"Back in March, in 'Driving to Laptopia,' I reported on the launch of a project: moving as much of my computing life as possible to a Linux laptop. Specifically, I was moving from a 17" PowerBook running OS X to an IBM ThinkPad T40 running Linux. Both were new models a year ago, and at this point both are broken in, though in very different ways.
"The PowerBook has been in nearly continuous use since I got it more than a year ago. At home it's hooked up to a second (contiguous) monitor and a host of other peripherals--when it isn't floating around the house, hopping onto one our three Wi-Fi access points. It also travels with me on the road, which is up to half of my time. I doubt many other laptops have seen more use, under more conditions (in cars, on planes, on stages, on laps in less mentionable places), than this one--and that complained less. Which is saying a lot because I've beat the crap out of it..."
