[ltp] Recommended Thinkpad Model? $1500?

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

I'll second this.  My T21 came with 128M, and I immediately bought two
256M modules from Crucial, and have had no problems with them in over 3
years.

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 02:55, Eben King wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 18:45, Steven J. Owens wrote:
> > 
> > >      Factors that aren't as important:
> > > 
> > >      - Faster CPU and more RAM is always good, but I'm expecting this
> > >        to be a massive step up from my old Tecra, so I'm not too
> > >        stressed about getting the fastest CPU on the market.
> > 
> > I'd max out the budget for RAM before budgeting for the CPU, at least up
> > to 512M to 1G.  A fast CPU swaps to disk quicker than a slow CPU, but
> > still...
> 
> Buy your RAM from Crucial or Mushkin or wherever, but not from IBM.  IBM 
> really gouges for RAM.
> 
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