[ltp] IBM to sell its PC business

Winsley von Spee linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 03 Dec 2004 21:55:59 +0100


Am Freitag, den 03.12.2004, 20:56 +0100 schrieb Meike Reichle:
> Hi all
> 
> Well I got aquainted with TPs only recently, and everything I own is a 
> little X20. But I always loved the Thinkpad's "oldschool" look 
> (reliability remains yet to be proven but I got no doubts it won't 
> dissapoint me). My only comfort is, that for me there's still a long 
> time until I'll run out of thinkpad models (considering that, as a 
> student, you can usually not afford them until they are at least ~5 
> years old. So there's still years to come until models like the X30 or 
> even X40 reach "my world" ;)
> 
> Anyway, it's sad. Guess we can only hope they are at least bought by 
> some other 'good guys'.
> 
> > That's exactly what I think. I would never change my tp for any other
> > laptop (exept it's black with three letters on it). And I have never
> > seen another laptop running linux like an tp. You can even turn the tp
> > light on and off from the console thats a very cool feature ;).
> 
> You can? How's that work?
> 
> Cheers,
> Meike

*gg. Guess I have an big affliction called quality aware or so.

Greetz