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If I could only find a laptop vendor that could replicate the build quality of my MBP, I'd be in.

• fmoralesc 15y ago
  This might be of some help: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MactelSupportTeam/CommunityHelpPages https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MactelSupportTeam/CommunityHelpPages (I know it's not really what you asked, but still).
• bryanlarsen 15y ago
  Which MBP do you have? The original MBP's have high failure rates. Pretty much any "business-class" laptop would have been more reliable. The unibody MBP's are much better, though. Reviews are indicating that the ASUS Zenbook has a similar build quality and a MBA design aesthetic. Of course, there are also specialty laptops like the Panasonic Toughbook that are designed to withstand abuse.
  • phaus 15y ago
    They may be better now, but I used to run into toughbooks all the time in the Army. Basically they were just designed as a way to scam the government out of 5k per machine. They broke more often than anything else we had, including gateways. I've owned an asus republic of gamers laptop and an eee slate. Both of them are very well built.
    • commandar 15y ago
      Old school Toughbooks were tanks. I had both a CF47 and CF61 way back when and they were indestructable. Of course, those were old P1 era machines. I know I've seen some Toughbooks that didn't really look any more rugged than regular consumer stuff, so maybe that's what you were dealing with? EDIT: I will add that I did do some repairs on newish Toughbooks owned by the Army maybe 3-4 years ago. The big plus with them is that they were repairable; all the ports were on separate daughterboards so they could be easily replaced when broken, whereas they're soldered directly to the main board in more typical laptops.