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

[Hogg, Russell E]

I've had a Dell laptop for about 18 months..  I bought it refurb to keep the
cost down and it has been fantastic.  

It's been to Puerto Rico with me.  Into several warehouses.  To a cottage on
St John with no AC.  (still has sand in it from that)

It dual boots RedHat 8 beautifully, I run it off my power inverter in the
car for war-driving or trips..

The display is a gorgeous 1600 by 1200 native..
XP home is the only thing wrong with it.

Russ








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-----Original Message-----
From: Josh Freeman [mailto:josh at catea.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2003 10:59 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: Re: {Spam?} [ale] Dell laptop - recommendations?

I hear a lot of complaints about Dell laptops, but I've never actually
witnessed it. In my office, we have about a dozen Dell laptops, and we
have NEVER had anywhere near the degree of problems that many people
seem to have with that particular platform. All the problems we seem to
have are (L)user error or Windows doing what it does best, i.e. crashing
and burning in a spectacular manner. I've had mine for about three
years, and the only problem I have had is one of the screws on the case
popped out.  

josh


On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 10:42, griffisb at bellsouth.net wrote:
> > From: "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> 
> >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". 
> A good source for budget prices Thinkpads is tigerdirect.com. Check the
> "re-certified" section. A T22 is $700. 
> 
> Ouch! I like Thinkpads, am on my second. Picked up an HP laptop for my
wife (it's okay, but did have to get shipped back for a power issue and had
to have the motherboard epoxied after a kid got too rough with it. I was
expensive and is Windows XP only at this point). 
> 
> I'll need to think about it a little more - the idea is my sister needs a
platform to write grant proposals on, and e-mail them (or print and mail).
She also has zero cash, so I was thinking about gifting something. Maybe
I'll rethink this and go the desktop route. Much closer to what I can do
with cash in pocket.
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