laptop suggestions?

[Matt Price]

On Mon, 2009-02-02 at 11:34 -0800, Salman Ahmed wrote:
> You might want to consider Lenovo laptops. I have a 15" Lenovo Thinkpad T61 that's very good except for it's battery life... the 15" WSXGA screen and the NVidia card seem to be big battery hogs though. And the 9-cell lenovo battery for my T61 wasn't cheap (CDN$175).
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> I have a feeling you're averse to Dell Latitude laptops, otherwise I'd recommend a new-ish Latitude D830. They are standard issue in our company and my entire team has been using fairly well-specced D830s without any problems. Compared to my personal Lenovo T61 I find my office Latitude D830 to be better built with an excellent display (15" UXGA) and amazing battery life.
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dude -- never again!  the battery life on my d820 fell off to 45 minutes
within 9 months.  awful.  and the keys on the keyboard are really
flimsy; i have a clumsy right hand, and i'm constantly catching a nail
underneath one and popping it off.  some go back on, some don't -- so
for instance i shift by pressing my pinky on directly on the contact
wires in the circuitboard... 

i think the battery issue was fixed after the 820, not sure though.  

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