Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/07/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Same here. I have owned almost nothing but laptops for many, many years. My powerbook has to be the top of the heap in terms of reliability and toughness, with a fujitsu coming in second. Both are head and shoulders over all the others I have had. Desktops are useless to me, unless I rig up straps to carry it on my back from job to job. Dave On 7/29/05, Philippe Orlent <philippe.orlent@pandora.be> wrote: > My PowerBook is a workhorse that I drag everywhere. It fell two times to > the > ground on its corner, once while in sleep mode, once in off mode. And I'm > still typing this while downloading stuff over the net. > > > > From: Frank Filippone <red735i@earthlink.net> > > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > > Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 11:21:51 -0700 > > To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > > Subject: RE: [Leica] Dell Bashing Dells from Hell > > > > ALL portables, laptops, or whatever you call them are made to a very > > different reliability standard than desk tops. They use more fragile > > PCB, > > drives, and fans that are insufficient to cool the things. They just > > are > > not as reliable, and the fact that you carry them from place to place > > makes > > them even less reliable. > > > > Did you know that most laptops are made by a few Taiwanese companies, and > > private labeled? > > > > Buy a desktop if you have the opportunity, buy a laptop if you must, and > > I > > do mean MUST. > > > > Frank Filippone > > red735i@earthlink.net > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Leica Users Group. > > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >