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I still have a 9-cell battery and two AC adapters from my T42p outfit.

AC Adapters - $30 shipped in US

Battery - $50 shipped in US

The AC adapters are in like-new condition, as is the battery, which has somewhere around 8 cycles on it. I no longer own a ThinkPad to tell you exactly how many, but its not a lot.

Andrew

Wouldn't you want to hang onto one of the adapters as a spare for your future T2x?

I think I'll be Mac-only for some time. My next Windows machine will be a MacBook Pro.

Sorry to hear that. Love to have as many Thinkpad users as possible!!

BTW, I was just basing the comment off of your signature.

Yeah, I've got to update that. When a ThinkPad comes out that FULLY supports OSX, meaning when Apple sells the OS with support for non-Apple hardware, is when I'll buy another ThinkPad.

For now, the only thing I would use Windows for is to play games, and the MacBook Pro will run Windows as fast as any PC laptop will. Lately I'm too busy to play games anyway, and for my rare free gaming moments, I have enough Mac games to keep me busy.

judging from comments the (now suspended) craptacular had about the MBP asiafish will be back..

though i must admit having thought to get a MBP to see if is close to the quality on the ipod G5 i have..

Bill,

Those comments are the reason I have a 15" PowerBook instead of a MacBook Pro. The MacBook Pro has the performance, but the bugs need to be ironed out.

Apple just released a revised system board on the 15", and who knows whats inside the new 17", but either way, the PowerBooks are fast enough with the applications I use today (Office, Photoshop and QuickBooks are not yet Intel-optimized). When my main applications go Intel, Apple should have a " Rev. C" MacBook Pro ready for me, with all of the bugs ironed out and ready for reliable, QUIET service.

sorry to see you leave the thinkpad community..

drop in from time to time..

Who knows, perhaps Vista will change things. For now, Windows just has too much malware. I miss the ThinkPad hardware, and considered my T42p to be "better" engineered than either of my PowerBooks, but the OS on the Mac side was a bigger push than the ThinkPad hardware.

Oh well, we can't always get what we want (a 14" T42p running OS X with full hardware support), so we settle for good enough.

You definitely get a vote from me, the T42p is working spectacular. And as for windows problems, I use linux (Though it is a chore to get configured just right.. that project begins soon )

Linux just doesn't do it for me. There is no Microsoft Office, and while there are plenty of alternatives, ALL of them would require file format conversion to work with Word documents.

File format conversion is not an option, run legal pleadings through a converter and you'll end up with all kinds of jumbled formatting and a nice long clean-up job when finished. Unacceptable.

asiafish wrote:File format conversion is not an option, run legal pleadings through a converter and you'll end up with all kinds of jumbled formatting and a nice long clean-up job when finished. Unacceptable.

Been there done that, not fun, especially with 2-300 page pleadings, not to mention depos.

But then you are back with all of the problems of Windows, not to mention a VERY complex solution to a very simple task (writing documents).

Why go to all the trouble of setting up Linux (contrary to popular belief, getting everything to work on a modern laptop is not a matter of simply running the installer), configuring virtual machines, running a second operating system inside the first, then dealing with whatever hassles there are with getting printing, copy/paste and saving to work across operating systems.

I turn on my Mac, launch Word for Mac, and my legal and other documents open natively, without any file format conversion or document reformatting required. In fact, on a Windows PC, sometimes documents have to be reformatted if you try to print from a different printer, but on the Mac, everything stays put, ALWAYS.

I think I'll take the battery

YGPM