[thechat] Suggestions?

[Martin Burns]

I'd agree with that (although I'm ex-IBM now). In 10 years constantly on the move with them, I never had a hardware related problem on a Thinkpad. Unless you're keen on a Mac, I'd recommend Lenovo every time.

But yes, as always, wipe the vendor installed crap as soon as possible & replace with a clean Win/Linux image.


Kind Regards/Med vänlig hälsning
Martin Burns 
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> On 6 Dec 2013, at 18:02, erik mattheis <shockingelk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> After a lot of research and a budget of $2.5k or less last November, I
> ended up with a Lenovo W530. I think it was $2.3k all told, including an
> employee discount which is easy to find if you know someone who knows
> someone who knows someone who works for IBM. My priorities were a great
> screen, durability and better than average graphics card. I'm very happy
> with my decision.
> 
> Were I to do it again, I'd have done a clean Windows install as soon as I
> got it as the vendor software has gotten in the way a few times. I was also
> disappointed that it took over two weeks to get it when the shipping
> estimate was 1 week. But overall, it was a good decision.
>> On Dec 6, 2013 11:39 AM, "Luther, Ron" <Ron.Luther at hp.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Gang,
>> 
>> My home machine finally gave up the ghost this week.  She had been limping
>> along for quite some time ... the sound card quit a long time back ... bsod
>> once every month or two.  But now the hard drive boot seems to have gone
>> completely pear-shaped ... soooo ... she's pretty much dead in the water.
>> 
>> I have managed to wrangle a nice newish workstation.   (No no.  Really.
>> She is one VERY sweet gizmo!  Shiny too!)   However ... she has a few ...
>> "issues"; namely:
>>        * She's a 'desktop' form factor, while everything else in the
>> house (with the exception of my recently departed machine) is a laptop.
>>        * She has no operating system whatsoever.
>>        * Her BIOS is, most unfortunately, set up so that she can *only*
>> boot from the hard drive.  You cannae point her to boot from CD-Rom or USB.
>>        ;-(
>> 
>> But hey!   Other than all that, she really is a crackerbox of a machine!
>> 
>> <scratches head />
>> 
>> Ummm, suggestions please?
>> 
>> .
>> .
>> .
>> 
>> BTW - I would especially appreciate workable ideas for how to make her
>> "go" and do stuff!
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> RonL.
>> 
>> (So far the best suggestions have been --- "Why don't you go outside and
>> have a nice run instead?" and "You know you really should spend more time
>> playing your guitars!" --- which, while most encouraging, don't help me
>> check FB or watch cute hedgehog videos.)
>> 
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