New R60e vs used T43 purchase
Posted: Sat Mar 10, 2007 2:43 pm
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...
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...
