[KLUG Members] Opinons on a laptop, please?

[bill]

On Thu, 2006-01-26 at 07:53, Robert G. Brown wrote:

> What would YOU do in this situation, and why?

I'd buy an IBM (now Lenovo) Thinkpad.

> One of my biggest personal concerns with laptops is that they get dropped 
> and kicked around a lot (this is relative, a desktop unit is going to sit
> in one place for the great majority of its life), and the drive is going to
> get harmed at some point. Overall, is a drive is slower because the money
> went to making it more rugged, that's probably a good idea, since slower is
> better than not working at all if the thing has been dropped a few times...

My two solutions: the thinkpad has a program monitoring the computer's
movement/inertia.  If it moves quickly (from jiggles, bumps, falling off
the desk, etc.), the hard disk is stopped.  Don't know for sure how well
it works as I don't drop my laptop either, but I can watch the disk
light stop then restart if I bump the surface it is on.

I've owned three thinkpads (just got a T43) and all of them are rugged. 
Excellent keyboard.  So, for taking abuse I've noticed that while my
friends are always buying new laptops again for some failure or other
I'm still using the same one.

As for backup, I wrote a script that just runs once a week at night.  If
I remember to have the laptop running on the network that night it gets
backed up, if not, I miss a week.  This works well for me as I don't
have that much new info on the laptop.  If I did, I would just make sure
to turn it on that night.

kind regards,

bill

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