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  15      <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/">Petter Reinholdtsen</a>
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  23       <div class="title">Time to find a new laptop, as the old one is broken after only two years</div>
  24       <div class="date"> 3rd July 2015</div>
  25       <div class="body"><p>My primary work horse laptop is failing, and will need a
  26 replacement soon.  The left 5 cm of the screen on my Thinkpad X230
  27 started flickering yesterday, and I suspect the cause is a broken
  28 cable, as changing the angle of the screen some times get rid of the
  29 flickering.</p>
  30
  31 <p>My requirements have not really changed since I bought it, and is
  32 still as
  33 <a href="http://people.skolelinux.org/pere/blog/Thank_you_Thinkpad_X41__for_your_long_and_trustworthy_service.html">I
  34 described them in 2013</a>.  The last time I bought a laptop, I had
  35 good help from
  36 <a href="http://www.prisjakt.no/category.php?k=353">prisjakt.no</a>
  37 where I could select at least a few of the requirements (mouse pin,
  38 wifi, weight) and go through the rest manually.  Three button mouse
  39 and a good keyboard is not available as an option, and all the three
  40 laptop models proposed today (Thinkpad X240, HP EliteBook 820 G1 and
  41 G2) lack three mouse buttons).  It is also unclear to me how good the
  42 keyboard on the HP EliteBooks are.  I hope Lenovo have not messed up
  43 the keyboard, even if the quality and robustness in the X series have
  44 deteriorated since X41.</p>
  45
  46 <p>I wonder how I can find a sensible laptop when none of the options
  47 seem sensible to me?  Are there better services around to search the
  48 set of available laptops for features?  Please send me an email if you
  49 have suggestions.</p>
  50
  51 <p>Update 2015-07-23: I got a suggestion to check out the FSF
  52 <a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/respects-your-freedom">list
  53 of endorsed hardware</a>, which is useful background information.</p>
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