Buying a laptop
Since I'll be leaving IBM soon, I'm going to have to return my work laptop. Which will leave me laptop-less, and since I "need" a laptop for school, I've been doing some research in buying a new one.
For a while, I was seriously considering an Apple iBook, but then once the announcement came out that they would be switching to Intel chips, I was warned to stay away from them until the ones with the new chips came out.
So I decided to buy an IBM Thinkpad (T42). With my employee discount, amazingly it's about the same price as a similarly equipped Dell Inspiron laptop. I considered the Dell for a moment, since it was about $100 cheaper, but then the T42 reviews online generally seem better than the 600m ones.
Isn't it interesting that an IBM employee was considering buying an Apple AND a Dell?
posted by chongsun @ 10:26 PM
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2 Comments:
haha...i would agree on the apple assessment. T42 is a good buy...and much much more reliable than Dells. I've managed to spread the "thinkpad" gospel to many of my friends :). Make sure you get an SXGA monitor!
Heh, sorry man, but I got whatever I could afford, so it's just XGA.
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