[ltp] TP ruggedness (Was: About to buy a s/h X200....)

[Robert Tomsick]

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On Tue, 31 Jan 2012, Dick Summerfield wrote:

> At 00:54 31/01/2012, you wrote:
>> ...there was the T42 on the floor, resting half-open on the front edges 
>> of the screen and keyboard ... I picked it up from the floor, set it 
>> upright and swiped a finger over the trackpad.  Up came her email 
>> client and immediately began downloading 9 weeks of email ...
>
> Helen, What a great story! Thanks for that. It's made me feel a whole 
> better :-). I shall still be careful with my T43, of course, but your 
> story will stay at the back of my mind. Like many others you mention 
> preference for the T60. I think maybe I'd better shake my piggy-bank to 
> see if I can start looking round for a used T60...
>
> All the best to your mother, by the way. May she enjoy many more years 
> using her T42 :-) !

I didn't mean to suggest that the T40 series ThinkPads were all fated to 
die with GPU failure -- I've got a couple T40-series myself and have had 
no bad luck yet -- just that you should be aware of the possibility.

The T60s really are fine machines though, and they're a great affordable 
upgrade from a T4x.  There are tons on eBay of late due to corporate fleet 
upgrades, though obviously all the usual warnings apply there.

IBM also has had some on their "certified used" section of their site, 
though the prices there tend to range from reasonable to ridiculous 
seemingly randomly.

-Rob
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