Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 15:30:00 -0500 From: freebsd-lists@dclg.ca To: Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> Cc: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>, Bartosz Fabianowski <freebsd@chillt.de>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-lists@dclg.ca Subject: Re: Laptop choices Message-ID: <17286.8904.278937.405685@canoe.dclg.ca> In-Reply-To: <20051124191959.GA26104@thought.org> References: <4383C20E.20509@shaw.ca> <200511231238.06590.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <20051123105730.GA29369@laverenz.de> <20051123185909.GA17696@thought.org> <4384C0AB.103@chillt.de> <20051123194217.GC17696@thought.org> <20051123200505.GF908@eucla.lemis.com> <20051123223653.GA19327@thought.org> <17285.59301.421840.741798@canoe.dclg.ca> <20051124191959.GA26104@thought.org>
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>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Kline <kline@tao.thought.org> writes: [on the merrits of my D800 laptop] Gary> Do you lease or buy most hardware? I've never crunched cost Gary> vs return on computers, but it seems likly that leasing might Gary> win here. Brand new machine every 18 months; what a deal. In Gary> any case, $3K (US or Cnd) is out of my league. I lease the laptop. It's a business tool. People pay me monthly, I pay dell monthly. In my case, I took the 3 year business lease ... which means that you "walk away" (or buy) the laptop at the end of the lease. I tend to walk away (ie: lease another laptop). Gary> thanks for your input; I'm saving it on my wish-list! Heh. You don't need faster... but compiling openoffice is a chore on a slow machine. :). Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
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