My Thinkpad T61 has served me pretty well for the last couple of years but now it's time for something new. I shopped around a bit but ended up going back to Lenovo and customized a W510. It helped that right when I was trying to make a decision between brands they went on sale (coinciding with the release of Sandy Bridge?) and I got it for half
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for CAD I would personally prefer a slightly faster GPU (probably FX1800M), but still a pretty impressive machine, even more with that pricetag
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- all sorts of stuff to be paranoid about, like aligning the filesystem to erase block boundaries which LWN just covered recently that would drive my OCD-half freaking nuts
- but mainly because I'm constantly (seriously, always) rebuilding @world with new gcc snapshots, meaning constantly writing and rewriting. there is no write-once, read-many on my system.
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I also would like to know what reasons are speaking against a SSD?
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