[KLUG Members] Question On Linux Friendly laptop

[Adam Tauno Williams]

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 14:07 -0500, Michael Lueck wrote:
> On Wed, 02 Feb 2005 13:56:45 -0500, Adam Tauno Williams wrote:
> 
> >For durability there is only IBM.
> 
> "WAS" since they sold.

Nah, the company (the one starting with L) is the company that has been
manufacturing their PC and laptop gear for years.  I don't expect any
change in quality,  they get to keep the Thinkpad name so IBM must be
pretty confident they aren't going to crappify their stuff.

> I have my eye on a Dell Precision M70 with nVidia Quaddro graphics, 7200RPM
> disk, etc... Seems to be the only laptop out there with the mobile Quaddro
> chips.

We go through lots of laptops here;  you couldn't PAY me to own a Dell.
Flimsy garbage with an astonishing failure rate; like 3 out of 5 LCDs
fritzing in the first 6 months, hard drives that don't even make it a
year, and on an on.  HP/Compaqs have been pretty solid except for
touchpad/keyboard issues (and being really slow compared to other
models).   Toshiba's have been quite solid, you get ~2 years before they
start to physically fall apart (although they still 'work').  IBMs are
IBMs,  they keep going long after you wish they would just die already.