[ale] New laptop

[drifter]

I would offer only one suggestion after fighting reliability issues with my 
wife's Mac laptop:
Pay the money and get the three-year extended warranty.  You're going to 
need it.  In my limited experience, the hardware is not as reliable as I 
expect it do be -- certainly not in relation to the high cost.
The Mac is a well-designed piece of machinery and the software mostly "just 
works." But it only works the way the Mac engineers wanted it to work. If 
you don't like the way the GUI looks, tough; you can't do much about it.

Sean


 On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 7:27 PM, George Allen <glallen01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> My home laptop broke, physically, after 5 years of abuse (IBM's stand
> up well), so I am looking to buy a new one. Considerations are:

> -Thinkpad T or X series. - I've had a T41 (still running headless w/
> dead LCD after 7years) and X32 (latest, cpu fan died) I like IBM,
> like the keyboard, prefer the trackpoint to a touchpad, and am
> satisfied with the durability. Also- IBM hardware generally supports
> linux.

> -Apple- always wanted one, couldn't afford one before now, am tempted
> but realized I could even get the IBM X200-Tablet for the price of a
> 15in macbook pro. Also questionable linux support, because I would
> install linux on this. They seem durable, but I don't know that I
> quite like the keyboard/trackpad much.