[Leaplist] Laptop Hardware Advice

[Phil Barnett]

On Friday 25 April 2008 09:18:41 am Todd Davenport wrote:
> OK, I have two laptops that I've bought in the last
> two years, both on sale and for cheap.  A Dell
> Inspiron 1100 and a Gateway MX series.  I think I've
> learned my lesson, though, about buying laptops on the
> cheap.  Neither of them lasted a year.  The Dell needs
> a new hard drive and the Gateway's power socket is
> hosed (I've had it re-soldered twice by a tech but it
> keeps breaking again).

You need to epoxy the connector to the board after the resolder.

> So my wife (who is actually the primary laptop user)
> is tired of this and told me to spend the money and
> get her a laptop that isn't going to break.  Aside
> from a Panasonic Toughbook, I'm thinking Mac of
> course.  But now I'm exited because if I can fix the
> two broken laptops I can have more Linux boxen and
> start doing neat things on my home lan...streaming
> media server, web dev/test box, etc.

My suggestion for a very tough laptop is the IBM (now Lenovo) T-60 series.

Linux Mint finds everything and it just works. Very tough and I've never seen 
one break the power connector.

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