Matt Graham wrote:
> After a long battle with technology, Vaughn Treude wrote:
>> The goal: As high-performance as possible for $2000 or less. In particular,
>> I want to be able to boot as fast as possible.
>
> "Boot"? Ever since I got a laptop that could suspend-to-RAM reliably,
> rebooting was a pretty rare event. Resuming from S2RAM is tons faster than
> the fastest boot.
>
I never had that working in Linux, but, as I said, it's an old computer.
>> 15" wide screen WXGA+
>
> What's that in pixels?
>
It's 1440 by 900.
>> 2.4 GHz CPU, 2 G, 100 G drive@7200 RPM, DVD+-R, 802.11n, Bluetooth support,
>> 2 USB ports, preferably 3.
>>
>> Dell Inspiron 1520, Toshiba Tecra A9, Lenovo ThinkPad R61, Mac Book Pro.
>> At the moment I'm leaning toward the Lenovo. As far as I can tell, its
>> primary drawbacks are relatively short battery life,
>
> FWIW, I've owned 4 Thinkpads, mostly because I like TrackPoints and no other
> make offers them with any degree of consistency. My Thinkpads were all built
> like tanks, had field circus manuals easily downloadable in PDF form from
> somewhere on IBM's site, and they all had excellent Linux-combatability in
> terms of hardware. But all of mine were IBM, not Lenovo. I don't know
> whether the new ones are cheap crap or not, and won't know until I can scrape
> together enough cash to run a new machine in under my still-usable T42p.
>
>> and the fact that it is (IMHO) one butt-ugly machine.
>
I really don't mind, I just thought I might get a rise out of some
people. :-)
> It looks very similar to how Thinkpads have looked since they started making
> them (classic, like a Model T.)
>
> The Mac is not worth the price premium unless you are going to be editing
> video all the time. If you have *ANY* way of doing so, buy a factory
> refurbished laptop. You'll save hundreds of dollars. All of my laptops were
> refurbished, and I have had exactly 2 hardware problems with them in 8 years
> (one was fixable with the field circus manual and a $50 spare part.) HTH,
>
I wonder if Mac does factory refurbs. I'll have to check into that. :-)
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