Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 19:27:33 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@DCFinc.com> To: garycor@home.com (Gary T. Corcoran) Cc: chopra@runbox.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Purchasing a new laptop...advice? Message-ID: <200105290227.TAA03022@freeway.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <3B12C344.462F5164@home.com> from "Gary T. Corcoran" at "May 28, 1 05:29:40 pm"
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As I recall, Gary T. Corcoran wrote: > PC Mall (pcmall.com) sent me a flyer advertising the now low-end IBM > notebooks, where "low-end" is now the quite respectable 700MHz-800MHz > speeds for $1450 - $1600. The $1600 one is 800MHz, 20GB drive, 64MB > RAM, 14 inch (1024x768) screen, plus DVD! They also offer another > 128MB for about $100. Of course they also offer "better" ones for > more money, but that $1600 deal is rather tempting... :) > If you're going to be using it in North America anyway, why not buy > one built for North America? IBM refurbishes equipment that comes off lease, and sells it through a web site run by the financial arm. Wanna buy a 3705? No? How about a ThinkPad for $700? That's a bit more like it. Assuming you don't find the idea of pre-owned offensive... http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/CategoryDisplay?cntrfnbr=1&cgmenbr=1&cntry=840&lang=en_US&cgrfnbr=2047342 -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.com DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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