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WTF are you smoking? My Lenovo T61 has two batteries (9 cell+ultrabay). I get 8 hours. It's also 5 years old and just doesn't break - it's been dropped, had dr

by meaty 14y ago

WTF are you smoking? My Lenovo T61 has two batteries (9 cell+ultrabay). I get 8 hours. It's also 5 years old and just doesn't break - it's been dropped, had drinks in it, thrown a couple of times, used in the rain. Plus you could beat an elephant to death with it. The whole thing is build like Wolverine out of the X-Men. Look at the picture - the grey bits are titanium: http://www.lenovo.com/shop/americas/content/img_lib/products/splitter/notebooks/ThinkPad/T-Series/gallery/t-6L_080508.jpg http://www.lenovo.com/shop/americas/content/img_lib/products... Compared to my 2010 Macbook Pro which caught fire after 5 months, lasted about 3 hours on battery and had a new logic board after 4 weeks...

guard-of-terra 14y ago
I don't care about your T61. Not the slightest. But when I come to the shop I see a long line of laptops; all with Windows 7 or 8, all made of ugly plastic, all with expected battery life under two hours, all bulky and all costing 3X the netbook price and climbing. That's what gets sold to people and that is what I can't imagine anyone wanting to buy. Yes, another thing I don't care about is comics you try to illustrate your post with.
- meaty 14y ago
  Yeah that's because it's what people want to pay i.e. not much. As for a NetBook - have you ever used one to do something serious on? Absolute joke. The things are the worst thing on the planet. As for my T61, I bought it for half the price of a new netbook when it was 3 years old... (well actually I bought two so that I can just grab the other one in a complete failure scenario). It's not a comic - it's an engineering cross section. As for looks, I don't give a shit what it looks like or if it's heavy or whatever - I want something that works and doesn't fall to bits after 5 minutes and is repairable and replaceable if it does. Why? Because it pays the bills and can be trusted.
  - guard-of-terra 14y ago
    If 3X the netbook price is not much then what's much? Why pay a magnitude more for a good laptop if you can get ten netbooks for that price? I mean, TEN damn things. Depends on what do you consider serious. If you want to watch a movie in the airport, edit some text on the go or take some casual game break - the netbook is ideal. They work as advertised. And you're funny :) For the heavyweight tasks I still prefer desktop. Built according to a spec I assembled.
    - meaty 14y ago
      I'd rather have one piece of gold than ten turds.

by meaty 14y ago

guard-of-terra 14y ago

I don't care about your T61. Not the slightest. But when I come to the shop I see a long line of laptops; all with Windows 7 or 8, all made of ugly plastic, all with expected battery life under two hours, all bulky and all costing 3X the netbook price and climbing. That's what gets sold to people and that is what I can't imagine anyone wanting to buy. Yes, another thing I don't care about is comics you try to illustrate your post with.

meaty 14y ago
Yeah that's because it's what people want to pay i.e. not much. As for a NetBook - have you ever used one to do something serious on? Absolute joke. The things are the worst thing on the planet. As for my T61, I bought it for half the price of a new netbook when it was 3 years old... (well actually I bought two so that I can just grab the other one in a complete failure scenario). It's not a comic - it's an engineering cross section. As for looks, I don't give a shit what it looks like or if it's heavy or whatever - I want something that works and doesn't fall to bits after 5 minutes and is repairable and replaceable if it does. Why? Because it pays the bills and can be trusted.
- guard-of-terra 14y ago
  If 3X the netbook price is not much then what's much? Why pay a magnitude more for a good laptop if you can get ten netbooks for that price? I mean, TEN damn things. Depends on what do you consider serious. If you want to watch a movie in the airport, edit some text on the go or take some casual game break - the netbook is ideal. They work as advertised. And you're funny :) For the heavyweight tasks I still prefer desktop. Built according to a spec I assembled.
  - meaty 14y ago
    I'd rather have one piece of gold than ten turds.