[Gllug] Laptop shopping

[Richard Jones]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:38:52AM +0100, James Laver wrote:
> On 15 Aug 2009, at 11:33, Richard Jones wrote:
> >
> > What about another IBM^WLenovo Thinkpad?  A lucky few people at work
> > have the solid-state version, which is seriously fast albeit limited
> > in storage (64GB I think).
> >
> > Rich.
> 
> I was under the impression that without IBM's oversight, lenovo had  
> gotten sloppy and ruined their range.
>
> Is that true?

I have an X60s which dates from just after the acquisition by Lenovo
(it was bought Feb 2007).  It was delivered with obviously faulty
memory which couldn't manage more than a few minutes under memtest.
This was replaced by Lenovo.  The battery died after 2 1/2 years.  I
don't mean it wore out -- it just suddenly one day ceased working at
all, so I suspect an internal connection broke.  It also shuts down
hard if it overheats, but I suspect an ACPI / OS (software) problem.

I make it sound like a catalogue of failures, but actually this laptop
is solid as a rock, far less trouble than my Apple laptops have been.

All three Apple laptops that I've acquired over the years (two from my
previous job) are currently in small pieces on the floor of my office.

The SSD-based Lenovo laptops I mentioned above were from end of 2008.
I've heard no complaints.

I'll let other comment about more recent Lenovo kit.

> What about battery life too? I imagine solid state disks  
> lengthen it somewhat.

Don't know about SSDs.  I get hours and hours out of my X60s.

Rich.

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Richard Jones
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