[ltp] Recommended Thinkpad Model? $1500?

[David Tansey]

I have to recommend the X40 if you like battery life and light weight.

It has treated me very well. 

If you don't spend much money on computers then 1500 probably won't cut
it. If you plan on making additions over the months on top of that then
you could still pull it off. 

I have the extended battery. I get 7 hours + when I am using it around
and about. ~5 hours when I am using it with higher brightness/with
wireless.

just my .02

-David

On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 08:07 +1300, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> 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.
> > 
> > -- 
> > The powers in charge keep us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor
> > with the cry of national emergency. Always there has been some terrible evil to
> > gobble us up if we did not furnish the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retro-
> > spect, these disasters seem never to have been quite real. -- Gen. D. MacArthur
>