Has Lenovo created the “perfect” laptop?

[snessiram]

@qviri: If I'm right, from the second review of the macbooks, the adapter was made stronger. But besides that I believe the connectors break because people ALWAYS use the cable to disconnect the adapter, while they shouldn't.

[dr_st]

Yesterday, when I hooked up my HP nc2400 to a Dell 2007WFP via VGA, I got a fuzzy image. I was actually happy about that because I thought I had finally encountered the VGA problem that many people had been bitching about.

That kind of thing makes you happy?

[pianowizard]

That kind of thing makes you happy?

Yeah, because I thought I finally understood what people were talking about.

[loches]

"Panny"? Wow.

[FragrantHead]

I owned a Panasonic CF-62 for three years. Admittedly this was before they had the whole Toughbook idea, but featured some of the same concepts, such as completely rigid mag-alloy lid and rubber/gel-mounted hard disk. By the end of it's life the power socket failed intermittently, the keyboard started falling apart and the plastic screen surround fractured in multiple places. The hard disk developed a fault despite the shock-mount and eventually the CPU failed despite some very noisy cooling. By contrast I am writing this on a 5-year old no-less used Thinkpad T30 and it's got no such issues. We also sell some of the smaller Toughbooks in our business, ones that work as a convertible tablet with a 12" touch-screen. While they're fine in that capacity, the keyboard on them is awful in terms of size of the keys and because they re-arranged the cursor keys side by side, rather than the inverted T shape. That, to me, makes it pretty much unusable, much unlike a colleague's X-series.