Date: Wed, 07 May 2003 09:33:30 -0400 From: "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse@wingnet.net> To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ideal laptop recommendations? Message-ID: <b9b1sm$2e6$1@main.gmane.org> References: <87brygq8jm.fsf@fuckup.hack.org> <16056.18138.287510.281869@idiom.com>
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Eric De Mund wrote: > Hello, > > I don't recall the first requester's name, but, hello. I always ask > people if they're going to be carrying the machine here and there or > are, instead, going to be using it in one place. If the machine is going > to be travelling back and forth to work or back and forth to school on a > regular basis, I tell them to go down to their local mom-and-pop compu- > ter repair place and talk to pop. Or mom. I really don't know of a single "mom-and-pop" place around here that sells laptops. In my experience older folks are terrified of the things. Truthfully, I don't know anyone around here that sells IBMs either. > Have them tell you what brands > and models you should avoid. And then ask them why. > > When I did this in 2000, I learned that Dell laptops and, to an even > greater degree, Sony laptops were flimsy, flimsy, flimsy. I have yet to hear from a single sole who actually owns a Sony or Dell and isn't happy with it. Sounds like a bunch of "buy IBM" propoganda to me. I know a programmer who owns a Dell laptop and is VERY happy with it. > They suffered > a lot of internal breakage because the boxes were not solidly construct- > ed. The manufacturers skimped on materials and strength, and the results > were just what you'd expect: expensive repairs that just weren't possi- > ble for the end-user to do himself. > > On the other end of the spectrum, IBM ThinkPads and Toshiba laptops > were, according to pop, built like tanks. I don't know about that. I looked at the Toshibas yesterday at Bestbuy. They're made of the same grade plastic that the Sony is made of. Perhaps things have changed a bit in the last 3 years. <snip> -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net
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