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Agreed. Try going 4 years older. My IBM branded X41 is the finest laptop I've owned and ubuntu works flawless on it. I bought a replacement battery for it an

Agreed. Try going 4 years older. My IBM branded X41 is the finest laptop I've owned and ubuntu works flawless on it. I bought a replacement battery for it and get a good 5 hours and a few days standby. I like it so much, I even consider not telling people so I can buy up more used ones and set aside for future parts. But hey, what's life if you don't share. Considering the cost of these on ebay (as much as some new netbooks) I think the secret is already out.

treo 16y ago
I always like to say that you could beat somebody with a x41 over the head and then continue working. Sometime ago a friend of mine actually had to use his X41 to defend himself. He did just that and it worked just fine for some more months until it died from an unrelated problem.
dotBen 16y ago
arhh yes, the X41 - the last laptop I had before I went Mac. I called it my Darth Vadar laptop - strong, sleek black frame, powerful, ugly yet strangely beautiful at the same time. The problem is the X41 always suffered from poor resolution, and certainly that is true by today's standards. I wield a MBP with hi-res matte screen and 1680 x 1050 in a 15" package used at 2 feet from my eyes is basically like a Retina display.
- litewulf 16y ago
  I upgraded the resolution on my X61t to 1400x1050 on a 12" display. "Retina display"? Hah.
  - dotBen 16y ago
    http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/retina-display.html http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/retina-display.html
  - tedunangst 16y ago
    How did you do that?
    - litewulf 16y ago
      It used to be an optional upgrade.
- YuriNiyazov 16y ago
  The x41 had a basic performance problem - they switched to the smaller, iPod-like hard drives, as compared to the regular laptop hard drives that the X31 had. This was unfortunate - when I had the X31, I immediately replaced the stock drive with a 7200RPM drive, and the X31 screamed for years. Then, I got the X41, found out that the same surgery is unavailable, and promptly got rid of it.
dlevine 16y ago
I had a T41p at a previous job - amazing laptop. I actually traded in a Powerbook G4 for it. No issues with it, ever (except that the battery life declined to nothing after a couple of years, and the battery had to be replaced). A few years later, I was given a T60p at an internship. Total junk. Not even in the same league.

treo 16y ago

I always like to say that you could beat somebody with a x41 over the head and then continue working. Sometime ago a friend of mine actually had to use his X41 to defend himself. He did just that and it worked just fine for some more months until it died from an unrelated problem.

dotBen 16y ago

arhh yes, the X41 - the last laptop I had before I went Mac. I called it my Darth Vadar laptop - strong, sleek black frame, powerful, ugly yet strangely beautiful at the same time. The problem is the X41 always suffered from poor resolution, and certainly that is true by today's standards. I wield a MBP with hi-res matte screen and 1680 x 1050 in a 15" package used at 2 feet from my eyes is basically like a Retina display.

litewulf 16y ago
I upgraded the resolution on my X61t to 1400x1050 on a 12" display. "Retina display"? Hah.
- dotBen 16y ago
  http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/retina-display.html http://www.apple.com/iphone/features/retina-display.html
- tedunangst 16y ago
  How did you do that?
  - litewulf 16y ago
    It used to be an optional upgrade.
YuriNiyazov 16y ago
The x41 had a basic performance problem - they switched to the smaller, iPod-like hard drives, as compared to the regular laptop hard drives that the X31 had. This was unfortunate - when I had the X31, I immediately replaced the stock drive with a 7200RPM drive, and the X31 screamed for years. Then, I got the X41, found out that the same surgery is unavailable, and promptly got rid of it.

dlevine 16y ago

I had a T41p at a previous job - amazing laptop. I actually traded in a Powerbook G4 for it. No issues with it, ever (except that the battery life declined to nothing after a couple of years, and the battery had to be replaced). A few years later, I was given a T60p at an internship. Total junk. Not even in the same league.