{"id":5541,"date":"2011-04-28T09:08:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T09:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/28\/laptop-recommendations\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T09:08:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T09:08:05","slug":"laptop-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/28\/laptop-recommendations\/","title":{"rendered":"Laptop Recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2011\/01\/replacement_tablet_pc_options.php\">previously noted<\/a>, the Lenovo ThinkPad X61 tablet that I use for my lectures is limping badly these days (it blue-screened this morning, whee). The options for a direct replacement are pretty limited, but in thinking about it a bit, I realized that I hardly use the tablet functions other than to annotate slides during lectures. Most of what I do with it just involves using it like an ordinary laptop.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s not clear to me whether the hardware is really a problem, but I might very well be able to wipe it, reinstall the necessary programs, then continue to use it as a lecture-only computer, while getting some other laptop for my fooling-people-at-coffee-shops-into-thinking-I&#8217;m-writing needs. Which means that I have a whole new query to throw out to the blog:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If I want to buy a good Windows-based laptop, what should I be looking at?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mac and Linux cultists, please note that the Windows part of this is non-negotiable. For a variety of reasons I am constrained to Microsoft products, and I am really, really, <em>really<\/em> not interested in hearing about the wonders of the latest Apple products, or the glories of open-source, blah, blah, blah.<\/p>\n<p>So, given that constraint, what product lines and features are essential for my next laptop purchase? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As previously noted, the Lenovo ThinkPad X61 tablet that I use for my lectures is limping badly these days (it blue-screened this morning, whee). The options for a direct replacement are pretty limited, but in thinking about it a bit, I realized that I hardly use the tablet functions other than to annotate slides during&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/2011\/04\/28\/laptop-recommendations\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Laptop Recommendations<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}