Quoting Chris Smith <christophermsmith at mac.com>: > Hmm. Having had a lot of dells, I'd say they are average, with Lattitudes > seemingly more solid than Inspirons. I also think that all manufacturing > seems to go thru fazes when it comes to quality. There was a time when HPs > Pavilions were great, and then I had a series of them that were truly a > nightmare right around the PII-450 days, and then they got better again. For > a while I'd get a series of them that would blue screen out of the box. I've > had several Inspiron 8500 drives go bad lately too (we went thru a short > faze of buying Inspirons for some reason). Though I think a lot of users > have been leaving their laptops out in the car with 9 degree weather > overnight, and then turning them on first thing in the morning. :-( > > Chris > <snip> I very much agree with the statement about manufacturers and their hardware quality cycling, especially with laptops. Someone gets a bad batch of stuff and all hell breaks loose witha a specific model. I bought 12 HP laptops about 3 years ago. Withing 6 months 7 of them had to have motherboards replaced when they decided to stop booting. Once replaced with a decent board they were quite good, I think I still have a couple of them issued to my less well behaved users :) Anyway, to try and keep on topic, try to find someone happy with a specific model rather than a specific manufacturer. Thanks, Josh _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list