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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: 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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