Lenovo's having a 25% off sale today only on their new ThinkPad 470, in observation of the 25th anniversary of the ThinkPad. I've owned a bunch of these, and really liked the fit and finish and reliability, right up to the point where they started loading spyware in the BIOS/EFI as well as glop on the OS. Solid machines, and the pointer stick rocked.
Bill Machrone observed 30 years ago that the laptop you want always costs $5000 [1]. Max out this baby and you might be able to hit $3,000. It would be a heck of a machine, too!
[1] https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1545383,00.asp
Speaking of PC Magazine (which I read religiously and actually kept from 1985-1991 and looked awesome on the shelf w/ all the white spines), I see they have a writer named Jennifer Seymour. I looked to see if she's the daughter of writer Jim Seymour, but couldn't find anything confirming that.
On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
Lenovo's having a 25% off sale today only on their new ThinkPad 470, in observation of the 25th anniversary of the ThinkPad. I've owned a bunch of these, and really liked the fit and finish and reliability, right up to the point where they started loading spyware in the BIOS/EFI as well as glop on the OS. Solid machines, and the pointer stick rocked.
Bill Machrone observed 30 years ago that the laptop you want always costs $5000 [1]. Max out this baby and you might be able to hit $3,000. It would be a heck of a machine, too!
[1] https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1545383,00.asp
-- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com
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Jim had a son, Graham, and passed away in 2002: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/11/business/jim-seymour-60-chronicler-of-pers...
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Eric Selje eric.selje@gmail.com wrote:
Speaking of PC Magazine (which I read religiously and actually kept from 1985-1991 and looked awesome on the shelf w/ all the white spines), I see they have a writer named Jennifer Seymour. I looked to see if she's the daughter of writer Jim Seymour, but couldn't find anything confirming that.
On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
Lenovo's having a 25% off sale today only on their new ThinkPad 470, in observation of the 25th anniversary of the ThinkPad. I've owned a bunch of these, and really liked the fit and finish and reliability, right up to the point where they started loading spyware in the BIOS/EFI as well as glop on the OS. Solid machines, and the pointer stick rocked.
Bill Machrone observed 30 years ago that the laptop you want always costs $5000 [1]. Max out this baby and you might be able to hit $3,000. It would be a heck of a machine, too!
[1] https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1545383,00.asp
-- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com
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I remember when Jim passed away. Maybe the new writer is paying homage with a pen name.
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
Jim had a son, Graham, and passed away in 2002: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/11/business/jim-seymour-60- chronicler-of-personal-computers-rise.html
On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:55 AM, Eric Selje eric.selje@gmail.com wrote:
Speaking of PC Magazine (which I read religiously and actually kept from 1985-1991 and looked awesome on the shelf w/ all the white spines), I see they have a writer named Jennifer Seymour. I looked to see if she's the daughter of writer Jim Seymour, but couldn't find anything confirming
that.
On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 12:50 PM, Ted Roche tedroche@gmail.com wrote:
Lenovo's having a 25% off sale today only on their new ThinkPad 470, in observation of the 25th anniversary of the ThinkPad. I've owned a bunch of these, and really liked the fit and finish and reliability, right up to the point where they started loading spyware in the BIOS/EFI as well as glop on the OS. Solid machines, and the pointer stick rocked.
Bill Machrone observed 30 years ago that the laptop you want always costs $5000 [1]. Max out this baby and you might be able to hit $3,000. It would be a heck of a machine, too!
[1] https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,1545383,00.asp
-- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com
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