[nycbug-talk] OT: Laptop is dead - what am I going to do?

[Marc Spitzer]

Well IBM is out of the laptop bussness, you might want to look at the
eeepc 1000, or some others in the same class Levio ideapads come to
mind, sub $500 notebooks for light duty.

marc

On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 9:25 PM,  <matt at atopia.net> wrote:
> Many of you have responded off list with advice on how to fix my existing machine.  While I don't plan on throwing it out or giving up on it, I do really think it is time for a new laptop.  I have only 3 requirements - that it run freebsd, its light in weight but durable (I carry it everywhere), and it has incredibly long battery life.
>
> I don't use my laptop for anything that isn't business related. Most of the time I open up a few ssh sessions and a web browser and that's it.... So high power and high video card output, etc isn't so important.
>
> Any suggestions?  Is IBM still the way to go?
>
> Thanks!
> Thanks all!
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