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Fred Mertz · #1 Post by **Fred Mertz** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:17 am

My Brother who has never owned a Thinkpad before was offered an A21P for $150.It has a bad NIC.What does this mean and is this a good deal?Thanks

smugiri · #2 Post by **smugiri** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 11:35 am

Fred Mertz wrote:My Brother who has never owned a Thinkpad before was offered an A21P for $150.It has a bad NIC.What does this mean and is this a good deal?Thanks

A NIC is a RJ45 network connector and card combo for ethernet networking.

Some A21p's did not ship with a NIC so the port may just be a dummy but bad NICs on the A2x series machines are a known defect. A replacement PCMCIA NIC can be had for less than $20-30 on eBay so that it not a big deal. $150 is a little high but fair.

Fred Mertz · #3 Post by **Fred Mertz** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 8:09 am

Thanks.He is only going to use this for internet access with a PCMIA adapter card.I assume this makes the NIC unnecessary.

Fred Mertz · #4 Post by **Fred Mertz** » Thu Nov 02, 2006 10:10 am

Forgot to add that machine has 512MB.Maybe that makes it a better deal.

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