IBM laptop

[Madison Kelly]

Marc Lijour wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I am after a good IBM laptop to do development (Java application server, 
> Eclipse most of all) and of course to run my favorite Linux distro :-)
> 
> What's the best one out there right now? I assume support for Linux being 
> optimum.
> 
> Does somebody know of a good place/site where to buy it?
> 
> thanks.
> 
> marc

As a former *huge* thinkpad fan I need to point out that "ThinkPad" is 
now owned by "Lenovo". They have the rights to the ThinkPad name for 
five years and IBM has a fairly big stake in their company (part of the 
same agreement) but otherwise no longer dictates the design of the machines.

I personally now hesitate to buy ThinkPads... ArsTechnica had a review 
of a recent Lenovo ThinkPad and it looks like they are really going for 
the "hip/cool" thing and not doing such a great job at it. I have no 
basis for saying this, but my gut is preventing me from trusting the 
quality of ThinkPads any more.

This from someone who used her ThinkPad three times as a bumper when 
crashing while roller blading...

Currently I would actually trust the business-line laptops from either 
HP or Toshiba... Which depending on your particular tastes.

Madison

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