From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 29 21:15:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ptldpop3.ptld.uswest.net (ptldpop3.ptld.uswest.net [198.36.160.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5355F37B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:15:56 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 73840 invoked by alias); 30 Nov 2000 05:15:55 -0000 Delivered-To: fixup-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org@fixme Received: (qmail 73826 invoked by uid 0); 30 Nov 2000 05:15:54 -0000 Received: from win2k.gplsucks.org (HELO win2k) (63.227.213.89) by ptldpop3.ptld.uswest.net with SMTP; 30 Nov 2000 05:15:54 -0000 From: "William Woods" To: "Brett Glass" Cc: , Subject: RE: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:12:04 -0800 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20001129205937.043ff770@localhost> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 7 days was fine for me, I own 3 of their systems, so I could swap HD's in a second. I would buy IBM again in a Heartbeat, based on my experiences with their support. -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Brett Glass Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 8:01 PM To: Bill Woods Cc: webmaster@wmptl.com; freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads At 06:12 PM 11/29/2000, Bill Woods wrote: >Hmmmm....Their service has been REAL good to me, the basically replaced my >whole laptop when I spilled coffee on it, and it dident cost me a dime, it >was warreentee(sp), Interesting. On mine, they tried to charge me hundreds of dollars for replacing trivial plastic parts that were scuffed but didn't really need fixing. >also on my other 600e, when my baby boy ripped the >keys off and broke the springs, they replaced the keyboard, in >warreentee. They shipped me a shipping box, and in 7 days I had my >repaired units........ Seven days is far too long when you're relying on a laptop. Especially when the system is shipped in and out via an overnight courier. This means that they dawdled for 5 days.... --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message