Re: using a laptop as a main machine

On Fri, 8 Nov 2002, Nate Williams wrote:
> [ ThinkPad owner ]
>
> > | I think you need to look at more reliable laptops.
> >
> > Wow.  That is indeed an impressive testimonial.
>
> Backed up by numerous folks.

It's funny not just how different people can have vastly different
experiences, but different circles of people.  For me and a couple people
I know, the Stinkpad has we richly deserved reputation for falling apart
way more often than others in use.  Keys failing, the plastic molding
coming apart, the video link to the monitor at the hinge going out, and
most importantly, the hard drives constantly failing.  Even inside other
laptops I've used in the last few years, it's been IBM drives that have
failed on me.  And this is way under 3 years.  The warranty service has
been a sham, too, with our laptops too often being returned completely
unchanged, or with new problems.  This has nothing to do with FreeBSD
necessarily, though, these are people who were running Linux and Win2k.

I know people will say the opposite, but my Sony Vaio C1XS has been a tank
(I mean that in a good way, it's actually quite a svelte little tank).  I
take it everywhere, including in my backpack while I bike-ride to and from
work a couple times a week (once while making world!) I cracked the screen
once by holding it by the corner, but I don't blame Sony for that.  I've
not yet got APM working, but the camera works, USB and PCMCIA have worked
automatically, the video buffer's too small to do dual-screen correctly
but the newer ones have (8MB buffer) enough for it.  I'm excited to try
firewire soon.

Anyways, just a set of data points.

	Brian



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