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Quoting Samuel Toogood <sam_toogood@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
2010/1/18 Rob Beard <rob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:Quoting Rhia Knowles <rhiadratech@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:Ahh, i was looking for something a bit newer then the T2x. I'm trying to replace a one of the 8375 clones that's hinges have completely gone, so something at least 1.4GHz processor, nice large screenres, maybe not SVGA+ but at least larger then not XGA, 256/512 MB Ram, and either easily exchangable HDD or one thats a decent size so i could partition into /, /home, and Windows for college apps. say 60GB. Budget of around £130.Have a look at www.tier1online.com They are a company who deal with ex-corporate, end of line and refurbished equipment. They also have an eBay store (do a search for Tier1Online). I bought the kids PS3 from them just before Christmas and got free next day delivery. Their communication wasn't brilliant (I put it down to it being Christmas) but I did get the PS3 next day (ordered about 4pm, received about 3pm next day). Doing a brief search, their cheapest ThinkPad seems to be around £170 so slightly over your budget but they do have other notebooks around the £130 mark, albeit current stock are things like Dell Latitude D600/D610 spec (I can recommend the Dell Latitude D610 by the way, I had one, had a lovely high res screen and Pentium M 1.8GHz CPU). If you follow this link, it should take you to their site and search for IBM machines: http://www.tier1online.com/Category/1/_pb/skip/0/page/40/sort/Price,Asc/filter/Manufacturer,IBM Rob+1 for tier1online. I bought a ThinkPad t41 from them a couple of years ago, with a 3 month guarantee. Just before the 3 months was up, it wouldn't charge any more, so I rang them up. Got straight through to someone real who said "Might be the charger, we'll send you a replacement, if that doesn't work, call us back". New charger arrived with 2 days, at no cost, and laptop started charging again. HTH Sam
That's good to know, touch wood the PS3 is fine (was brand new, damaged box stock) but it's good to know if I do have any problems (at least within 3 months) I can hopefully get some joy.
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