[Discuss] My HP Pavilion's HD bit the dust and it is 13 years old, so instead of replacing the disk again, I would like a new laptop. But I would like to pay <$300. I do not expect the best or the biggest. I have been told that some computers do not l

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My ThinkPad T43 (IBM-logo'd, but references it was manufactured by 
Lenovo on the bottom) is still going. Its BIOS is from 2005 and is 
happily running Fedora today.


On 05/31/2015 03:58 PM, Steve Litt wrote:
> Is it my imagination, or are 8 year old laptops much more physically
> robust than their modern counterparts? I have two laptops from 2006
> that are still humming along with Lubuntu, while most of my
> later-purchased laptops physically fell apart.
>
> Of course, the later purchased ones were used by my kids. But the 2006
> ones were visibly built like tanks.
>
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