From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 29 21:24:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from KIWI-Computer.com (kiwi-computer.com [63.224.10.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F39D37B401 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:24:07 -0800 (PST) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by KIWI-Computer.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) id eAU5Odf06834; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:24:39 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from freebsd) From: FreeBSD Filter Message-Id: <200011300524.eAU5Odf06834@KIWI-Computer.com> Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads In-Reply-To: "from Bill Woods at Nov 29, 2000 05:12:49 pm" To: Bill Woods Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:24:38 -0600 (CST) Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Don't worry; I won't buy an IBM laptop ever again. My 760E > > has had many, many problems -- including many that make > > it unusable even with Microsoft Windows. And I won't even > > get into how awful their service is if your laptop ever > > fails. > > 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), 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........ Lucky you. My power connector on my Toshiba Tecra (a $4300 system) came loose, and when I sent it in (my first mistake) to get the screen fixed, they wouldn't send it back to me until they changed me $700 to replace the motherboard (even though I could resolder the power connector myself). I bit the bullet & paid them (my second mistake) and ever since I got it back it's never worked. Right now it crashes 1-5 minutes after power-on, no matter what OS I'm using, even hanging out in the BIOS. I've sent it in 5 times since, each time they've replaced the motherboard for free (ironic, don't you think?)-- they keep insisting I need to reinstall software, but I'm getting sick of doing that and they won't refund me money, provide a replacement, extend my warranty, or even fix the damn thing. (They did replace my 14" screen and CD-ROM and Hard drive for free-- go figure) My advice: Don't buy a Toshiba either. Ever. Unless you don't care about the warranty or service. Or maybe other have had better luck... --Rick C. Petty, aka Snoopy rick@kiwi-computer.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message