I can do it now. I bought myself a new (to me) laptop, an IBM Thinkpad T43. 2 gigs ram, 80 gig hard drive and a Pentium M processor. Certainly not a powerhouse by any means since it's old technology by now, but it's fine for my needs, it's cheap, and it works. It's a slower processor than my old HP laptop, but jesus that HP was a POS.
I do seem to be having some battery issues, but for a couple hundred bucks I can't complain. I really needed something that didn't constantly overheat and crash like crazy without warning.
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if ye like, i can call the battery warehouse down the street from us for a price on that battery.
That would be awesome! I'm almost positive it's the battery. (and of course that's the one piece of hardware that's not warrantied)
I kept getting "No OS Found" crap and it would only boot up once every ~20 times. When it did boot it'd work but then crash w/ the BSOD.
With the battery removed it has booted up & ran fine every time.
The can would be the perfect place to read the Delaware Liberal!
As a guy who's been through 4 ThinkPads and loves his current T42, you should be very happy with that machine once you replace the battery.
It's also very well supported under any open-source OS you can name, in case you ever get tired of Windows.
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