<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:lucida console, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Thanks Colin. Likewise. I rate Thinkpads from personal experience. </span><span style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">Years ago a</span><span style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">s a 'mobile' worker & railway hostage/commuter</span><span><font size="3"> I inveigled a company supplied Thinkpad 240 which was a superb balance of weight & function. That was followed by various makes/marques all of which were </font>adequate<font size="3"> and a lot heavier and all gave me periodic back pain. Much later I bought and still have a T41, T60 and X41 ...maybe I should get some counselling? Although I did have a Dell Latitude D400 at one point. And I remember all supplied
by </font></span><a href="http://www.tier1online.com/" style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; ">http://www.tier1online.com/</a><font size="3"> with the Dell and X41 from their £99 specials (+ add new battery).</font></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span><br></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 15px; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal; "><span>P</span></div><div style="font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; "><br></div> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; "> <div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif; "> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2"
face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Colin McCarthy <binarysignal@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Paul Lawrence <paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com>; Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <kent@mailman.lug.org.uk> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 18 September 2012, 22:03<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Klug-general] Fw: Lenovo x61 deal ...<br> </font> </div> <br><div id="yiv1023364878">I have an X60 and it rocks. The X61 solves it's warm palm rest issue when Wifi is on (on the X60 the module is under the palm rest and gets toasty)<div><br></div><div>I would highly recommend Thinkpads, especially the classic IBM ones :)</div>
<div><br></div><div><br><div class="yiv1023364878gmail_quote">On 18 September 2012 12:12, Paul Lawrence <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com">paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="yiv1023364878gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'lucida console', sans-serif; "><div><span>Thanks, Karl & Dan. Do you know...? after I'd sent the email I thought ....was there a PSU? Doh!</span></div>
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<span>Anyway. Keep struggling ...</span></div><span class="yiv1023364878HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div style="font-style:normal;font-size:15px;background-color:transparent;"><span><br>
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<div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> ----- Forwarded Message -----<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Karl Buckland <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:buckland.karl@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:buckland.karl@gmail.com">buckland.karl@gmail.com</a>><br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold;">To:</span></b> Paul Lawrence <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com">paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com</a>>; Kent Linux User Group - General Topics <<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk" target="_blank" href="mailto:kent@mailman.lug.org.uk">kent@mailman.lug.org.uk</a>> <br>
<b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, 18 September 2012, 9:03<br> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Klug-general] Lenovo x61 deal ...<br> </font> </div> <br>As Dan says - no power brick. I would also factor in having to buy a<br>
new
battery. Still - nice find.<br><br>Karl<br><br><br>On 18 September 2012 08:49, Paul Lawrence<br><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com">paul.z.lawrence@btinternet.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>
><br>> Looks like a pretty good deal (from <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://hotdeals.com/">hotdeals.com</a>) .....<br>><br>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.schtrade.co.uk/brands/Lenovo.html?page=12&sort=featured">http://www.schtrade.co.uk/brands/Lenovo.html?page=12&sort=featured</a><br>
><br>> no OS and according to<br>> <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?filter=location&location=forum-board%3AX_Series_Thinkpads&q=X61+ssd">http://forums.lenovo.com/t5/forums/searchpage/tab/message?filter=location&location=forum-board%3AX_Series_Thinkpads&q=X61+ssd</a><br>
> upgrade to SSD is possible ....<br>><br>> I use an old x41 with Ubuntu 12.04 every day and the x61
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