From owner-freebsd-mobile Mon May 28 19:27:44 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from freeway.dcfinc.com (cx74889-a.phnx3.az.home.com [24.1.193.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9662237B423 for ; Mon, 28 May 2001 19:27:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freeway.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freeway.dcfinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA03022; Mon, 28 May 2001 19:27:34 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from chad) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <200105290227.TAA03022@freeway.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Purchasing a new laptop...advice? In-Reply-To: <3B12C344.462F5164@home.com> from "Gary T. Corcoran" at "May 28, 1 05:29:40 pm" To: garycor@home.com (Gary T. Corcoran) Date: Mon, 28 May 2001 19:27:33 -0700 (MST) Cc: chopra@runbox.com, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Reply-To: chad@DCFinc.com Organization: DCF, Inc. X-O/S: FreeBSD 2.2.8-STABLE X-Unexpected: The Spanish Inquisition X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL40 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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