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I've been using Thinkpads since the mid-90s. I've tried a Toshiba once and learned my lesson to never leave the Thinkpad. I've worked on Dells before and they're a step better than Toshiba. But Thinkpads by far are the best I've ever seen. They're built very well.
Right now, I have a Thinkpad W540 (the workstation version). I've been eyeing the new P70s that Lenovo just introduced. They're "nasty" powerful.
My current W540 has 1TB of SSD and 32GBytes of RAM set up with three monitors (I tried four, but that pushed the video card too hard). I work on various VMWare instances for coding as I still have to support legacy software (I, unfortunately, need Windows XP). I also develop iOS mobile apps, so I have a VMWare VM for Maverick OS.
I've upgraded to Windows 10 and actually like it. Especially, since I purchased the $5.00 Stardock Start10 app that converts Windows 10 into a Windows 7 look and feel. This allowed for a non-existent transition.
I do have a Surface Pro which I set up with a development environment (Visual Studio 2015 and all the bells) so that whenever I travel, I have something lightweight to fix any problems that come up and people are in a panic. I can at least make fixes on the Surface and keep things going. It isn't something I would code with on a daily basis.
I like the fact I'm mobile with a laptop. I can take it when I go see my customers and demo my latest software for their feedback.
It's really the way to go.
Enjoy!
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Hi RealTodd,
Why waste your money on a MAC????
Acer makes nice cheap laptops for less than 1/4 the price of a MacBook.
Upgrade HD to a SSD and away you go. Buy two so you have a backup and you are still way cheaper than the MAC. I models are updated so often why spend a fortune? That's my 2 cents worth from 28 years of experience with computer hardware.
mike
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After 37 years of dealing with hardware, I would say, though cliche, that you get what you pay for. Apple quality is quite superb: good screen, well machined, nice battery life. It *IS* a little overpriced, but not as much as most believe. A person can "get by" with a cheap chunk of plastic; however, better hardware improves one's sense of self worth. My experience is that developers that feel better about themselves will produce better code; those "on the cheap" create code that is "adequate".
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I believe I understand what you are saying but I think it is illusion. Not really much difference inside in this day and age. All mass produced. From what I've seen inside you are mainly paying for perceived prestige and marketing. I haven't found Apple products any more reliable. Sometimes even less - power supplies, video chips, etc. giving up the ghost. If the specs are what you need go for it but brands and price alone mean nothing. As in smoke and mirrors.
I remember in the old days when people went on about reliable hard drives and I looked at my large stack of crashed drives...pretty much equal numbers of all brands. Much more like slot machines at the casino. I've done a lot of data recovery over the years. Kept some drives going while blowing a fan over ice to cool it.
My $395 on sale Acer laptop is chugging along fine after 15 months. If you are happy with what you have that's good. My sense of worth does not depend upon some piece of hardware but rather on what I have done.
Best to all, Mike
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Wizard of Id[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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from the prying eyes of the FBI.
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I was in traffic passing the stadium while the Offaly / London gaelic football match was in progress on Saturday.
A man and his five year old son were walking by at the same time, when the match ball came over the stadium wall, bounced twice near them and was caught expertly by the little boy. Both father and son continued walking with junior clutching the ball as if he'd had it all along.
Good job they have spares at these things!
Ger
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Ger Hayden wrote: Offaly 0-17, London 1-07
So who won? 
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The little boy certainly did.
As for the game itself, Offaly. The scores to the left of the "-" are conventional goals, but they didn't score any. The score to the right is a point which comes from a shot over the bar, similar to a Rugby drop goal. Three of them equate to a conventional goal. So with everything converted to points the score becomes 17 to 10...
Ger
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Offaly (17 - 10 = a goal is worth 3 points)
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Of course. They are, after all, Offaly good at the game!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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200 subs
503,814 views!
1,057,668 minutes watched
That is a lot of bored people. 
Ok, so it is no record breaker.......but not bad for a channel that has hardly any content and isn't really targeting anything!
Still, $15/month is $15/month in any man's pocket! 
I expect once I load up a couple of my C63 videos I found on my harddisk from 4 years ago, that might generate a few more views and $'s.
I watched them before I came offshore and hearing the noise again put a smile back on my face! I miss that car... 
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Congrats, I can feel the love from here. 
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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I just got an email from some "administration".
It was sent to Sam, Sander, Sander, Sandra, Sanne...
And it was completely empty. No subject, no body, no attachment.
I liked it better when spam messages promised me gifts from princes and inheritances from unknown aunts
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Well if you didn't keep changing your name so often they wouldn't get so confused!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I went from my previous name to Sander Rossel, that's an average of once every 5.5 years 
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Spammers are easy to confuse!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Well it got you to log in to CP and post a comment, didn't it? Clever, them hamsters! 
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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But where are Sam, that other Sander, Sandra, and Sanne? 
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It was probably a single-pixel white .tif image with a payload in one of the tags and taking advantage of some image display vulnerability in the email program or graphics library...now your system is pwnd.
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