[Thinkpad] Least expensive thinkpad out there with GOOD built inwireless?

Paul A. Pennington paulpenn at knology.net
Sun Feb 4 11:45:22 CST 2007


    Courtney;

    According to the TWBOOK, your 760 XL is 11..7 x 8.3 x 2.14 inches and 
weighs 6.7 pounds!  Just about anything you get is going to be smaller and 
lighter :-)

    How much would you like to spend, and what other programs will you be 
running?

    My son just gave me his old 600, and it's a really nice little computer.
It's 11.8 x 9.4 x 1.4 inches and 5.01 pounds.  I put in a 20 GB hard drive 
and a Linksys Wireless B card and I've been having a lot of fun with it.  I 
loaded a Windows XP Home upgrade on it and it runs surprisingly well, 
considering it's a 300 MHz Pentium 2.  The memory is maxed out at 288 MB.

    It surfs the internet with Internet Explorer 7 very nicely -- not as 
snappy as a new computer but very acceptable.  I also loaded MS Streets and 
Trips and plugged in a GPS.  Worked very well, although it crashed when 
doing voice announcements.  Just turned that off -- I never liked them 
anyway.

    These are available for not much money now.  By the way, it has the best 
laptop keyboard I've ever typed on.

    Paul Pennington
    Augusta, Georgia 



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