Patrick: I have to agree with Janina that the refurbished IBM's can be a good deal. I picked up an IBM refurb Thinkpad 600E for around $450 a year ago on ubid.com. One of the good things is you aren't putting a 3000 dollar laptop at risk when you have to travel. If you are forced to purchase locally, as I think you indicated, and you are in the USA, you can check out deals at http://www.dealnews.com and http://www.salescircular.com. Dealnews puts out a free daily newsletter that you can subscribe to or you can just visit their site. Salescircular also has a free newsletter but I am unsure of it's frequency. I can't tell you how speech accessible these sites are, as I use screen magnification. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 4:17 PM Subject: Laptops for less with serial ports > > > To: speakup at braille.uwo.ca > Cc: > Bcc: > Subject: Re: (no subject) > Reply-To: > In-Reply-To: <014401c297ba$aa514800$0201a8c0 at 6S4X011> > X-Operating-System: Linux cantata 2.4.16 > Patrick: > > You can still get DB9 serial ports on laptop computers. You can't > usually get them on the ultra-thin models, though. I am currently > looking myself, and a serial port is a must. I will most likely stick > with IBM and get a Thinkpad T30 this time around at around $2.6K. It has > a serial port > > If I were you, I'd seriously consider an IBM reconditioned Thinkpad. > There is a 3 month waranty on them--certainly long enough to find out if > any part is bad. For example, you can get a T22, with serial port, > modem, ethernet, two pcmcia, etc. for under $1K. See: > > http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=- 840&storeId=1&categoryId=2563444&langId=-1&dualCurrId=73 > > Careful. This url will almost certainly wrap. > PS: For the last two years I've bee4n running around with a Thinkpad t20 > that we paid $3,500 for. Now they're selling reconditioned for about > $700. Mine is still good. It's not broken at all. That's not the reason > I'm upgrading. And, I've been all over the planet with it. > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
