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An IBM ThinkPad 600E has accompanied me for around five years now. It has survived two drops from about a meter height, hours of usage on train and carrying in various transportation vehicles, a whole bunch of hacky festivals (meaning lots of dirt and strange operating environments), a shift of operating systems (from BeOS to [[Linux]]), a 4-inch flood standing on the floor in a soaked cloth bag, my relatively careless overall handling and of course an uncountable number of keystrokes.

 

An IBM ThinkPad 600E has accompanied me for around five years now. It has survived two drops from about a meter height, hours of usage on train and carrying in various transportation vehicles, a whole bunch of hacky festivals (meaning lots of dirt and strange operating environments), a shift of operating systems (from BeOS to <span class="plainlinks"<span class="plainlinks">[http://bit.ly/oozP9A <span style="color:black;font-weight:normal;text-decoration:none!important;background:none!important; text-decoration:none;">removal cream</span>]</span>/span>), a 4-inch flood standing on the floor in a soaked cloth bag, my relatively careless overall handling and of course an uncountable number of keystrokes.

About a year ago, the TrackPoint failed and I had to replace the keyboard (spare parts, by that time, were cheap on eBay). Last year, the motherboard went nuts and I had to replace that, too (strictly, it's now a 600X). That's not 'without a glitch', but still I regard this beauty of a laptop as a highly reliable, usable tool. When I eventually will replace it with a more current ThinkPad instance, I will get nostalgic.

About a year ago, the TrackPoint failed and I had to replace the keyboard (spare parts, by that time, were cheap on eBay). Last year, the motherboard went nuts and I had to replace that, too (strictly, it's now a 600X). That's not 'without a glitch', but still I regard this beauty of a laptop as a highly reliable, usable tool. When I eventually will replace it with a more current ThinkPad instance, I will get nostalgic.

it currently is used for setting up [[Wall-8]], but will later be replaced (by an old 233Mhz PC), because i would want it as a mobile [[wireless]] [[router]]

it currently is used for setting up [[Wall-8]], but will later be replaced (by an old 233Mhz PC), because i would want it as a mobile [[wireless]] [[router]]