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Date:      Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:23:01 +0000
From:      Chris Howells <howells@kde.org>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: BSD support?
Message-ID:  <200311180923.06256.howells@kde.org>
In-Reply-To: <20031118115649.58e3574f.timopie@dodo.com.au>
References:  <20031118115649.58e3574f.timopie@dodo.com.au>

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Hi,

On Tuesday 18 November 2003 01:56, Timothy Opie wrote:
> I did a BSD-Google search for laptop and notebook, and noticed that Dell
> came up more than any other company. I have been contemplating getting the
> Dell Inspiron 5150.

Personally I can _strongly_ recommend that you do _not_ buy Dell. I ended u=
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taking them to court over a laptop which didn't work from the start, which=
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they refused to to anything about when they heard it was running Linux... =
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even though it was quite clearly a hardware problem.

I guess with FreeBSD a conversation with "Dell support" (in quotes because =
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believe it to be somewhat of any oxymoron) would go along the lines of "Fre=
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what? Can't do anything about that, we only support the hardware, you have =
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be able to get the problem under Windows XP for us to do anything".

http://developer.kde.org/~howells/inspiron

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Cheers, Chris Howells -- chris@chrishowells.co.uk, howells@kde.org
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