I can vouch for Thinkpads, durable, reliable, serviceable, Linux just works, great keyboard, touchpad 3x real buttons, Ethernet port, DisplayPort, parts are available and cheap, no nonsense good hardware.
Thinkpads had bad patch around Tx40 models 2-3 years ago - they went with plastic chassis and skipped real touchpad buttons, used single channel RAM, only 2x USB - thankfully they walked that back. I got T470 to daughter 3rd year in university a few months ago - fantastic, sturdy laptop. Samsung 960 NVMe SSDs are about 3-4x faster than SATA. Other brands probably 2x-ish. I bought the laptop with cheap HDD and tried both SATA and NVMe. I could not see real speed difference, beside synthetic tests like read/write to/from /dev/null/zero respectively - I ended up buying bigger SATA SSD rather than smaller/faster NVMe... Not sure what brand SSDs Lenovo puts in. Hope it helps, Tomas On Aug 23, 2017 5:56 PM, "Vedanta Teacher" <[email protected]> wrote: Everyone, My Dell Insperon 15.6" that I was going to use in school this September just died (the Motherboard no longer recognized the Hd). I need reliability & durability more than anything. I'll need it to last at least 1 year. I'll be going to school for Software Engineering & Embedded systems e.g. HTML, Perl, Unix, etc, etc. I was thinking about replacing it with a Lenovo ThinkPad T570: 15.6" display 32 GB DDR4 2133Mhz SoDIMM Ram For the hard drive they show : Intel 180GB SSD 2.5 SATA3,OPAL2.0 or 512 GB SSD OPAL2.0 PCle-NVMe (The 1 Tb version is $140 more.) Q: What is the difference between SATA3,OPAL2.0 & PCle-NVMe? As an OS I'll probably be running Linux Mint, I just don't have time to tinker with new operating bases at this point. Blessings, Paul W. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
