[ale] new laptop...

[James P. Kinney III]

On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 11:57, Greg wrote:
> This question has come up on the OpenBSD list also.  The consensus was IBM,
> Dell, and everyone else.  Dell is second due to rotten customer service
> after the sale (unless you are a big company and can go thru a company rep).
> I saw no complaints against IBM on the thread unless you didn't like their
> pointer thingy - but then again many use a plugged in mouse.  I have an old
> IBM laptop (300 MHZ) and I run Suse/Windows 98 / Windows 2K Pro with no
> problems.  The Suse install was as easy as feeding it CD's.

I should have mentioned, I recently bought a pair of Thinkpads from
TigerDirect. They were refurbished PIII 700's. It the point where I ever
buy another brand new lapto, I will buy IBM. These things are really
well built, solid feel, perfect screen, excellent combination of tools,
speed, battery life, power. The pointer-thingy takes some getting used
to, but is quite usable and worth not having to lug another item to
learn. The internal winmodem is the only thing I don't have working yet.
It appears to be a quasi-supported winmodem. I just haven't had the time
to tinker with it.
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