On 6/13/05, Pete Theisen <petet@acun.com> wrote:
> Robin 'Roblimo' Miller wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> Excuse my ignorance but does IBM make a notebook with an AMD
> >> processor? I looked at their website and all I could find was Intel.
> >>
> >> Paddy
> >
> >
> >
> > I believe all IBM Thinkpad's are Intel. Remember, our corporate IT
> > people were looking for durability, not a specific procesor, and
> > (comparative) lack of breakage was their main reason for choosing IBM
> > laptops.
> >
>
> Hi Roblimo!
>
> I notice that the tool guy who comes to a friend's shop has a panasonic
> "toughbook" mounted in his truck. I asked him about it, he said he liked
> it. There's true ambiguity for you.
We have a lot of utility customers who use the Panasonic Toughbooks,
they are indeed a really solid machine, but these boxes were designed to
be used in the mobile industrial environment and as such they appear to
hold up quite well.
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