Toshibas vs TPads

staggered into the Black Sun and said:

Why? It's extremely useful for questions and answers of this type to be archived with DejaGoogle.

"Consider the source". Where'd you hear that from?

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A year? It's more like 6 months for most things. If you can deal with it, get a manufacturer-refurbished laptop--you get more laptop for your money. Thinkpads are fairly well-supported under Linux and the build quality of Thinkpads is pretty good. I've owned 3 refurbished Thinkpads and had only 2 hardware problems with them (broken CD-ROM drive on a 600X, fan failed on an A22p.) Fixing the broken CD-ROM would've been easy, but I didn't want to spend the $150 for a replacement. Fixing the fan was easy once I had the $55 part and the manual.

IBM makes their Field Circus manuals for their laptops available in PDF form on one corner of their website. With these manuals, some you can replace a lot of failing parts without paying the Field Circus Monkeys too much money and waiting weeks. I don't know whether Toshiba does the same thing, but if they don't, that's a point in IBM's favor.

Use something that's a few months more recent than your laptop's build date; that tends to minimize problems.

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