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Durable Laptop Suggestions for the Desert?

Posted by Cliff on from the portable-GHz-in-the-sandbox dept.

glarbl_blarbl asks: "My brother is assigned to the 82nd Airborne in the US Army. His last laptop was a Sony Vaio whose power jack and hard drive both failed after about three years, and it didn't see anything worse than a state college dorm. He has just been ordered back to Iraq, and as the family computer geek I have been trying to help him with some general advice - but I have no experience with laptops in exotic environments. Does anyone know which brands/models would be better suited for life in the desert?"

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  1. Wha? by Jukashi · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    We still have troops in Iraq? I thought we pulled them out when the war ended last year? You'd think the media would cover something like this if it was still going on..weird...

  2. Good Advice by OmgTEHMATRICKS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A Sony VAIO lasting three years in the desert seems reasonable to me. Go get it fixed.

    As far as good advice goes, I'd suggest telling him to get the hell out of Iraq and go help someone really in need in New Orleans.

    Nobody wants us in Iraq except certain large corporations (UNOCAL, Halliburton) who've spent this coutry's national treasure, many thousands of US soldier's lives and killed nearly 100,000 innocent Iraqis in an illegal war, undeclared by congress (check the Constitution) to make billions for themselves.

    Get a clue. Use some of brains between your ears and tell him to get the f out.

    I'm a veteran of Vietnam and the first Desert Storm debacle. Believe me, twenty years from now this mistake in the desert and this administration will be an embarassing historical memory, but your brother's life and limb as well as the lives and families of the people of Iraq may be just as dead. Get some perspective.

    Good luck,

    Cato