From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 23 14:33:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA24348 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 14:33:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA24338; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 14:32:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA04505; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:32:06 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id PAA19348; Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:32:05 -0600 Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 15:32:05 -0600 Message-Id: <199808232132.PAA19348@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Craig Johnston Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad 560E TFT -> $1200 In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > I figured some of you might be interested in this. The specs are > i166MMX / 16MB(80 max) / 2.1GB / 12.1 TFT @ 800x600x16 / 4 lbs, 1.2" thick, > basically full-sized keyboard, trackpoint (the red 'pencil eraser') pointing > device, SBPro compat sound, external floppy drive, IrDA port. Wow, that's cheap. > This isn't FreeBSD-specific but I wanted FreeBSD folks to get 'em. > It's really an incredible deal. (IBM just discontinued it recently.) > You probably couldn't buy just the screen much cheaper. It works > great for FreeBSD. They are indeed one of the nicest laptops around, and although they aren't state of the art anymore, I have yet to find a replacement box that is as nicely packages as the 560. (Although, the new 600 model might be nice... :) Recommended highly! (Owner of the older 133Mhz model) Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message