-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bret Baptist wrote: > My HP NC6000 went to Iraq with me in a backpack. Suffered uncounted numbers > of drops, bumps, and jars. My wife still uses it daily to do CAD work. > > You see anecdotal evidence is not absolute. > > > Bret. Attempting to provide generalized advice from a very small sample really can't tell you anything. I've owned three dodges, they all had horrific reliability problems. Someone else that has owned a dodge may tell me they are the most reliable car they've ever owned. What does that tell anyone else? At best it tells you that I've had three unreliable dodges, it's not until one looks at the big picture that you can draw conclusions. When it comes to manufactured products you can't make assertions about the general case from personal experience. At low sample rates you can get a perfectly fine individual item from the worst design ever, or you can get a pile of junk from a superstellar design. This gets compounded by the ability of people to find others who affirm their assertions. Go around saying X is junk and you'll quickly find people who agree with you. Ditto if you claim it's the best thing ever. - -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel PGP: 8A48 EF36 5E9F 4EDA 5ABC 11B4 26F9 01F1 27AF AECB -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) iEYEARECAAYFAklmM50ACgkQJvkB8SevrstTXwCbBzqTzfTdWD7wjcfbol+JD4Hu P1AAmwfx5mY7kds/vCRPcLbdW+bGqARw =f3Ci -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----