From: "Gary Wiltshire" 

On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 09:04:45 -0500, Dave Ings  wrote:

> What other brand(s)?
>
> Maybe I've been lucky, but in about eight years of using laptops I've
> never
> had a problem - including once dropping the darn thing 3 feet onto a hard
> floor, and several falls onto carpeted floors.. And they've been
> schlepped
> all over North & South America and Europe. All ThinkPads.

Austins and Dells.  Ironically the most rugged I've had was the old
DOS-powered Tandy with the CGA blue and white screen and 8088 (actuall V30,
I think - 80188 equivalent?) years ago.

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Gary Wiltshire

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