No Ethernet is kind of a killer for me. I accepted no serial port and using a USB dongle, because serial is a dinosaur anyway. And I even accept that laptops typically have no CD/DVD drives anymore, that can be solved with USB flash drives. But everything we do is Ethernet, and any kind of adapter or dongle doesn’t cut it, too easy to get lost or broken. And we need the ability to test a customer’s Internet directly to a wired PC and prove once and for all whether their Internet sucks or their home network sucks.
Luckily our other requirements are flexible enough that we can still find laptops with an Ethernet port. Even if you need a thin “ultrabook” style laptop, I’ve seen those with Ethernet ports that flip down a little, so it can be done. From: Ryan Ray Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 11:10 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] OT: Best laptop for battery and price I agree with you Justin. I've had Macbooks now going back about 8 years. I feel like they are the best laptop on the market hands down. No ethernet is annoying cause you have to carry around a thunderbolt adapter but other than that I have no complaints.. On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 6:56 AM, Justin Wilson - MTIN <[email protected]> wrote: Many folks look at the Apple line as expensive. I have a 2008 Macbook pro that has been my daily laptop since I bought it. Has been at tower sites, etc. Mine is a full size 15” MacBook Pro. If you are looking for a field laptop I would suggest a macbook air. Not to get in a “holy war” but I am running the latest Operating system on a computer almost 8 years old. In all fairness it has had a motherboard swap because the keyboard would no longer work. A replacement keyboard did not do the trick so I took it in and the diagnosis had faults on the board. For $400 I sent it back to Apple and they replaced the motherboard, replaced my failing DVD drive, replaced the top case, and something else (can’t remember). I run VMware fusion for Windows stuff. A mac isn’t for everyone. You have to put forth effort to learn it, just like anything else. Justin Wilson [email protected] --- http://www.mtin.net Owner/CEO xISP Solutions- Consulting – Data Centers - Bandwidth http://www.midwest-ix.com COO/Chairman Internet Exchange - Peering - Distributed Fabric On Nov 2, 2015, at 9:44 AM, D. Ryan Spott <[email protected]> wrote: +1 and the location manager to flip between ip settings is the best. TCO is so low it's not even funny. ryan -- D. Ryan Spott | NGC457, llc broadband | telco | colo | communities PO Box 1734 Sultan, WA 98294 425-939-0047 On Oct 31, 2015, at 12:10, Sean Heskett <[email protected]> wrote: We use MacBook Pro. We still have one in service from 2009 ;) On Friday, October 30, 2015, Jay Weekley <[email protected]> wrote: Looks like it's time for a new field piece. I'm looking for a smallish netbook/laptop with an ethernet port but more importantly I need a good battery.
