{"id":66,"date":"2005-12-02T11:54:44","date_gmt":"2005-12-02T18:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/systemsolver.com\/StatlerBlog\/?p=66"},"modified":"2005-12-02T11:54:44","modified_gmt":"2005-12-02T18:54:44","slug":"used-thinkpad-laptop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/2005\/12\/02\/used-thinkpad-laptop\/","title":{"rendered":"Used ThinkPad Laptop"},"content":{"rendered":"

I just ordered a reconditioned ThinkPad. They will give me 7 days to return it. It comes with a 3 month warranty. I ordered it from IBM directly<\/a>. It is slightly blemished. I got it for $700. It is running at 2 gigahertz, has at least 256 mb RAM, a 60 gigabyte HDD, a 14.1″ TFT screen and has MS XP Pro installed.<\/p>\n

I just couldn’t justify the cost of a new ThinkPad. I have a new client that occassionally needs me to take a laptop to job sites. I could have gotten something besides a ThinkPad but I am assuming it to be among the most reliable.<\/p>\n

I didn’t order any bells or whistles. They say the battery has been reconditioned so I assume it will be okay for awhile. I will have to buy a wireless card but I can get that for about $70 online.<\/p>\n

I had to think long and hard about this purchase. I learned that there are three classes of laptops: Portables (light weight at around 4 lbs), Desktop replacements (at around 8 pounds with large screens) and multi-media (the highest priced aimed at gamers). I don’t really need the best of any of those worlds. My needs were between Portables and Desktop replacements…perhaps a different class altogether, I need a technician’s tool but I didn’t find any discussions about that class online.<\/p>\n

I almost ordered a nice business-class desktop replacement Dell for $1018. I decided that I would rather take the chance on a reconditioned workhorse than something fancy that would sit around the house while I worked on a real desktop. I didn’t want to take the chance on an inexpensive model. So, here I sit waiting for delivery. I hope it arrives early next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I just ordered a reconditioned ThinkPad. They will give me 7 days to return it. It comes with a 3 month warranty. I ordered it from IBM directly. It is slightly blemished. I got it for $700. It is running at 2 gigahertz, has at least 256 mb RAM, a 60 gigabyte HDD, a 14.1″ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systemsolver.goodhealthyday.com\/StatlerBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}