Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 08:56:23 -0500 From: "Arun Welch" <welch@igillc.com> To: <jesse@wingnet.net>, <freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: ideal laptop recommendations? Message-ID: <005701c31569$9cfa61f0$c77ba8c0@rune> In-Reply-To: <b9b1sm$2e6$1@main.gmane.org>
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> 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'll never buy another Dell. MTBF on mine is less than 6 months, and every repair takes at least 3 weeks, despite the so-called next-business-day repair contract I bought. One of my client's bought 10 laptops for a project a year ago, and 3 of them are now doorstops (and will probably remain so, as they've given up calling service in on them). *Everyone* I know who has a Dell has had a hardware problem on theirs at least once a year, and the standard response from their service department is "Reformat the hard drive and reinstall the OS" before they'll deal with the actual issue (the last case in point, a CD drive that went TU. After we refused to reload the OS they shipped another CD, and the replacement worked fine. It's in a removable caddy, after all, how hard was that?). ...arun
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