hello, i've been using lenovo laptops for the past 4 years and have faced a whole lot of problems, vis-a-vis heating, disk performance and battery life; * heating: temperatures reach 70 deg centigrade in less than 5 minutes, * disk performance: even untaring a compressed file takes too long, * battery: doesn't last for more than 1.5 hours.
i don't do anything extra-ordinary, and use the default install options. i don't have the guts to work on the bleeding edge by constantly keeping my system updated / building from source. my primary usage is for software development using c89. i develop small tools which work well together. :) given the above, i'm fed up with the whole laptop usage scenario, and wish to head back to a workstation, just don't know which to go for. can anyone please advise on a good workstation configuration? best.
