Is the price for this T42 legitimate?

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canuck97 · #1 Post by **canuck97** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:46 pm

Hello.
I'd like to know if you think that the price for this ThinkPad T42 is legitimate? I got that offer a few days ago and am considering to buy this one.

Heres the ThinkPad:

IBM ThinkPad T42
Pentium M 1,7 GHz (Dothan)
TFT SXGA 1400x1050 (14,1")
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, 32 MB
RAM 1024 MB PC2700 DDR
HDD 80 GB, 5.400 Seagate Momentum
DVD LW
WinXP Prof.

The price is 1380 Euros, which is should be around 1220.28 US Dollar if I'm calculating that correctly...

Thank you very much for any comments!

Greetings,
Canuck

JHEM · #2 Post by **JHEM** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:02 pm

1380 Euros = 1739.49 U.S. dollars!

Is this for a new or used T42?

Regards,

James

canuck97 · #3 Post by **canuck97** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:50 pm

Hello. Thank you very much for your quick answer. This is the price for a brand new T42. Sorry, I made a mistake with calculating the US Dollar price...

Regards,
Canuck

#4 Post by **BillMorrow** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:55 pm

canuck97 wrote:Hello.
I'd like to know if you think that the price for this ThinkPad T42 is legitimate? I got that offer a few days ago and am considering to buy this one.

Heres the ThinkPad:

IBM ThinkPad T42
Pentium M 1,7 GHz (Dothan)
TFT SXGA 1400x1050 (14,1")
ATI Mobility Radeon 7500, 32 MB
RAM 1024 MB PC2700 DDR
HDD 80 GB, 5.400 Seagate Momentum
DVD LW
WinXP Prof.

The price is 1380 Euros, which is should be around 1220.28 US Dollar if I'm calculating that correctly...

Thank you very much for any comments!

Greetings,
Canuck

i never heard of a new thinkpad with a seagate drive..!!
and you did discover that you used an old conversion rate for U$D to Euro..

i'll sell dollars at that price..

you need to make sure of your vendor..
where is this coming from..??
if ebay, be careful..
as ronald regan used to say "trust, but verify"..
most famously to gorbachev..

canuck97 · #5 Post by **canuck97** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:00 pm

Hello. Thank you for your your answer. This is really a serious distributor and not ebay. The shop is an official IBM/Lenovo partner and has special education offers.
The Seagate HDD was chosen by me since it is possible to choose which drive you want to be integrated in the ThinkPad. Standard was a Hitachi 40 GB, but I decided to go with the 80 GB Seagate Momentus because it got some really good reviews.

So what do you think of the price?

Regards,
Canuck

nirvana0001 · #6 Post by **nirvana0001** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:05 pm

should get a t42p by this price

canuck97 · #7 Post by **canuck97** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 4:11 pm

Hi! What's the further difference between T42 and T42p? It has a SXGA display and 1 GB of RAM - I see no further differences.

Canuck

raabjerg · #8 Post by **raabjerg** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:26 pm

The really huge difference, is that a T42 has a 32MB Radeon 7500 Graphics card, while the T42p has a 128MB ATI FireGL (corresponding to the Radeon 9600 chip, I think).

If you want to do some gaming on your laptop, go with the p-model, otherwise, don't bother.

BTW, I can recommend the Seagate drive, if it's a 5400.3

canuck97 · #9 Post by **canuck97** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 6:39 pm

@raabjerg:

Thank you very much for your posting. Okay, the graphics card / chip is different - but I don't use it for gaming. So it is not that important for me. Do you think that the price i mentioned is okay for the T42 in the configuration I named?

Thanks for your help!

Canuck

raabjerg · #10 Post by **raabjerg** » Wed Jun 14, 2006 7:04 pm

I think the offer is ok, but then again, I don't know the German market.

If it was here in Denmark, it would be ok. The SXGA screen and the Seagate HDD (others probably won't agree on this part), does make the offer more attractive.

Yeah, I think the price is ok

EOMtp · #11 Post by **EOMtp** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 3:02 am

1380 Euros = USD 1740, more than DOUBLE what an identical new unit costs on eBay.

raabjerg · #12 Post by **raabjerg** » Thu Jun 15, 2006 7:07 am

Maybe so, but there are a lot of additional costs in getting a system into the EU, not the least of which are customs and VAT...

systemBuilder · #13 Post by **systemBuilder** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:23 am

IBM ThinkPad T43
Pentium M 1,8 GHz (Dothan)
TFT SXGA 1600x1200 (15" flexview)
ATI Mobility Radeon FireGL, 64 MB
RAM 1024 MB PC2700 DDR
HDD 80 GB, 5.400 Seagate Momentum
DVD-4 Burner
WinXP Prof.

Lenovo USA is running a "Dads and Grads" promotion on their website at $1699 after a $200 rebate, it's good until the end of the month. If you're in the USA, or if you have a friend in the USA, the screen is bigger and it includes a multi-burner, and its straight from Lenovo, what could be simpler ?? I'd go with the product direct from Lenovo.

raabjerg · #14 Post by **raabjerg** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:55 am

The deals are always better in the US, for various reasons (this does not only apply to computers).

Unfortunately, some of us are not located there

And it would not only suffice to have a friend in the US, you would need to have a friend in the US who was going back to Europe soon. If you send equipment like that to Denmark, the customs services will open the package and add 25% VAT for starters... Plus there is the extra €68 for a new keyboard with local layout.

alexzabr · #15 Post by **alexzabr** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:09 am

systemBuilder wrote:IBM ThinkPad T43
Pentium M 1,8 GHz (Dothan)
TFT SXGA 1600x1200 (15" flexview)
ATI Mobility Radeon FireGL, 64 MB
RAM 1024 MB PC2700 DDR
HDD 80 GB, 5.400 Seagate Momentum
DVD-4 Burner
WinXP Prof.

Aren't T43 using PC4200 DDR ? I thought all T43 are built around 533 FSB running PC4200 DDR (at least mine and all other T43 I saw)..
Do I miss something ?

Is the price for this T42 legitimate?

Is the price for this T42 legitimate?

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Probably this is a better deal in the USA ...

Re: Probably this is a better deal in the USA ...

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