I always buy Lenovo laptops. Never really had an issue until the latest Lenovo I purchased. The suspend/sleep gets weird sometimes. Other than that, I am pretty satisfied with my dev box.
There is some skepticism around this project, but I strongly believe that the education community needs an open source student information system of this magnitude. It's feature set is greatly influenced by Ellucian's (formerly Datatel) product called Colleague. It is more like a school management system than an SIS, but it is my hope that it will grow into a full blown ERP.
I agree. There is no proof that MySQL cannot do the job when configured correctly. Furthermore, another issue is with coding. Sometimes unnecessary nested "if" statements can cause huge problems no matter what type of database you use.