[Klug-general] Hi All, greetings and a laptp enquiry

matt house matthouse at dsl.pipex.com
Tue Dec 19 11:12:49 GMT 2006


that sounds pretty cool actually, I used to have an old thinkpad X21 and I was
hoping to get something else by IBM. the build quality is second to none.

thanks for the recommendation

Quoting J D Freeman <klug at quixotic.org.uk>:
> 
> I can highly recommend anything by IBM, they are amazingly well built
> peices of kit, have full linux support, and work very nicely.
> 
> I have an IBM 240 laptop which you can get on ebay these days for about
> 50 quid. Its 10" x 8" x 1" and it fits perfectly in my handbag, so its
> definately portable. Its taken alot of abuse, including being stood on
> and cycled over. Well made laptop. Its not the most powerful machine on
> the planet tho, it has a 300Mhz Celeron, but its more than enough for
> vi, ssh, mozilla, openoffice, etc... I have even done Electronics CAD on
> it a couple of years ago when I was at ESA, but I wouldn't describe it
> as the most pleasurable experience.
> 
> HTH
> 
> Julia
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