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Roy Kim
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August 4, 2006

new laptop

If you're looking to buy a laptop, you cannot go wrong with the $750 sale on the IBM/Lenovo Stinkpad Z60t. A very good price on a very decent laptop from a very reputable company (you can't go wrong buying IBM Thinkpads). It comes with a three year systems part warranty, but I'd recommend buying one of those extended batteries from IBM - this thing will probably only have ~3 hours of battery life (if that).

Currently listening to: Talib Kweli - I Try (featuring Mary J. Blige)
Posted by roy on August 4, 2006 at 12:24 AM in Ramblings | 14 Comments

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tonylee
Comment posted on August 8th, 2006 at 08:10 AM
dell is awesome and so are vanilla frosteez
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hapy
Comment posted on August 4th, 2006 at 08:08 PM
did you buy one?
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roy
Comment posted on August 5th, 2006 at 05:03 AM
yep
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Comment posted on August 4th, 2006 at 06:52 AM
nobody writes in ~hb. can i have it? i intend to write but i want to own that username.
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roy
Comment posted on August 4th, 2006 at 10:42 AM
unfortunately ~hb is an active account (logged in quite recently) so i can't hand that account over to you. i would suggest signing up under a different username for now, then contacting the user to give up that username - tabulas allows you to change usernames without losing your account settings and data, so you can always switch to it.
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clavid87
Comment posted on August 4th, 2006 at 03:38 AM
woowwoow thank you so much.
i've been looking around for laptops for college but could only find dells that were cheap. but all my friends said dells are really bad.

anyways, do you know if this deal has an expiration date? i want to buy it, but i don't want to rush into it without getting some more feedback from other people. but if it expires soon, i guess i'll just buy it right away. thanks again!
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roy
Comment posted on August 4th, 2006 at 10:44 AM
STAY AWAY FROM DELL AT ALL COSTS.

i'm not sure if there's an expiration on this - i'm sure there is.

as for your battery question, i picked up the extra 7 cell as well as an extra 512MB RAM ($80 is not a bad deal for boosting from 512 to 1gb ram). thing cost me about $950, but given the high quality builds of thinkpads, i still think it's a very solid deal.
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clavid87
Comment posted on August 4th, 2006 at 03:41 AM
oh, and exactly, which extended battery are you talking about.. these 3 were listed wen you press customize:


Discounted with PC Purchase ThinkPad Advanced Ultrabay Battery [$107.00]
Discounted with PC Purchase ThinkPad Z60t Series 4 Cell Li-Ion Battery [$116.00]
Discounted with PC Purchase ThinkPad Z60t Series 7 Cell Li-Ion Battery [$143.00]
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Leedar
Comment posted on August 4th, 2006 at 01:02 AM
That certainly is no l33t gaming box. No sir.
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coutHelloWorld
Comment posted on August 5th, 2006 at 07:47 AM
People game on laptops?
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roy
Comment posted on August 4th, 2006 at 01:27 AM
that's what desktops are for ;)

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coutHelloWorld
Comment posted on August 5th, 2006 at 08:11 AM
If you care to take the risk of buying a refurbished <B>Gateway</B>, go for the <a href="http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2205205&CatId=1885"><B>Gateway GT5034</B></a>.

2GB Ram (512mb/ea x4), AMD 4200x2, PCI-E slots -- easily upgradable PSU and Graphic Card.

However this was priced before the price cuts on x2's after the Conroe release. You might be able to find a better deal yet building a custom.
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tonylee
Comment posted on August 4th, 2006 at 04:50 AM
you don't need hi-tech specs to play sc ;)

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ree
Comment posted on August 4th, 2006 at 12:51 AM
Thanks for posting this. My laptop broke down recently, so your timing is excellent!
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