advise for buying a Refurbished machine

2009-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I need an advice from FreeBSD users. I would like to buy a refurbished notebook from IBM. Model IBM T60I heard T60 series are excellent ? i heard too. but my T23 is :) Please see this URL and apecifications of the notebook

Re: Advise for buying a Refurbished machine

2009-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My loader.conf includes a few thinkpad-specific bits, like: # Intel wireless WiFi Link 4965AGN driver options. legal.intel_iwn.license_ack=1 if_iwn_load=YES # Autoloaded modules. acpi_ibm_load=YES snd_hda_load=YES i needed only last 2 lines on my T31. Anyway acpi_ibm is really useful,

Re: Advise for buying a Refurbished machine

2009-07-10 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You have to ponder the fact that notebook are always fragile machines: - they are moved around often, so more subject to miss handeling (a notebook is more likely to fall from your lap than a desktop is likely to fall from your desk) - they are compact, less ventilation, more subject to over

Re: Advise for buying a Refurbished machine

2009-07-10 Thread Charlie Kester
On Fri 10 Jul 2009 at 07:10:20 PDT Wojciech Puchar wrote: You have to ponder the fact that notebook are always fragile machines: - they are moved around often, so more subject to miss handeling (a notebook is more likely to fall from your lap than a desktop is likely to fall from your desk) -

Advise for buying a Refurbished machine

2009-07-09 Thread dhaneshk k
Fellow BSDians, I need an advice from FreeBSD users. I would like to buy a refurbished notebook from IBM. Model IBM T60I heard T60 series are excellent ? Please see this URL and apecifications of the notebook

Re: Advise for buying a Refurbished machine

2009-07-09 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:59:43 +, dhaneshk k dhanes...@hotmail.com wrote: Fellow BSDians, I need an advice from FreeBSD users. I would like to buy a refurbished notebook from IBM. Model IBM T60I heard T60 series are excellent ? I'm using FreeBSD/GNOME as my main environment on a

Re: Advise for buying a Refurbished machine

2009-07-09 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, you must cosinder only one thing. I have seen some of them with horizontal lines in their LCD. I could not find out the real cause if it. Just check it before you get it. I think, you should get a good deal as those machines are robust. Erich On 10 July 2009 pm 12:59:43 dhaneshk k wrote: