New R60e vs used T43 purchase

[patrick_b]

Hello,

Time for a new machine for personal use. No gaming or watching movies, mostly e-mail, web browsing, word processing of small documents, digital photo editing, writing simple html web pages, and pumping music into my car or home stereo via the headphone jack. I don't care one way or the other about a fingerprint reader. The difference in CPU isn't that important to me. A pound or so one way or the other doesn't concern me. It would be nice to set up a dual boot machine since there are some networking clients I use under Ubuntu, so I'm probably going to have to get my hands on the restore disk set.

I keep my computers until they are literally falling apart, so... longevity is a big plus with me. I value that much more than the latest and greatest in performance.

I'm looking at the R60e, or through a friend at IBM a certified used T43 for a comparable price.

Link to non-employee page showing the certified used T43
http://tinyurl.com/ca5hn

It seems like the R60e offers pretty much everything the T43 does, plus it comes with a DVD burner, and a new battery.

R60e would be set up as Celeron M 1.6GHz, 512MB RAM, 60GB disk, DVDR, 15" XVA, built in wireless, XP Pro

T43 is Pentium M 1.7GHz, 512MB RAM, 60GB disk, CD-RW/DVD, 15" XVA, built in wireless, XP Pro

Thoughts? Is there some really important thing I'm overlooking?

Thank you...

[pianowizard]

Thoughts? Is there some really important thing I'm overlooking?

How much warranty does each one come with? The T43 is much faster than the R60e, but you said you don't care about that.

[patrick_b]

6 months for the T43, 1 year for the R60e.

And yeah... CPU speed... I'm coming from a Dell Inspiron 3500 with a PII 366MHz. So...

[pianowizard]

6 months for the T43, 1 year for the R60e.

Get the R60e, not just because of the longer warranty, but also it has a DVD burner, it's new, and the T43 quite likely has a loud fan.