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hi,

i'm scheduled for a business trip to sf soon and would be looking for an x60/x60s with the 100gb 7200rpm hdd (and at least 1gb of ram).

anyone know if there is a good place to start looking for it in san francisco?

ranix

Craigslist?

isn't craiglist 2nd hand? don't think i'll find an x60 with this spec as 2nd hand.

anyhow, i'm looking for a place i can just pick up one.

most stores which have local stores don't seem to carry lenovo/ibm, and especially not the x60.

any pointers would be appriciated.

tnx!

I don't know of a place in San Francisco proper for the X60. Last year I tried to find a T43 to look at, but couldn't after calls to numerous resellers. Office Depot then began stocking ThinkPads, but I don't think they stock the X60.

If you can get down to Stanford (30 miles south by car or train) try their bookstore. Last time I was there they had an X4x on display but their website shows the X60.

ganttguy wrote: If you can get down to Stanford (30 miles south by car or train) try their bookstore. Last time I was there they had an X4x on display but their website shows the X60.

Even closer (and possibly better! ) is The Scholar's Workstation just across the bridge in Berkeley. They have stocks of everything from the T60 to the Z60 to the X60 as floor models.

*However*, note that this is getting a bit too close to a discussion about educational pricing. I do not remember the terms of stanford's bookstore when it comes to selling products to non-student customers; I am, however, fairly sure that the TSW *will* sell to non-student customers, just without the student/faculty/staff discount.

I would also like to note that the is a "Reseller Locater" on IBM/Lenovo's page that you can use to find the closest reseller via zip code. Let me see if I can find the link to it then post back.

By the way, here is the link to the reseller locator; see

http://www.pc.ibm.com/us/bp_search.html

tnx everybody... these are great starting points!

great to know there's such big community support for thinkpad

No problem.

Let us all know if you find a closer re-seller.

It's been a few years since I bought a machine there, but I believe that the Stanford Bookstore will not sell a machine to someone not affiliated with the university (e.g. student, faculty, staff). They may have changed their policy, so I'd suggest calling them up if you plan to purchase there. They do usually have a good number of machines out for demo, so it's a nice place to take a look at the machines.

ranix wrote:tnx everybody... these are great starting points!

great to know there's such big community support for thinkpad

there are two good "used" X60's on the marketplace, here..

also, even though everyone forgets that I TOO sell new thinkpads, even now, from time to time, i DO and getting one to san francisco is relatively easy when there is some time to arrange things..
also to be considered is that there WILL BE an 8.25~ % sales tax on anything you pick up in california unless it is sent from out of state to your hotel..

i could probably get stanford bookstore to sell me a thinkpad (since i have, even now, some connections there) but the sales tax issue does not go away for anyone..