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OSX is great, but you can get a really powerful new Thinkpad with SUSE enterprise preinstalled for a good price. An effectively maxed out Thinkpad with 4 gigs o
by rms 19y ago
OSX is great, but you can get a really powerful new Thinkpad with SUSE enterprise preinstalled for a good price. An effectively maxed out Thinkpad with 4 gigs of RAM and discrete graphics is $1200.
I've been using a Thinkpad X41 tablet as my laptop for a while. Nothing important has broken, but some non reinforced plastic has broken/is breaking off, like the door to the PC card slot. The build quality is still better than all other Windows laptops, which is really sad.
- rms 19y agoI should probably note that most people seem to treat their laptops better than I do. I've dropped it several times, splashed it with liquids, etc. So it's holding together pretty well, all things considered. It's old enough that it is still branded IBM, it may be true that the build quality has gotten worse over time.