[ltp] Recommended Thinkpad Model? $1500?

[Ignacio Fernández Galván]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 00:45:43 -0500, Steven J. Owens  
<puffmail@darksleep.com> wrote:

>      My main priorities in shopping:
>
>      - at least a 15" screen, good viewing quality to reduce eye strain
>      - decent battery life
>      - good availability of docking stations (I want to get one for
>        home and one for work)
>      - I don't have a logical reason for it, but for some reason I
>        want to have built-in wireless.

I recently bought my first laptop, a ThinkPad R51 1829-R6G:
http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/quickPath.do?quickPathEntry=1829r6g

So far, I'm very happy with it, it works almost flawlessly with Mandrake  
10.1. It has 15" screen (1024x768), 3.5-4 hours from battery and wireless,  
but I don't know about the docking station. 512KB RAM, 1600Hz Centrino,  
60GB HD, ATI 7500... that's enough for my needs and maybe for yours, I got  
it for 1500€ (taxes included). It weights 3Kg and the temperature sits  
around 40 degrees Celsius or less when idle and reaches 65-70 when  
compiling a kernel.