[ale] Buying advice for Laptop ?

[Lightner, Jeff]

That's not my experience at all.   I switched to Dell when my Thinkpad died after several years.   I ran the Dell until my company decided to replace older laptops with HPs.   That HP has been running for the past 3 years with no problems.   I also have a personal laptop I've been running for more than a year with no issues.

(Until we found out there is no discount in buying Dell laptops/workstations while also buying Dell servers we used mostly Dell.   Once we found that no discount thing and got a better price from HP for laptops/workstations we moved to those.   One has to marvel at the way businesses shoot themselves in the foot.)

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Bob Toxen
Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 3:18 PM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
Subject: Re: [ale] Buying advice for Laptop ?

I find HP and Dell to make poor quality Laptop hardware that fails frequently.  I would not take one for free!

All 4 of my ThinkPads run great, including my low-end one bought new in
2003 and the used one older than that.  All run Linux great!

Of those the ONLY failure mode was the used DVD burner I bought for my
2001 has trouble ejecting disks and needs a paperclip.

Bob

On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 01:31:37PM +0000, Beddingfield, Allen wrote:
> Stick with Dell or HP.  Toshiba, Samsung, and Sony tend to not make drivers available for later versions of Windows (yuck!) if that is the route you are going.  Also, Dell and HP have good support, and there are more parts available on EBay for them later.
> Allen B.
> --
> Allen Beddingfield
> Systems Engineer
> The University of Alabama
> 
> 
> From: <ale-bounces at ale.org<mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org>> on behalf of 
> Narahari 'n' Savitha
> Reply-To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts
> Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 8:19 AM
> To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
> Subject: [ale] Buying advice for Laptop ?
> 
> Friends:
> 
> I am in the market for a laptop.  I am trying to decide between 
> celeron(may be ?)
> 
> i3
> i5
> i7
> 
> Brands (Lenovo, ASUS, Toshiba Acer, HP) ?
> RAM 8GB good enough or 16GB ?
> SSD a must or not really ?
> if HDD 5400rpm vs 7200 rpm makes diff ?
> Screen 15.6 inch screen.
> 
> Has to run Windows (8.1 is what I get I guess )
> 
> Uses:  VPN to Mrs. office.  Daughters projects with MS office.
> 
> -N

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