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Recommendation for a Good Laptop Computer

posted by Dopefish on Saturday April 05 2014, @03:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the moore's-law-still-trucks-ahead dept.

An anonymous coward writes:

Question for the lentils out there: What makes and models of laptops are good these days? Traditionally, you could just get an IBM ThinkPad if you were willing and able to pay extra for quality, but judging by reviews, they aren't as consistent as they used to be. A 'nice' laptop has to get a lot of things right: fast internals, sturdy case, quality keyboard, excellent battery life, and good heat management, to name a few. Are there any manufacturers that sell machines worth buying anymore, or do you have to compromise?

 
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  • (Score: 3, Informative) by Nerdfest on Saturday April 05 2014, @04:23PM

    by Nerdfest (80) on Saturday April 05 2014, @04:23PM (#26709)

    I think there's even somewhat decent Linux support for it these days. The problem is that when you buy one, Apple gets money and they've been a very bad entity for the future of computing.

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  • (Score: 1) by grub on Saturday April 05 2014, @05:23PM

    by grub (3668) on Saturday April 05 2014, @05:23PM (#26745)

    Considering it's Unix under the hood, anything you need to connect to other *nix machines is there or can be easily installed. OpenSSH, X11, VNC, etc.
    I've moved a bunch of my shell scripts over and most work with very minor mods. If you're a unix-head, they are great.

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  • (Score: 1) by HiThere on Saturday April 05 2014, @06:35PM

    by HiThere (866) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 05 2014, @06:35PM (#26774) Journal

    My problem with Apple, as with MS, is the EULA. I cannot agree to it. Back around 1998 I was quite pleased to have my wife use Apple...then there came this security upgrade with abusive changes in the license. I still have the computer, and there's some software that won't run on anything else. But it never touches the Internet.

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  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday April 06 2014, @05:39AM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 06 2014, @05:39AM (#26967)

    The problem is that when you buy one, Apple gets money and they've been a very bad entity for the future of computing.

    That 'bad for computing' company finally proved to the industry that laptop resolutions can be higher than 1920 by 1200. I've got work to do.

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