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I had an interesting and potential disastrous situation with my laptop!<...>



I don't need the laptop for lyrics, just as an mp3 player (although music and lyrics are convenient, especially if someone comes up in the middle of a song to request the song you played 3 tunes ago).

And a good laptop is reliable...

I've been doing one-nighters since 2002 with ThinkPad laptops and have had only 2 problems (1) the hard drive started making noise so I replaced it the next day (2) the CMOS battery died on a 7 year old laptop so I replaced it with a $5 Radio Shack battery.

I do one-nighers for a living, so they get very rough treatment. The laptops I use do not go on the Internet, have no bloatware on them (I order them direct from Lenovo - before that IBM), and are much more reliable than any mp3 player I've ever owned.

However, I do bring a spare, because I'm a "the show must go on" kind of a guy.

Of course YMMV

If you ask a dozen musicians, you'll get at least 10 different answers. What is best for me may not be best for you.

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