This is IBM Aptiva (2140 L71).<BR><BR>Would the different ATA mode cause intermittent problems like that or should this either always work or never?<BR><BR>Thanks for all your help,<BR>d.

IBM Corp. announced last week that it will stop selling its money-losing Aptiva home computers through U.S. retail stores and will sell them exclusively over the Internet. The PCs will be pulled fr… ...

Starting Jan. 1, IBM will at least temporarily remove its Aptiva line of PCs from stores until it can come up with a revamped strategy to make selling the machines profitable.

He threw money at them. I got to thinking about my family’s very own doughboy while reviewing the Cadillac of computers, a sleek new Pentium II IBM Aptiva S62 lent to me by Big Blue.