[Gllug] Seeking some laptop advice

[James Laver]

On 5 Jun 2009, at 19:31, Stephen Nelson-Smith wrote:
>
> To answer the OP:
>
> I've had excellent results with the original IBM laptops, no
> experience with Lenovo.  But as someone else says, these aren't
> available any more.

I can't recommend the IBM stinkpads^Wthinkpads highly enough, my main  
laptop is one and I'm a very happy user of it. Sure, it's out of date  
(1.2ghz), but it runs ubuntu at quite a lick. I just bought a shiny  
5600/7200 rpm drive for it (for more space rather than the speed I  
might use whilst on main power) and I'm going to shove a gig of memory  
in it at some point.

On the other hand, I've heard bad things about the purely lenovo  
stinkpads. Looks like when you don't have IBM looking over your  
shoulder, things go wrong.

As for not buying macs, Schinker, you're an idiot. My macbook pro  
that I unfortunately left in a cab (and let that be a lesson to use  
hard disk encryption to you all, and also to be careful about checking  
you've got everything) was the best laptop ever made, hands down.

--James


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