[PLUG] Probably will return my system 76 Gazelle

[Leander S. Harding]

I'll third the nigh-invulnerability of ThinkPads. My main personal
machine is a T400 that's been through absolute hell, was used when I
bought it, and in the past four years has needed only a harddrive
(after the stock one succumbed to, ahem, an out-of-operating-spec
instantaneous acceleration), a screen (after being crushed by the
motorized seat of my BMW, and the casing itself survived unscathed),
and a replacement trackpad assembly (because the mouse button that
took the brunt of the crushing force in the screen incident eventually
became unreliable after several months).

Also the keyboard is amazing and there's an actual third mouse button
and it's easier to perform physical repairs on than most desktops.

I will say though that I'm firmly in the camp that there's been a
steady decline in build quality and keyboard feel over the years. I
had a W520 an employer gave me for a while and it didn't seem
discernably better than an average consumer laptop.

-Leander

On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 12:40 PM, Denis Heidtmann
<denis.heidtmann at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 4, 2016 at 5:53 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 3 May 2016, Denis Heidtmann wrote:
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Denis,
>> ...
>>    Now, another suggestion for your consideration. A few years ago I bought
>> my sister a Compaq Presario CQ62 laptop (15" screen, 64-bit AMD CPU, 2G
>> RAM,
>> etc.) She's no longer able to see well enough to use it and returned it to
>> me since she's sold her house and  moving to in independent living
>> facility.
>> It has a virus-infected win7 on it and is waiting for me to install
>> Slackware-14.1 (or, I might just wait until 14.2 is out and install that).
>> Since I don't need a third laptop sitting here I'd consider selling it.
>> Might this meet your needs? It ain't the System76, but it's in good
>> condition.
>>
>> Rich
>
>
> Rich,
>
> Thanks for the offer, but I think I want something a little more modern.
> On the 76 I got fond of the performance provided by the ssd.  Snappy
> response  to launching applications is habit forming.  I have a virtually
> new 2.5" 128G SSD that my son  gave me.  It would be nice to put it into
> service.
>
> -Denis
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