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I hear you. I've been stocking up on T61's for a bit now. I have 6 now. It might sound crazy, but its the last well-built machine I've found which is open and n
by hp50g 14y ago
I hear you. I've been stocking up on T61's for a bit now. I have 6 now. It might sound crazy, but its the last well-built machine I've found which is open and not full of shitty hardware or odd screws. I can strip one with a Swiss army knife.
Considering I still use a 75MHz ARM (HP50g) for a lot of things, I don't think the rapid progression of computing will serve me in the future well so I'm happy with one of them and FreeBSD for the next 20 years+.
- DanBC 14y agoSecond hand T61s seem to be weirdly cheap. Is that because there's a glut from businesses selling them and moving to tablets?
- hp50g 14y agoNothing to do with tablets - no one really cares about them in business. You just don't see them other than in the hands of a few purposeless executives. I visit hundreds of medium-large enterprises and they just aren't any. The moment the warranty runs out, they buy T4xx series ones instead and throw the others at resellers in bulk. This is all scheduled alongside windows upgrades. The motivation to get rid of the T61's coincided with Windows 7 upgrades (the T61's nearly all shipped with Vista). I've seen a pallet with 500 T61's on it being carted away from a large insurance company for these reasons.
- notatoad 14y agoT61s are cheap, but the ones with the 1600x1200 screens aren't, unfortunately.