I agree with this, with the caveat that actually more important is reliability. Our company bought a few Lenovo T60Ps - with how great the T43P had performed, we thought it would be T43P++. Unfortunately the wireless cards were VERY flaky. :(
So, I want: reliability so I don't have to futz with wireless and other functionality - and then instant on and off. "Elastic laptop"
If the biggest caveat is a wireless card, you can probably replace it.
I have a Thinkpad T41, which has been great except the OpenBSD driver for the included wireless card was incomplete (due to being reverse-engineered). It was only about $15 to replace it with a Ralink card; Ralink happily provided full tech specs to the BSD devs, and the card works quite well.
Excellent point. Lucky for me, I haven't ended up with a flaky mac yet so its not on my radar, but I'd certainly have to say that ultra reliable networking, keyboard, pointer and USB would be a must.
It doesn't matter how fast your computer wakes up from sleep if it takes 10 minutes of fiddling to get it back on the network.
I agree with this, with the caveat that actually more important is reliability. Our company bought a few Lenovo T60Ps - with how great the T43P had performed, we thought it would be T43P++. Unfortunately the wireless cards were VERY flaky. :(
So, I want: reliability so I don't have to futz with wireless and other functionality - and then instant on and off. "Elastic laptop"