[TriLUG] your favorite lowish cost thin laptop

[Jim]

On 01/18/2011 02:22 PM, Ron Kelley wrote:
> X2 on the Macbook.  I have owned a "few" laptops over the years, and, by far, my favorite is my MacBook Pro.  I run multiple Linux/Windows VMs using Fusion with no problem, the battery is great, and the screen is amazing.  In my opinion, the MacBook Pro is the most versatile laptop on the market.  It can run Mac, Linux, Windows, etc all on one piece of hardware.
>
> Unfortunately, it is not a lowish cost thin laptop...
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Ron
> rkelleyrtp at gmail.com
>
> On Jan 18, 2011, at 1:50 PM, Steve Pinkham wrote:
>
>> On 01/18/2011 01:40 PM, Cristóbal Palmer wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 18, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Joel J. Adamson
>>> <adamsonj at email.unc.edu>  wrote:
>>>> What the heck are you using your laptops for?
>>> Virtual machines for testing, especially build/deployment testing. I
>>> also tend to use VMs to sandbox some common activities (eg. banking)
>>> for security reasons.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>> Yeah, me too.
>>
>> Great screen, keyboard, and loads of memory is what I need in a laptop.
>> Battery life, processor power, and storage speed are nice also, but
>> it's all about the interfaces and the memory for me.
>>
>> I'm also a Thinkpad user.  I wanted the matte screen, excellent
>> keyboard, and touchpoint.  Also, the power connector is usually the
>> first thing to go on many laptops, and Lenovo has a replaceable jack
>> which is not soldered directly to the motherboards like many other
>> brands are.
>>
>> It's hard to go wrong with a Thinkpad or Macbook, they just seem better
>> engineered then most of what's out there.
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My Thinkpad runs Linux, Windows 7, and OS 10.6, though OS X does run 
noticeably slower under VirtualBox.