Hello everybody!
Well, there are a couple of motives to my drive :
- it's "green" (there are LCD pannels staying out there on shelves,
taking dust. Why through away an otherwise perfectly working laptop ?).
Even if I buy a new one, I could always use it as a backup if I have a
problem with the new one. (I hope you can boot a XP installed on the X31
on a X200t or X61t.)
- If I followed well this group, the keybord, there has been no model
newer than than the X31 with a better or even equivalent keyboard. You
can always plug your laptop on a bigger screen when you get to work, log
on a server to crunch numbers, but symbiosis with your input device is
paramount.
- I don't feel like buying a 2009 computer that still has modem port
(talking about the X200[t?] and VGA instead of DVI. Besides, I just had
a look at one this week : materials & finish really look cheap compared
to the X31.
- I don't feel like buying a computer which has more branding
surface/locations than the X31 (why didn't they just put Lenovo next to
Thinkpad. Why the hell don't they get a logo ("lenovo" in chineese,I
don't care, just make it small & pretty).
- I don't feel like buying a computer which does not replace the
impossibility of Thinklike with something else (retrolit keyboard,
phosphorescent stickers that charge on the LCD, etc.
- I like 4:3 ratio (not for display, for the volume/surface ratio in my
bag. Americans where so intelligent with the Lettre paper format : why
the hell let it go to make computers that match our European A4. Now
it's no longer paired in my bag (I buy US stationary on purpose).
- I am waiting for LED screens not to eat so much space on the sides.
"I could go on, but I think I made my point clear" ^TM :)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On
> Behalf Of [email protected]
> Sent: Saturday, November 21, 2009 7:12 PM
> To: 'Thinkpad Mailing List'
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] SXGA+ display on X31 mod in Paris, France ?
>
> On 21.11.2009 18:50, you, Adrian Belu wrote:
>
> > I am looking for someone who can do this mod (BIOS included) :
> >
> > http://www.51nb.com/viewthread-576766
>
> None of my business, of course, but does it make sense to go through
all
> that trouble for a machine as old as the X31?
>
> I had one from 2004 to 2006, it was nice, good quality. I gave it to
my
> niece when its replacement (X60s) came. Incidentally, I just heard it
> had failed.
>
> I personally wouldn't invest much money on enhancing a 5+ years old (=
> most likely out of warranty) machine.
>
> Cheers, Dominique
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