[plug] Advice needed for laptop

[Richard Meyer]

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>On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 12:17, Richard Meyer wrote:
>> Hi guys, I'm in the market for a decent laptop.

>I'm confused, you have an ibm.com email address and you are looking at a
>Toshiba? I would have thought that you would qualify for all manner of
>discounts, could trial equipment and would have access to internal
>testing reports...

Yes, well - I'm a contractor, and if you know IBM, that says lots.
Discounts, and deals are for employees, not contractors, though I suppose I
could get an employee to "front" for me. As for trial equipment, I'm sorry
- they're tighter than a duck's rear end, and as we know, that's
watertight, or they'd take on water and sink ;)

What I was looking for more than anything was "real world" recommendations
from people who'd spent their own money, and how they felt about their
purchases.

>But then, what do I know?

Explanation above - but they do have a mean line in refurbed T series
notebooks for staff (and contractors).

>PS. If all of the above is not correct, then perhaps you might want to
>consider either an iBook or a PowerBook, both have a mean feature-set
>and some really nice features. I've been eyeing off a 17" PowerBook in
>the store and I'm getting pretty antsy :-)

Um, no, not Apple, I had an example of their hypocracy in 1981, and they
will not get the opportunity to cheat me again - EVER.

RichardM