Re: [Thinkpad] Re: On T&A and X-ratings

Actually I've had some T-30's with keyboards every bit as good as the 600
series, and a few of the T23's are just as good - depends on who made the
keyboard.
The X series are also in that class, although just a bit smaller.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward Mendelson" <emendelson@compuserve.com>
To: "Thinkpad List" <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 12:23 PM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Re: On T&A and X-ratings

> Hi Deanna,
>
> All the responses to your original question about the 600X seem to be
> reasons NOT to want one, so here's a quick note on the reasons why that
> model is worth having.
>
> Reasons 1, 2, and 3. The keyboard. The 600 series had the best keyboard on
> any laptop until the current T4x models came along. The ThinkPad 75x was
> pretty good; the 76x was a bit mushy; the 77x was a bit worse, but the 600
> was by bar the best. Some people don't care about the keyboard; for those
of
> us for whom it matters a lot, the 600 series had the best laptop keyboard,
> and the 600X was the fastest and most capable of the 600 series. I didn't
> think seriously about buying a new laptop until the T4x series came along.
> (And even in the T4x series, there are two interchangeable keyboards - the
> one made in China feels mushy; the other, made in Thailand, feels
terrific.
> For full details and part numbers, search the forum at www.thinkpads.com)
>
> Reason 4. Much less important, and entirely subjective: the 600X has a
> combination of solidity and luxury that's very hard to match, and it's
easy
> to equip it with just about anything.
>
> Yes, the 600X has no built-in ethernet, and certainly no built-in
wireless,
> but I tend to keep mine equipped with a 3Com ethernet card with an Xjack
in
> one PC Card slot, and, in the other slot, either a Sony wireless card
(with
> the tiny folded-upward antenna that sticks out only a few millimeters) or
a
> 3Com wireless card with Xjack, so the whole package is very compact. I've
> upgraded the one I use in the office to 800MHz (from the original 650) and
> put in a fast hard disk, and performance is very satisfactory. With the
> Selectadock III (or II), the machine makes a well-equipped desktop
complete
> with an internal floppy, DVD drive, Zip drive, SCSI connectors (for an old
> scanner), a PCI network card and a PCI video card for running an external
> monitor. The only thing that I wish I could fix is that it won't boot from
a
> USB drive.
>
> Does this give some idea of why people want those machines? Again, it's
the
> keyboard that matters most, but everything else helps.
>
> Edward
>
>
>
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