In message <Pine.NEB.4.51.0303132212540.9545@chylonia.3miasto.net>, Wojciech Pu
char writes:
>> seebs@plethora.net (Peter Seebach) writes:
>> > I am absolutely and totally in love with my ThinkPad A31p.  It's got lots 
>of
>> > built-in peripherals, but the only one which doesn't work is the winmodem.
>> > Firewire works, ethernet works, WiFi works... It's a NICE machine.
>>
>> In general, I'm a big ThinkPad fan. They're never a lick of trouble.
>>
>i read specs, browsed google etc.
>
>looks really great, only price is not fun.
>
>but i will buy even such expensive thing but thing that works, instead of
>cheap wincrap(TM).
>
>thanks for info. You are 5-th person recommending me thinkpad...
>

I'm on my 4th Thinkpad, and I agree that they're excellent.  There are 
a few quirks, though.  I can't get my T21 to display simultaneously on 
the LCD and an external monitor.  I generally have to 'ifconfig down'
network connections.  Note the APM_DISABLE_INTERRUPTS option in 
apm(4), though it's now the default.  And there's some problem with the 
sound card driver for the T21 that's probably ACPI-related; as a 
result, I have to exclude the sound driver from my configuration.

And yes, when I get my next laptop, I'll get another Thinkpad.  I'd 
really like a T40 -- excellent battery life, excellent 802.11 a/b, and 
a 10/100/1000 built-in Ethernet.  I'll ignore the winmodem...


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)