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From: yvan volochine <yvan.sc@...>

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Subject: Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop

Date: Friday, September 2, 2011 - 12:55 pm

On 08/31/2011 08:47 AM, Atte André Jensen wrote:

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> My laptop was dropped, and if it's beyond repair, I need a new one
> quickly. I would appreciate a few (preferrably hands-on experiences or)
> advices to this end, here are a few thoughts:

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> I saw a secondhand ThinkPad X61s (dual-core 1.6Ghz, 3Gb ram, 12"
> display) from a well known online shop I trust and used many times
> (bought my current laptop there). There's 6 months warrenty, and my
> general impression with ThinkPads is that they have good build quality,
> it's the only laptop I would consider buying used. It has firewire so...

+1 for thinkpads.

after burning a T40 I got a secondhand x60 4 months ago and it's been
doing great (running arch as well).

I use it for dev work, music studio and gigs. never got any problems
with usb and fw soundcards.
it's sometimes a bit low on cpu but, for 200€ ... ;)

cheers,
_y
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[LAU] buying a new laptop, Atte André Jensen, (Wed Aug 31, 6:48 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Christian Einfeldt, (Tue Sep 6, 3:32 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, david, (Tue Sep 6, 5:09 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, jim, (Tue Sep 6, 3:44 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, andy baxter, (Fri Sep 2, 8:37 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Atte André Jensen, (Thu Sep 8, 8:19 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, andy baxter, (Thu Sep 8, 9:15 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Atte André Jensen, (Thu Sep 8, 9:40 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Atte André Jensen, (Sun Sep 11, 12:55 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Diego Simak, (Thu Sep 8, 10:50 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, andy baxter, (Thu Sep 8, 6:04 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Clemens Ladisch, (Fri Sep 9, 8:30 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Diego Simak, (Thu Sep 8, 8:41 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, david, (Fri Sep 9, 6:50 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Atte André Jensen, (Thu Sep 8, 4:13 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Diego Simak, (Thu Sep 8, 5:42 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, yvan volochine, (Fri Sep 2, 12:55 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Harry van Haaren, (Fri Sep 2, 1:08 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Jeremy Jongepier, (Fri Sep 2, 12:23 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Chris Cannam, (Mon Sep 5, 9:28 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Jeremy Jongepier, (Tue Sep 6, 10:01 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Chris Cannam, (Tue Sep 6, 10:05 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, rosea grammostola, (Fri Sep 2, 2:21 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Ken Restivo, (Sun Sep 4, 12:49 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Josh Lawrence, (Tue Sep 6, 6:58 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Joel Roth, (Sun Sep 4, 6:59 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Philipp Überbacher, (Mon Sep 5, 7:08 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, david, (Mon Sep 5, 9:11 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Philipp Überbacher, (Mon Sep 5, 9:25 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, david, (Mon Sep 5, 9:07 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, david, (Sun Sep 4, 1:12 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Ken Restivo, (Sat Sep 10, 8:18 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Hartmut Noack, (Wed Aug 31, 11:44 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Paul Remmers, (Wed Aug 31, 11:57 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, david, (Wed Aug 31, 7:09 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Jeremy Jongepier, (Fri Sep 2, 2:31 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Arnold Krille, (Wed Aug 31, 7:50 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, Atte André Jensen, (Wed Aug 31, 7:32 am)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, tee, (Fri Sep 2, 4:36 pm)

Re: [LAU] buying a new laptop, david, (Wed Aug 31, 5:51 pm)