You are hung up on components rather than reliability and performance during actual use.
The new Macbooks are not nearly up to the reliability and pefformance of older Macs. They do not provide adequate cooling... and based on our shop's experience, they need a lot of work early on... But, of course, this is a Thinkpad site... not a Apple MacIntosh site. You should go to a Mac site for the kinds of qualified opinions you need. No Mac owner will tell you the truth, because they cannot handle the truth. It is sort of like the old Volkswagen beetles which broke down all the time and needed new valve jobs every 40,000, and were dangerous as hell.. but nobody would give up theirs. If you want performance and reliability, get a well cared for Thinkpad T-42, and put 2 G B of RAM and a Seagate EIDE 120 GB or 160 GB hard drive in it... and make sure it has a DVD/RW. Or if you need new, there are new models of the Lenovo Thinkpad that outperform every other laptop so far. The Thinkpad will still be around when all the Macbook owners have spent $600 keeping theirs running. It just won't be scratched up silver. In our experience, Thinkpad people are never happy switching to a MacBook, any more than a Macbook person is happily switched to a Thinkpad. It's like switching from a Beetle to a Mercedes, or from a Mercedes to a Beetle. RayBay ________ Perfection is unattainable. .. ... .... ..... ...... ....... Cicero 106 BC On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 8:24 AM, John Toliver <[email protected]>wrote: > I am probably going to have to upgrade my laptop in the near future. > I use a Thinkpad T23 with 1GB ram, 40GB HDD, a 1.13 GHz processor and > Windows XP. > > I don't really want to upgrade as most of the reviews I've seen don't > speak too highly of the thinkpad workmanship these days. What I want > is a solid construction laptop (no flexing or creasing with pressure) > with a core 2 duo and at least a 1GB of ram and at least a 100GB HDD. > > I looked at the macbooks with the new unibody construction but I've > heard they tend to stop powering on after you've had them for a few > months. I like the idea of the mac but I think the quality has gone > down in recent years. The problem is I think the same thing has > happened to Thinkpads when they became lenovo made. > > Does anyone have any personal experience with the newer brands. I'm > looking for essentially what I have now in the T23 just with a faster > processor and more memory and storage space. > > Alternatively, I was going to spring for a 60GB SSD and a dvd burner > in this T23 and see if the HDD upgrade would make a difference in > enough to stall this decision. > > How fast are the SSD's and do they live as long as the conventional > drives. How do you all like them? > > Thanks in advance for any feedback, > > -- > I've discovered the key to success is to never give up. You either > learn the right way, or you run out of ways to do it wrong. A win/win > situation! > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
