Comments | jujulilianan: cheap but reliable laptops in sydney.

jujulilianan

cheap but reliable laptops in sydney.

May 25, 2007 14:32

so.. I'm helping a friend buy a laptop for study ( Read more... )

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jujulilianan May 25 2007, 06:32:29 UTC

yeah, IBM machines do look pretty solid.

I've been naysaying the whole refurbished thing so far, nbbut if I can get a good warranty on refurbished, that might be the way to go.

mrdeconstructor May 26 2007, 01:20:02 UTC

The old thinkpads looked as ugly as hell (to my eyes at least :)) but seemed to be virtually indestructable! I used to have to support a couple owned by academics who had to run some ugly ugly linux distro because they didn't want to use what all us other linux geeks were using.

Ah the good old days when hardware support for linux could mean rolling your own kernel :)

FYI- not the greatest,..but: tuathadanu June 1 2007, 00:05:18 UTC

Pearl M665SE Core Duo Notebook
With 120Gb HDD, 1GB of RAM and built-in webcam!
$1,097.00
(including GST)
+$24.00 shipping

http://www.zazz.com.au/index.php

only for today.