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Originally Posted by Carpetsmoker View Post
I've discovered the customer support is absolute and utter crap, so it's exit Lenovo for me.
I always bought used laptops from common people without any support, its a lot (sometimes 3x times) cheaper then buying a new one with support and warranty, I have bought 3 Dell laptops this way, but I also considered Lenovo/IBM.

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I looked at the Dell E6400, it looks like a good notebook, but with two points:
o Keyboard/pointing stick, reviews are a bit mixed, some say it's good, others say it's not so good ... This is important for me because I use the keyboard and pointing stick a lot, one of the reasons for getting a T61 was the keyboard ...
I have e6400 @ work, keyboard is very good, even better then my private Dell d630, touchpad is also better then at d630, but I do not use trackpoint(pointing stick) so I do not know if its better or not.

When I will have more time maybe I will try to put FreeBSD/OpenSolaris there, but currently XP SP3 is there.

I have also read @ MLs that peolpe had problems with e6400 (interrupts storms), also dunno about Intel driver and X4500 support, I would check that first.

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o Price, I don't know how you managed to get your Dell at that price vermaden, but the E6400 would go for about 1600-1800 EUR! (Payed about 1100EUR for the T61).
I bought all my laptops @ http://allegro.pl a Polish equivalent of http://ebay.com, when I was buying my D630 (cost 1800zl = $900) the dollar was prettty low compared to zloty (money in Poland), like 1zl = $2, now after the "big crysis" it (dollar) has gone very high to about 1zl = $3.5, but they are still pretty low here:
http://allegro.pl/item547957820.html
http://allegro.pl/item547957740.html

I would not buy e6400 now, maybe after a yer or so, when FreeBSD support will be better and the laptop will be cheaper.

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Another thing I might consider is a Toshiba Tecra M10 (http://explore.toshiba.com/laptops/tecra/M10), I haven't looked at reviews yet though ... (Battery life seems short).
I would not buy any other laptop then Dell Latitude or IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad, because:
1. keyboard layout (best one is dell, but IBM is pretty close)
2. batteries options (4cell (IBM), 6cell or 9cell base battery) + 3cell (IBM) and 6cell (Dell) ModularBay battery instead of DVDRW, I get 8+ hours @ FreeBSD @ Flxubox and about 7+ hours @ OpenSolaris with GNOME.
3. magnesuim case
4. quality

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1: To be fair, this was not Lenovo's fault, but the supplier, it might have been a production error, but more likely because of transport or usage, I also found out that the NB was already registered to someone else over 4 months ago (!!)
What is NB?
Tell me more about that registration.
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