Current vintage Thinkpad prices vs other brands

Older ThinkPads.. from the 600, the 7xx, the iSeries, 300, 500, the Transnote and, of course, the 701
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Current vintage Thinkpad prices vs other brands

#1 Post by Unknown_K » Tue Dec 14, 2010 4:10 pm

Is it me or do vintage Gateway, Toshiba, Compaq, etc models of the 90's and early 00's cost more then the equivalent Thinkpad these days?
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Re: Current vintage Thinkpad prices vs other brands

#2 Post by ThinkDan » Tue Jan 18, 2011 4:06 am

I haven't checked, but are they rarer because ThinkPads survive longer? :wink: If you consider 386/486/586 stuff up to the mid/late 1990's then IBM machines were bought in large numbers by corporations, whereas the competitors seemed to have made lesser inroads into the market place. Then again, my perspective was skewed as an IBMer and then working for a few large IBM customers.

The early Compaq notebooks of 386 vintage were reasonably robust, but their late 1990's stuff wasn't. I remember Toshibas being good at the time but can't think of any obvious models now. Gateway in Europe was just cheap and cheerful, so I'd expect them to be very rare now.

235, 300, 360, 701, 750, 755, 760, 820, X20, X21, X22, X23, X31, x60s, T30, T42, PC110
Dan's IBM PalmTop PC110 pages
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