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Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:27 pm**

stylinexpat wrote:The Chinese Software alone is enough to not allow you to use it. I just got off the phone with an IBM sales person from America & he said that no 7200 rpm drives were available for order with the X60 Thinkpads

That's bull, you can config. one online with 100g 7200rpm

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:29 pm**

pimlottc wrote:
poky wrote:Since your location is in Taiwan, why not buy the taiwanese X60s model#1706-BC4
Come with L2500 1.83Ghz, 1G ram, 7k100 100g Ultralight screen with bluetooth, the best X60s config. setup I have seem so far.
Wow, that's a sexy config... and it has 802.11n too. (Specs) Is it available anywhere else? (In English?)

Actually, what exactly is different in Taiwanese versons, aside from the OS language?

Exactly the same hardware, only keyboard has some chinese watermarks, but same layout with US keyboard.

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2007 6:32 pm**

poky wrote:
stylinexpat wrote:The Chinese Software alone is enough to not allow you to use it. I just got off the phone with an IBM sales person from America & he said that no 7200 rpm drives were available for order with the X60 Thinkpads
That's bull, you can config. one online with 100g 7200rpm

I saw that configuration option available online but it did not allow me to configure (or order) a 7200 rpm hard drive with the 2.0 Core 2 Duo CPU from the IBM website as of today.

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2007 8:28 pm**

stylinexpat wrote:The Chinese Software alone is enough to not allow you to use it.

No big deal, I'm planning to install Linux anyway.

poky wrote:
pimlottc wrote:Actually, what exactly is different in Taiwanese versons, aside from the OS language?
Exactly the same hardware, only keyboard has some chinese watermarks, but same layout with US keyboard.

Hmm, if this is the case, maybe I should try to get that Taiwanese model somehow...

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2007 9:23 pm**

pimlottc wrote:
stylinexpat wrote:The Chinese Software alone is enough to not allow you to use it.
No big deal, I'm planning to install Linux anyway.

poky wrote: Exactly the same hardware, only keyboard has some chinese watermarks, but same layout with US keyboard.
Hmm, if this is the case, maybe I should try to get that Taiwanese model somehow...

The market price for this model is around 53,000 NTD, around $1,600 USD, pretty good price compare with the US model

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2007 10:48 pm**

So, anyone know a Taiwanese store with an English web page that'll ship internationally?

Posted: **Wed Mar 07, 2007 1:13 am**

The $2050 USD price I got from IBM included him throwing in a docking station & an IBM dvd drive or CD Rom drive. Don't recall if it was a CD or DVD but one gets both, the drive and the docking station for that price with a 2.0 Core 2 Duo processor along with the 3 year International warranty.

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