A good friend of mine works providing on site service for IBM, Dell and Toshiba. According to him, Dells are lousy pieces of crap (I agree, owned one), Toshiba Satellites are even worst (Tecras are ok), and IBMs are the best built machines in the world (biased?)
Me, I've been using IBMs since my sad incident with Dell (had it fixed 3 times in less than 6 months, that's how I met this guy). I first had a Thinkpad T30, and now a T40. My T40 has been running without rebooting for more than a month right now, last time I rebooted was due to some software install. There's an old saying in the IT world, noone has ever been fired for recommending IBM
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