Obviously, Even 5 years back laptops were rare, and costly. The drastic cutting down of the price naturally explains the shoddy quality of the hardware of most laptops. Doesnt matter which brand you get, they are all exactly the same these days.
PS: Im typing this from a 2 year old acer laptop with a MTBC (Mean Time between crash) of 10 minutes because of bad RAM. I cant open the case because the power-cord broke after a year and i have fixed it to the laptop and cant move the laptop an inch now. On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Ramnarayan. K <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > This is a kind of OT post - following some of the discussion on a > suitable laptop that some people were searching for. > > I too have been searching for a good laptop for some friends (one that > works well with Linux and is decently new technology to last a few > years). > > The laptop i am using is a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600. Its a Pentium > III with 376 MB Ram with a 20 GB HD - triple booting Ubuntu 7.04 and > Windows XP (and 2000). > > On this laptop everything works - its about 8-9 years old. What does > not work is the battery - which maintains charge for about 2 minutes. > > But hardware wise everything works - as does all the software i need - > its a bit slow and the RAM is always fully used. > > At the same time i also have a Lenovo Thinkpad t 60 - dual core , 1.5 > GB RAM, 80 GB HD etc etc. That too is running Ubuntu 7.04 and dual > booting windows. This has an ATI X1300 graphics card and has just been > under some warranty repairs of keyboard and touch pad and lcd screen > replacement. On this everything works except the compfix 3 d effects - > i tried installing the restricted drivers but this advanced laptop > refuses to budgeand its a pain trying to get graphics to work well, > invariably there is some problem with > > At the same time a celeron desktop and a celeron gateway laptop both > run compfiz cube and wobbly windows beautifully. > > Ok back to my theory which is that the current crop of laptops from > most of the companies seem to have a lifespan of just a few years - > seemingly till a few months after warranty (about 3 years) and this is > because companies are not focusing on longevity of their machines > because they want people to buy their latest machines. At the same > time lots of us try and get the latest and the bestest (which we can > afford) precisely to avoid having to replace early, in fact trying to > be future ready . > > So what do you folk think. > > The next part is not so much theory as much as an attempted solution - > i.e to invest in a top of the line laptop but a cheaper low end > current model and plan for replacement in about 2 - 3 years. And > invest in peripherals / accessories that do some of the jobs we might > expect a high end laptop to do (like a wacom tablet instead of a > tablet laptop) > > looking forward to what you folks think > > ram > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
