Re: using a laptop as a main machine

[ ThinkPad owner ]

> | I think you need to look at more reliable laptops.
> 
> Wow.  That is indeed an impressive testimonial.

Backed up by numerous folks.  In the last 8 years, I've been the proud
'owner' of at least 8 different ThinkPads (I had four of them at one
point).  Only one required me sending it back to the factory, and that
was because it dropped off my desk onto the corner of the laptop and it
shattered the case and crashed the hard drive.

This was certainly not IBM's fault.  I've used ThinkPad's as my primary
development environment for 5 of the last 10 years, and I have no
regrets.

Yes, they *are* spendy.  But, in this case, you do get what you pay
for.  The case is better built than most, and IBM has backed up their
warranty.  The IT dept. at my former employer now exclusively buys IBM's
after all the trouble they had with Sony and Dell laptops.

I travelled extensively with mine, although I have to admit that I
rarely used suspend/resume and instead found it easier just to
shutdown/restart the box, since when I travelled it was for the whole
day.  (And maybe b/c I wrote the original suspend/resume code for
FreeBSD I was a bit paranoid about it working right. :) :) :)

> I've never owned a "mainline" IBM laptop, always finding them to be a 
> little bit too expensive for what you get.  But perhaps this has been a 
> mistake.

I've used Sony's, NEC's, Dell's, Toshiba's, and Panasonic's, and
although I was impressed with the Toshiba's we had, the IBM's were *way*
more rugged.



Nate

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