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...
>


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