Harlan, No matter which OS you plan to use on it, the MacBook Air family are just about the best consumer laptops available, in terms of fit and finish or reliability. While I live in Mac OS X, I have run Linux (and windows) on several versions of them without issue. On Saturday, May 10, 2014, Harlan H. Bloom <harlan at bloomenterprises.org> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > I hope your weekend is going good, despite more rain tonight. Also, > please wish a Happy Mother's Day to all the Moms in your life. > > Yes, i do have a real question. :) > > We are looking to replace my wife's laptop in the near future and are > wondering what are the best consumer-class laptops on the market right > now. I am not talking about the business product lines, but the product > lines generally made for home use. We're more concerned with hardware > problems than software environments or operating systems. It's getting > more difficult to replace fans in laptops as I have less time these days. > I've replaced fans in two computers in the past three years; the first fan > I replaced is failing again. > > I realize this is off-topic. Yes, I do run Linux on my computers, and > watch this list regularly even if I don't often comment on the topics. > > Thank you very much for your help, time and attention! > > Harlan... > -- (\(\ ( -.-) Kris Browne o_(")(") kris.browne at gmail.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140511/300746aa/attachment.html>