Looking for another "legacy" laptop with XP and serial port and some of the cheaper ones mention white spots on the display. This would be fine for my purposes if said spots was not an indicator of a monitor on the verge of more serious problems. Example at link below*. What say ye ?
this IBM Thinkpad on eBay
As an aside, it amazes me folks are still paying this much for these things as I noticed at Best Buy recently one can buy brand new laptops (Acer and Gateway) with wide screen and Vista for only $399 these days, so seems like these "antique" Thinkpads would be going for 150 bucks !
Ironically, I would just go buy a $399 new one in spite of lack of serial port if not for the fact that all the new ones come with Vista ! Since getting Vista on my desktop I am constantly amazed at how many programs and hardware is not compatable with Vista, much of it never will be.
*and yes I know this particular one doesn't have a serial port..just the first example of white spots on a monitor I came across.
this IBM Thinkpad on eBay
As an aside, it amazes me folks are still paying this much for these things as I noticed at Best Buy recently one can buy brand new laptops (Acer and Gateway) with wide screen and Vista for only $399 these days, so seems like these "antique" Thinkpads would be going for 150 bucks !
Ironically, I would just go buy a $399 new one in spite of lack of serial port if not for the fact that all the new ones come with Vista ! Since getting Vista on my desktop I am constantly amazed at how many programs and hardware is not compatable with Vista, much of it never will be.
*and yes I know this particular one doesn't have a serial port..just the first example of white spots on a monitor I came across.