My new Distraction

[spihunter]

If your ever in the market for a X86 laptop again I would recommend a Lenovo. They are the only ones that can survive being dropped and aren't made out of flimsy plastic. That's about the only thing that seperates them from any other X86 though!

All my MacBook Pro laptops run Mac OS X and I haven't found them any way restricting or limiting. Also I hate flimsy plastic x86 laptop HW, too: Knock the laptop a bit and the plastic breaks. Automagically adjusting keyboard backlight, magnetic power connector and cooling system that doesn't melt the laptop when used on soft surface are the small things that make the difference to me.

Before anyone jumps to any conclusions: I run Debian/GNU Linux on my servers and desktops.

[spihunter]

That one was from the era of when they still built them a bit sturdy. Once they went to the black plastic is was all over. We bought 23 Dell E4300's at work and all 23 came back from our users with broken screens and plastic. We bought 50 Lenovo's and not one has broken yet. I'm not exaggerating that at all!

I always thought they were pretty generic and boring.

The 12" Dell I got from you was a sturdy thing, I drunkenly stepped square on it while it was closed and sitting on the floor, figured "woops, that's crushed" but not so much as a crack.  Maybe I just don't weigh enough!