From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Mar 24 14:13:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (oahu.WURLDLINK.NET [208.164.68.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E7C0637BACB; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 14:13:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Received: from localhost (vince@localhost) by oahu.WURLDLINK.NET (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id MAA29392; Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:13:22 -1000 (HST) (envelope-from vince@oahu.WURLDLINK.NET) Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2000 12:13:22 -1000 (HST) From: Vincent Poy To: Greg Lehey Cc: Mike Smith , Nate Williams , Poul-Henning Kamp , "Jordan K. Hubbard" , mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What laptop should I buy? In-Reply-To: <20000324140108.V1349@mojave.worldwide.lemis.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 24 Mar 2000, Greg Lehey wrote: > > Yeah, that's true... Since when you carried the heavy weight, it > > doesn't really matter much unless it was a machine a lot lighter, then you > > would have the impression that you forgot your notebook or something. The > > Inspiron 7500 is made by a Taiwanese company just like a lot of the IBM's > > are made by Acer to IBM specs. You can actually get the same i7500 > > machine under different brand names from Computer Shopper. > > I have people who are prepared to buy it for me. Under those > circumstances, I need to consider who can repair it best world-wide. I couldn't find the article that was in PC Magazine about a year ago. But I think DEC (now Compaq) did the servcing for Dell Machines. If you went to www.quantex.com, their notebooks are the same machines as the Dell i7000 and i7500 except the configuration might vary slightly. Cheers, Vince - vince@WURLDLINK.NET - Vice President ________ __ ____ Unix Networking Operations - FreeBSD-Real Unix for Free / / / / | / |[__ ] WurldLink Corporation / / / / | / | __] ] San Francisco - Honolulu - Hong Kong / / / / / |/ / | __] ] HongKong Stars/Gravis UltraSound Mailing Lists Admin /_/_/_/_/|___/|_|[____] Almighty1@IRC - oahu.DAL.NET Hawaii's DALnet IRC Network Server Admin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message