Best/worst laptop you've ever owned?

[usonian]

4. I don't recall any really bad ones.

Other than Apple stuff (*), I got a 17" (wow) Compaq and immediately formatted the disk and installed Linux. So nice!

It still runs but only on the power adapter.

(*) I rarely get laptops because
a. They don't fit on the music holder on most musical keyboards.
b. One bad part breaks the whole system, and
c. I am partial to Mac minis for the value ($600 for an M2 CPU) and the modularity. AND so many ports.
d. Laptop parts, no matter who makes them, give you less for the same money.
e. The G3 mac laptop, aka Patton Tank, did everything. It never failed me, and I booted up many Sun setvers via a serial port adapter. You felt safe walking the streets with it because it was a deadly weapon when not being a computer.

When salespeople weren't looking, I booted laptops with a live dvd Linux distro to see if they would play nice with Linux.