Buying a New Laptop

[Jeffrey Watts]

I think he's referring to the aesthetics and quality of materials.  Things
have gotten better recently, but the majority of non-Apple laptops out there
are made of cheap plastic and have terrible keyboards and trackpads - the
only well made ones I've seen were similar in price to Apple's stuff.

When it comes to trackpads, I've yet to use a non-Apple trackpad that wasn't
crap.  I either use a trackpoint (like on my Dell) or plug in a wireless
mouse.

Of course, this goes back to what folks care about in a laptop.  Some folks
want the best stats for the least money, and others care more about the
aesthetics.  I usually fall in the latter category, but I suppose part of
that is because I'm always somewhere where I have multiple computers, and I
usually run my virtual hosts on my server.

I agree with you on Intel chips though.

Jeffrey.

On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:24 PM, thomas at redhat.com <thomas at redhat.com>wrote:
>
>
> Meh. I've owned the following Thinkpads over the 6 years - T42, T60,
> T61, X60, two X61s, T500, and T510.
>
> All of them have Just Worked(TM) with Linux (inluding accelerated
> graphics), and out of all of them, I've had *one* hardware issue
> requiring a visit by a technician.
>
> So I'm gonna have to call BS on your assertion. Thinkpads are not cheap,
> but you get what you pay for.
>
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