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To: MeDroogies who wrote (499)	5/20/2002 5:46:59 PM
From: BelowTheCrowd	Respond to of 4345

I'm surprised. I have an older 400MHz lattitude, and no problems in almost 3 years. I have a newer 1.1MHz Lattidue and no problems yet either. I've used them in two different businesses and haven't seen unusual failure rates, but I know that failure rates are higher for laptops than desktops. OTOH, careful use of power management is generally important for laptop health. And older machines with suspend problems can be especially bad. If you close the lid and the machine fails to immediately suspend, heat will build up fast. I've seen some machines configured to not shut down properly when the lid is closed and they're all disasters waiting to happen. I'm fairly certain that the considerations you're mentioning (the look of a laptop) are important for only a tiny proportion of the overall user population. First, most business users don't even have laptops. Second, most of the ones who do don't care and aren't in businesses that care. For the basic stuff, most desktop machines are still working just fine and the repair cost on a desktop is much lower than on a laptop. Thus I don't see any huge wave of upgrades coming. Still mostly a replacement business. mg