From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Nov 8 9:22:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 538F837B401 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 09:22:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 903EF43E42 for ; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 09:22:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: from emerger.yogotech.com (emerger.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA06377; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:21:36 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by emerger.yogotech.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) id gA8HLZob015284; Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:21:35 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15819.62111.450027.558305@emerger.yogotech.com> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2002 10:21:35 -0700 To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" Cc: "Kevin Oberman" , Bakul Shah , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using a laptop as a main machine In-Reply-To: <200211081135.56524.bts@babbleon.org> References: <20021108160115.60AC65D04@ptavv.es.net> <200211081135.56524.bts@babbleon.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.07 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org [ ThinkPad owner ] > | I think you need to look at more reliable laptops. > > Wow. That is indeed an impressive testimonial. Backed up by numerous folks. In the last 8 years, I've been the proud 'owner' of at least 8 different ThinkPads (I had four of them at one point). Only one required me sending it back to the factory, and that was because it dropped off my desk onto the corner of the laptop and it shattered the case and crashed the hard drive. This was certainly not IBM's fault. I've used ThinkPad's as my primary development environment for 5 of the last 10 years, and I have no regrets. Yes, they *are* spendy. But, in this case, you do get what you pay for. The case is better built than most, and IBM has backed up their warranty. The IT dept. at my former employer now exclusively buys IBM's after all the trouble they had with Sony and Dell laptops. I travelled extensively with mine, although I have to admit that I rarely used suspend/resume and instead found it easier just to shutdown/restart the box, since when I travelled it was for the whole day. (And maybe b/c I wrote the original suspend/resume code for FreeBSD I was a bit paranoid about it working right. :) :) :) > I've never owned a "mainline" IBM laptop, always finding them to be a > little bit too expensive for what you get. But perhaps this has been a > mistake. I've used Sony's, NEC's, Dell's, Toshiba's, and Panasonic's, and although I was impressed with the Toshiba's we had, the IBM's were *way* more rugged. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message