From: Andrew Wells (ajwells_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Nov 25 2002 - 01:17:40 EST
I use a T23 every day, but it creaks and groans as you open the case,
the keyboard is mush and it radiates heat up through the keyboard like a
sauna... for my money the best TP by a mile is the 600x, which appears
to be the peak of the design/build/size/speed matrix... of course I need
to run a bigger external screen a lot of the time and use the built in
wireless of the T23 so I put up with the bad design and build quality...
I go into clients homes all the time and see them with their A and T
series computers and ask them how they like them, to which they always
reply "oh Thinkpads are the best!"... but then you ask them about all
these aspects and they always agree about them, now that they stop and
think about it... which makes me think that IBM is probably right in
cutting quality corners... although consumers would prefer a better
designed and built machine, they don't demand it... so why give it to
them? Clearly a lot of profit was left on the table designing and
building the 600 series... lets hope they make some of that back with
the A, T and X series...
Oh I did see a T30 at a clients home and was very unimpressed... the
casing now looks and feels much thicker and bulkier on the bottom and
although the screen opens more smoothly than the T series, the keyboard
still smokes and is mushy and a lot of the plastic is loose and ill
fitting... ah progress!
Andrew Wells
-----Original Message-----
From: thinkpad-admin_at_stderr.org [mailto:thinkpad-admin_at_stderr.org] On
Behalf Of RayBay
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2002 12:20 AM
To: shamanjp
Subject: [Thinkpad] Un-Crappy ThinkPads
385 ED, 386 XD, 390, 390 E, 390 X, 560Z, 570 E, 760 XL, 760 XD, 765 L,
765 D, 770 ED, 770 X, 770 Z, 600, 600e, and the 600X as the best of the
bunch. Ignoring, of course, the unreliable floppy drives of most of
them, and the quickly wearing keyboards of the 760 and 760. The 600
series has few weaknesses.
Out of the recent models, both the T and A series are looking good, but
it is early... the A-21, A-22, A-30, A-31, and T-21, T-22, T-23, and
T-30
seem to be the best of these... but it will take a while to know which
model letters will apply to the most reliable list. Perhaps the X-21
and X-22 if you don't include the peripherals.
shamanjp wrote:
>
> After following this Crappy Thinkpad conversation I got to thinking
that it
> would be interesting and useful to hear opinions on which would be
> considered the most reliable models.
--"I know what you're thinking about," said Tweedledum; but it isn't so, nohow." "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't it ain't. That's logic."
Through the Looking-Glass
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