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Finally came in yesterday. Ordered it off eBay for $518. Sure a spiffy new laptop would be nice, but I don't have $2,000 to blow on one.
It's an IBM ThinkPad 600E with a PII 366MHz processor and 128MB RAM with a 6 GB harddrive. A DVD drive which was the main appeal so I could watch movies. With Windows 98. That I'm gonna have to change when I go home and put XP Pro on it instead along with buying a bigger harddrive.
Now all I need to do is get my phone service activated and an ISP.
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Five hundred bucks? That's quite a lot for a machine whose specifications were top dog four years ago. /methinks you've been ripped off...
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At least he didn't spend around $3200 for a laptop like I did painted Martian Red with a desktop Pentium 4 2.4Ghz in it.
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Seriously, Macs tend to age a lot better than the competition. And a two-year-old iBook with DVD can easily go for $500 on eBay...
Oh, well. I can certainly sympathize with the need for a laptop. The mobility is EXTREMELY useful once you get used to remembering that you can actually CARRY YOUR COMPUTER WITH YOU. (I've occasionally forgotten that I don't always have to sit at my desk.)
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thinkpads always go for above average prices, due to the fact that they are very well made and use above average components. for a 366 thinkpad with a dvd, i think he did well. however, for twice the money he could have had this. that's what i'm saving up for. it requires an external dvd (bought separately). when i get it, i'm going to get a firewire pcmcia card and a firewire dvd player.
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Laptops are notioriously hard to upgrade. They lack any sort of slots, and the memory is often soldered onto the motherboard.
You could get a new hard drive, but it will probably have to be a 2.5 inch one, rather than the cheaper 3.5 inch ones.
And will XP run on a machine with that spec?
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I spend a lot of my time commuting by train, so I can get a lot of work done on my little white iBook. I can use it all over the house as well, and even have a wireless internet connection so I can visit Flare while sitting on the back deck. I haven't used a regular desktop for any serious work for about 3 years.
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*pfoooey* iBook? yuck! all joking aside, i was considering getting an iBook, but then i saw that little Fujitsu LifeBook. the touchscreen is what cinched the deal for me.
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I would like a state-of-the-art or semi-state-of-the-art laptop myself. However, I can never have one because I have this odd quirk of wanting it to be completely clean. I want no OS, no bundled software, just the driver & hardware-specific software disks & I'll install Win98 & airthang else meself, thanks.
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there are custom laptops that come non-bundled. i can't remember where they are off the top of my head, though. its not that big of a deal just to format the drive and throw away any CD's, you know.
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that's what i'm saving up for. it requires an external dvd (bought separately). when i get it, i'm going to get a firewire pcmcia card and a firewire dvd player.
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