{Spam?} [ale] Dell laptop - recommendations?

[James P. Kinney III]

I can't, with any degree of conscience, recommend a Dell laptop for
anyone who actually wants to use it. Of my clients that have laptops,
about half have Dells and they are constantly having "issues". About a
third have IBM Thinkpads. They have no problems (except the bozo that
poured a drink in his, then pulled off the keys to clean up the mess and
found out they won't go back on:). I use IBM Thinkpads. They are rock
solid machines. With some effort, even the modem can be made to work.
Emperor Linux in Smyrna sells Thinkpads with Linux pre-installed.

A good source for budget prices Thinkpads is tigerdirect.com. Check the
"re-certified" section. A T22 is $700.

On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 08:23, griffisb at bellsouth.net wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
>    I'm considering picking up a Dell laptop from Dell Financial Services off e-bay. My sister writes grant proposals and is in need of a desktop or laptop. So I was thinking of spotting one for her.
> 
>    What would you use as a basic spec machine for writing grant proposals? I was thinking of installing Knoppix to the hard disk, and running the most current OpenOffice, and just set up Konqueror and KMail for Internet stuff.
> 
>    Are there drivers for the modem? Is KPPP fairly straight-forward? Any models I should absolutely avoid? I might also see what IBM has to offer, but the budget is limited.
> 
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