5 Jul
2012
5 Jul
'12
8:26 a.m.
On Jul 5, 2012, at 10:52 AM, Mark Benson wrote:
Lenovo Thinkpad laptops sadly are sliding towards
'plastic crap' and
away from the 'solid built IBM quality' end of the scale.
For "everyday" work (i.e. light development work, web browsing,
email, etc.), older Thinkpads are great and are pretty robust in
the face of heavy abuse. Just drop something lightweight on them
(I have a hard time counting modern Linux as lightweight, but some
BSDs do the trick nicely).
I can't imagine that Lenovo would maintain the quality that IBM
did, but then I was never sure why IBM maintained that quality
either. Perhaps it was because they were standard in large
businesses that would shell out real money for PCs?
Sad, the (2007) R61i that got returned to me with a
dead battery went
through 3 years of hell with a teenager and came out fighting, has a
missing key and the awfully slow hard drive got slung in favour if an
SSD but aside from that it's a champ. It even rubs Windows 8 pretty
well!
I hear Windows 8 needs a lot of rubbing.
- Dave