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Date:      Fri, 28 Mar 2008 20:46:51 -0800
From:      "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com>
To:        "dhaneshk k" <dhaneshkk@hotmail.com>, "Wojciech Puchar" <wojtek@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl>, "Predrag Punosevac" <punosevac@math.arizona.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Reconditioned  Laptop advice
Message-ID:  <BMEDLGAENEKCJFGODFOCGEIJCFAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
In-Reply-To: <BAY127-W25A809DC9CFE9C36E3BF07B2F90@phx.gbl>

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of dhaneshk k
> Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 10:50 PM
> To: Wojciech Puchar; Predrag Punosevac
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> Subject: Reconditioned Laptop advice
> 
> 
> 
> 
> People   : I want to bu a laptop , for the time being I can't go 
> for a high end machine like hp8510b or like those 
> 
> But I found in internet , about IBM  Thinkpad T40   Reconditioned :
> 
> So I want  people's valuable advice on Reconditioned machine ;is 
> it safe to have this machine , I want to use FreeBSD on this 
> machine , what about the reliability of Reconditioned machines ?: 
> your advices may help me to take a good decision on my purchase.
> 

Do yourself a favor and as soon as you obtain your laptop, go out
and buy a brand new hard disk drive for it.  Not only will you
get a disk that is faster and larger, it will be much more reliable
than a ratty old hard drive that's probably been bumped and jostled
around a lot.

Ted



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