Re: laptop shopping

On Tue, 27 May 2008 10:43:32 +0000, Ari Rankum wrote:

Time Waster wrote:
I don't need a flame fest about Sony's and Dells and HPs necessarily,
though maybe that would be fun too. (I can read Amazon for those,
though.) Are the sales critters pretty much full of it as I would
expect?

Thanks!

I've been putting RedHat/Fedora on Dell laptops since 1999. All
installs have been completely successful (everything worked). Latest
laptop is a Dell Precision M90 Core2 Duo running FC7. It's been running
24x7 for a little over a year with no hiccups at all.

Dell laptops are fine, my issue with Dell is that if you want a good
laptop they force you to buy Windows. The Ubuntu and FreeDOS laptops have
pathetic screens. The Ubuntu laptop is also using a slow (2GHz) obsolete
(65nm) processor. Lenovo is offering a high resolution screen and the
latest processors. The only problem with Lenovo is that they don't offer
Nvidia graphics or 802.11n on the Linux version. HP offers FreeDOS
systems that are state of the art, but for some reason they are a lot
more expensive the the equivalent Lenovo.
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