IBM laptop

[Madison Kelly]

William Park wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 11:35:50PM -0500, 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?
> 
> Have you considered Acer?  Because
>     - IBM don't make laptops anymore, and
>     - Acer seems to be very aggressive in retail store, right now.

Before I reply, I must admit to being something of a laptop fanatic and 
more than a little opinionated... Feel free to ignore me. :p

I've had to fix a few laptops in my day and, save for iBooks, Acers are 
the worst to work on. That, and they cheap out on things they don't 
think the customer will notice like using sleeve-bearing fans for their 
laptop CPUs instead of paying the extra dollar for a ball bearing fan. 
One TLUG'er here knows the consequences of that a little too well... 
(fan tears it's sleeve and the oil "spins-out" over the internals of the 
laptop).

Acer always has great benchmarks and always has a great price-point. 
Quality was the cost of that.

Madison

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