Weekly Hardware Poll, Dec 14th: What's your favorite notebook?

sxa · 01-04-2004, 01:29 AM

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Originally posted by Whitehat
I will always have a place in my heart for IBM laptops.

They are just a great piece of work. Built well, run well, and look nice too

I like 'em

Whitehat

If I owned this thinpad that I have, I think I would run linux on it..

erraticassassin · 12-03-2004, 06:07 AM

I picked up a 266MHz Panasonic Toughbook for about £235.00, fully refurbished, and run Slackware 9.1 on it. It's slow, but it's built like a tank and rock-solid. My boss has a brand new, £1200 Acer running Windows XP. It's given him no end of problems, it's always crashing and it feels like a piece of flimsy crap compared to the toughbook.

Sometimes being low-tech has its advantages.

sleeper.service · 12-03-2004, 12:20 PM

Already for 2 years... I have rather happily run a dual-boot Compaq Evo N400c.

Admitted: the machine is outdated. But its ultracompact form, convenient keyboard and excellent Linux compatibility... have postponed the replacement decision so far.

Yet nothing lasts forever... so someday I must find a new notebook. Probably as small as Evo 400... but if possible, with a brighter display (proper legibility in full daylight)... and probably something long-running (Transmeta CPU).

initialdrifteg6 · 12-03-2004, 12:31 PM

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Originally posted by finegan
Okay, like last week and the week before, if money wasn't really the big factor, within reason, what would you buy? I'm looking for opinions on reliability, reputation, etc...

Personally, if I had $3k, I would probably buy Alienware, but really... I would get another Thinkpad, they're just tanks.

Cheers,

Finegan

Last week:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=123603
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=121281

i will NEVER buy an alienware... simple fact... i'm an asshole... that's pretty much all there is two it... i was on the phone with them every single day because they did one more thing to piss me off when i had placed my order... granted their computers are very good, but (imo and many others.IBM is one of the best) but i ordered a 5500 and they told me it would be 2 weeks... i waited two weeks and called asking where it was... they told me it would be just a few more days... it was almost done... nothin still.. i called back every single day after that.... every day they told me it would be just a little bit longer... well finally after talkin with 10 different sales/customer reps and 3 different managers, i found out that the LCD screen and the motherboard were on BACKORDER and it would be JANUARY before i got the laptop!.... at that point i told them to phuq off and give me my money back and i just got my dell xps last week....

so until they understand honesty to the customer in the business world and until they grasp the concept of good business ethics... i won't order from them... granted most people won't have this problem and they might even wait it out, but i'm one impatient bastard.