We have an 5+ yr old Asus notebook running Ubuntu 8.04 here at the office. It
hasn't been repaired since. Most of the notebooks we have in the 3-5 yr old
range are Acer (Acer, emachines, and a few Gateway-brand units) -- We've had a
few of these unit' casings replaced though.
--- mike t.
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From: "jgotan...@gmail.com" <jgotan...@gmail.com>
To: Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List
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Sent: Wednesday, 20 August 2014, 8:57
Subject: Re: [plug] Linux Laptops
On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 5:45 PM, Holden Hao <holden...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I run Slackware on all my TPs now v(X61, X200, and T420 at work) and despite
> some physical defects and weakening batteries, they still work nicely.
>
>
>The above is what I was expecting. They keep on running till you yourself
>retire them. That's what happened to my old HP NC4200. But HP took a dive
>and I am not sure they are back up yet. I am starting to notice HP laptops in
>stores but I am not sure if they figured things out already.
I'm currently using an HP Elitebook 840 G1 fully configured with Ubuntu LTS and
its pretty sweet.
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