Look at Thinkpads. Build quality is excellent, and better than Apple's. The hardware is well supported in Linux, and the lots of hackers use them, so help is al

Look at Thinkpads. Build quality is excellent, and better than Apple's. The hardware is well supported in Linux, and the lots of hackers use them, so help is always a Google search away. They are mostly fugly though (industrial design, built like a tank, looks like one)