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    I'm loving this "new" laptop!

    Some of you read my thread where a friend picked up an IBM laptop at a garage sale for $20.00 and we found out they sell for 4-500.00 on eBay, then he gave it to me as a gift.

    Well recording with this thing is a dream... NO HUM WHAT SO EVER!.

    On my desktop computer I have to constantly move around to lower the hum from my guitar, but with the laptop, it's ALL GONE now mater how I position myself.

    They cost a bit more, but man, it just seems to be the way to go. No hum AND I can just move it around when I want to record somewhere else.
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    Re: I'm loving this "new" laptop!

    That's awesome Mark!
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    Re: I'm loving this "new" laptop!

    What model is it?
    Im too lazy to search :rolleyes:

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    Re: I'm loving this "new" laptop!

    Thanks Fezz and Bob, it's an IBM Thinkpad 600x with a 12 gig drive, it came with 130 megs of RAM, but I've bumped it up to 320 with old RAM laying around from obsolete machines. It's a 650mhz PIII and even has a docking station with a joystick port for my MIDI cable for programming my modeler.

    Has a built in 56K modem and a Linksys 10/100 Ethernet card. The cool thing is that it has a headphone output, a mic input AND an AUX input. A lot of laptops don't have an AUX input. I can plug my J-Station right in or my 8 channel mixer.
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    Re: I'm loving this "new" laptop!

    Thinkpad is a super well built machine
    I have a few 770's and they still work great... a little outdated @ 300 mhz. I use one for War Driving. Leave it in the truck, sit on it, kick it, spill shit on it ect:

    I have a Compaq EVO n610C...Pentium4/ 2.0 GHZ with a gig of ram.
    Very nice machine and weighs in at 5 pounds.

    Good luck with the 600x......... fine machine and the price was right :ahem

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    Re: I'm loving this "new" laptop!

    I really like the rubber cover it has on it and all the ports are coved up by little rubber doors. Maybe some day I'll get a faster one, but that might not be until I get rid of a few kids...
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    Re: I'm loving this "new" laptop!

    When I asked about laptops and recording here, I remember someone telling me that a desktop PC monitor gives off more radiation than a laptop PC screen...and that equals less hum.
    i bet this really annoy's you if your a grammar freak.

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    Re: I'm loving this "new" laptop!

    Yes, they do, it's best to spend the extra money on a laptop or at least flat panel LCD monitors.
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