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

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: 2, Informative) by goody on Saturday April 05 2014, @08:16PM

    by goody (2135) on Saturday April 05 2014, @08:16PM (#26809)

    I have both a MacBook Air and a MacBook Pro. They're both the best laptops I've ever had, both from an OS and physical hardware standpoint. I used to think Apple hardware was too expensive and was a ripoff, until I started using one.

    Last year I got a Lenovo Ideapad. I'm a bit disappointed with it. The keyboard flexes and the display is mediocre. The touchpad requires way too much force to click. The MacBooks make it look like a clunker.

    On the Macbook Pro I run Linux and Windows 7 in VirtualBox VMs, often running both simultaneously. It's hard to tell they're not running natively when going full screen.

    It's hard for me to get excited about any Wintel laptop these days after using Macs, even laptops running Linux.

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  • (Score: 1) by kc99 on Saturday April 05 2014, @11:03PM

    by kc99 (1039) Subscriber Badge on Saturday April 05 2014, @11:03PM (#26859)

    I used to think Apple hardware was too expensive and was a ripoff, until I started using one.

    Ditto. After buying my first Mac in 2010, I have transitioned to an all-Apple ecosystem. I've never been more content...due in large extent to the quality of the hardware. This, coming from a previous die-hard Linux user.

  • (Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday April 06 2014, @05:43AM

    by Tork (3914) Subscriber Badge on Sunday April 06 2014, @05:43AM (#26969)
    One of the things aobut this line of laptops that never seems to get mentioned is that the Apple power brick is very small. Also, it's the same one they use on their entire product line. At work if I need to borrow a power plug there's like 5 people ready to hand me one. I've got 3 different Dell, 2 Toshiba, and a Compaq power brick sitting in a box somewhere that'll never ever see the light of day again. Oh... hah... a friend of mine got a gaming laptop. He wanted something really powerful yadda yadda yadda. I kid you not, the power brick on it was bigger than the one for the XBOX 360. He had to buy a new laptop bag to accommodate it. Yikes!
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