> In my experience… a computer that is used daily costs about $300-$400 > per year of service. $300-$400/year of service?! I'm currently running a 4+ year old Dell that cost $500 new, and haven't put in a dime to repair it. It gets at least 4-5 hours of use per day. I usually keep computers around 5-6 years, and the only repairs I've ever had to do were replacing a keyboard (on a ThinkPad) and a backlight (on an older Dell). > For the PC-compatible laptops, who makes the most reliable > consumer-class systems? Which of their product lines are more > reliable? I think I'm going to have to suggest ThinkPads just because the repairs are so easy to do. It's also one of the few laptops on the market available without a glossy screen (if that is important to her). It also seems much better put together than the Dells I've had. > Mostly she uses her computer for web browsing, email, word processing > and spreadsheets. She would like something faster than she has right > now, or at least better response times. Her current computer has an > AMD Turion 64 X2 TL-60 2.0 GHz cpu, 3GB RAM. Thanks for reminding me how much I love Bodhi/E17. ;) -Max -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 198 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20140512/9b04fff0/attachment-0001.pgp>