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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: 1) by Immerman on Saturday April 05 2014, @08:36PM

    by Immerman (3985) on Saturday April 05 2014, @08:36PM (#26814)

    Lets add an easily accessible fan (or intake filters) to the list too - unless you live in an industrial cleanroom you'll likely need to access that far more often than any other component in your laptop. Of course I'm not sure there are actually any laptops in existence that make it *easy* to reach the fan, but there are certainly some that make it so horribly difficult that you are tempted to replace it completely (the fan OR the laptop, depending) rather than just wiping off the built-up mung.

  • (Score: 2) by etherscythe on Saturday April 05 2014, @09:55PM

    by etherscythe (937) on Saturday April 05 2014, @09:55PM (#26839) Journal

    That's pretty much a lost cause for the average layman. Most times I just use an air compressor and blow through the exhaust vent on my clients' machines. A small can of compressed air could do a decent job. It's amazing how people don't think of notebooks as collecting dust.

    That said, if you could manage to locate a machine where the fan doesn't require a complete teardown, that would be amazing. But I've yet to see one other than the no-name or low-visibility brands (Averatec I think was the name), and none made more recently than maybe 10 years ago.

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