>Not to try too much to lower expectations, but the anecdotes I hear
>about laptops are generally negative. The guy who installed some new
>financial s/w on my office PC said he's gone thru 3 laptops in less than
>2 yrs and that's generally the experience of the folks HE talks to.
>Their s/w runs ONLY on Windoze, so he's talking about the Dells, IBMs,
>Compaqs, etc.
>
>I've had a bit better luck w/ my 2400, but that's all that I think that
>it is. We're all living on borrowed time.
Indeed. I have been working as a network manager for 10 years and my
rule of thumb is that laptops cost 2x and have a useful life of about
1/3rd that of a desktop machine. PowerBooks seem to beat that average
a bit, but not by too much.
Frequently in a corporate environment a laptop is nothing more than a
status symbol anyway. =)
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