You can't beat titanium
Sunday, January 22, 2006
This is my first post using my new laptop. My current contract with Reuters comes to an end in the next week and I must return the IBM ThinkPad T41 that I've grown accustomed to - and quite fond of - over the past year. What to get to replace it?
I have a Dell X1 Latitude, which is small and light and eminently portable but afer two years is rather slow, underpowered, and showing its age. Of course, of all people, I am not one to blame the poor thing for that. The thought of another Dell didn't inspire me, however, (note the clever 'Inspiron' allusion, there) and, although I was tempted to go for a cheap desktop and load it with Linux, I decided that the sensible option was a powerful laptop.
After all of ten minutes of research online I chose an IBM ThinkPad Z60m, navigated to Dabs.com, paid with my credit card, and waited. One day, in fact.
I got the version with the titanium cover, so it sits on my desk looking like a suitcase from a spy film that you suspect may contain a nuclear device. It is not a small laptop. It is not a laptop that I would be happy carrying on my lap. It does have a wide 15.4" screen, though. And it's quiet and it's ben well-behaved so far. I like it.
More tomorrow on the agonies of migrating from Outlook to Thunderbird.
I have a Dell X1 Latitude, which is small and light and eminently portable but afer two years is rather slow, underpowered, and showing its age. Of course, of all people, I am not one to blame the poor thing for that. The thought of another Dell didn't inspire me, however, (note the clever 'Inspiron' allusion, there) and, although I was tempted to go for a cheap desktop and load it with Linux, I decided that the sensible option was a powerful laptop.
After all of ten minutes of research online I chose an IBM ThinkPad Z60m, navigated to Dabs.com, paid with my credit card, and waited. One day, in fact.
I got the version with the titanium cover, so it sits on my desk looking like a suitcase from a spy film that you suspect may contain a nuclear device. It is not a small laptop. It is not a laptop that I would be happy carrying on my lap. It does have a wide 15.4" screen, though. And it's quiet and it's ben well-behaved so far. I like it.
More tomorrow on the agonies of migrating from Outlook to Thunderbird.
