> > > Suggestions on an alternative laptop? Keys are the first requirement > (along with Linux, of course.) And that Dell mentioned here a while ago > with a non-replaceable battery seems to me to be a bit stupid. But maybe I > can be convinced otherwise with suitable arguments. > > Thanks, > > -Denis > > I've been very happily running various Linux distros: Debian, Ubuntu, > Fedora on old , refurbished and new IBM & Lenovo Thinkpads for about a > decade now. Very happily means I've never considered using any other > hardware platform. It just works and works well and the hardware is > bomb-proof.
I've replaced the fan when the bearing got noisy, I've replaced at 3 least 4 keyboards, hard drive, cd-rom, batteries, Keith L. has replace the screens with higher resolution ones. Free Geek usually has piles of "as-is" Thinkpads for parts and ThinkWiKi is a really great community resource. "5,586 active users <http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Special:ListUsers> have registered since Sep. 2004 and created 1,332 articles (54,492 page edits so far)." So many good reasons! -- Mike _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
