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on Saturday April 05 2014, @03:21PM
from the moore's-law-still-trucks-ahead dept.
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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I'm mentally OVERDRAWN! What's that SIGNPOST up ahead? Where's ROD
STERLING when you really need him?
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Sunday April 06 2014, @03:32AM
"forget screws entirely if they were internal;"
Somebody got me with that recently. I'm standing at a 250 ton injection molding press, listening to the tech tell me about how screwed up the control screen is. I troubleshoot a little bit, and decide that just maybe a ribbon cable might be loose or something. I dismount the panel, a matter of removing 4 1/4-20 nuts from behind. I pull the panel outward, and the control panel literally flies in three different directions. Of course, I caught and held the central, heaviest part, but the screen fell onto the work table, and tore the connecting ribbon in two.
Gather up all the pieces, to discover that out of fifteen internal screws, only five are present. The protruding plastic bits that the screws were supposed to screw into were simply gone. Took the damned thing to my shop, and played around for nearly two hours before I had a solidly assembled control panel ready to be remounted.
I HATE stupid lazy shits who can do this kind of work!
http://www.rimsoft.bg/int/downloads/manuals/Van%20 Dorn%20OEM.pdf [rimsoft.bg] Like most literature, this isn't especially informative, but it gives you a vague idea what I was looking at.