[TriLUG] Comments on "IBM Certified Used" equipment?

[Matthew Lavigne]

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When was the last time that you bought IBM equipment?  It has not be a
proprietary design in the last 6 yrs that I worked there.

Andrew,

I have a laptop that was "Certified Used" that has been up and working
with no issues (other then my wif tried to get it to drink 12 oz of iced
tea).

PS if you want the Employees Purchase Program email me off list.

Jesus M. Rodriguez wrote:
| Andrew,
|
| I've owned 3 IBM used computers in my life: IBM PS/2 57 SLC2, IBM
| PC-360 (Pentium Pro),
| and an IBM PC600GL (PII 400MHz).  The PII is my file server running
RHEL 4.
| The PS/2 actually still runs but it's basically a doormat.  The PC-360
| I gutted to build
| a standard ATX machine.
|
| So you shouldn't have any problems with the life a used IBM Machine.
Though
| you do realize that IBM equipment is proprietary so upgrading will be
| relegated to
| hard drives, cdrom drives, etc.  Motherboard or CPU upgrades will most
| likely be out
| of the question.
|
| Jesus M. Rodriguez
|
|
| On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 21:57:10 -0500 (EST), Andrew Perrin
| <clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu> wrote:
|
|>Any comments on the wisdom of buying IBM Certified Used equipment?
|>Specifically, a couple of P4-grade PC's (NetVista).  How used is it likely
|>to be? This is definitely not mission-critical, but would like it to be
|>reasonably reliable.
|>
|>Thanks,
|>Andy
|>
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