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Dell - ugh.  

2 of the guys here have to take theirs apart and reseat cables regularly, a 
friend of mine and I both had lemons (his actually fell to pieces in his 
hands when he ejected his CD-ROM) they wouldn't replace either of them. I 
sent 5 letters to them, and Greg filed a complaint with the BBB, I got no 
response. I finally contacted the dell folks listed on the BBB page and told 
them off and got 2 replacement laptops, Greg's was fine. Mine had a display 
anomoly right out of the box, so I opted for the refund they offered, which 
took them forever to get to me. They tried to bill me for the one I sent 
back, they said I didn't send it back but their webpage form said they had it 
for weeks. Finally after a long time I got my refund money. I'll never do 
business with that company again.

However if you do go with Dell everything worked for me on the 8000, the 
8100/8200's used nvidia graphics and 3com winmodems, so the modem and suspend 
didn't work.

I got a sony GRX-570 with the 16.1" display, it totally rocks and I haven't 
had a single problem with it, took some patching the kernel for ACPI and 
memstick reader but everything works great - no suspend here either though 
with the ACPI - yet.


On Thursday 17 October 2002 01:58, J. Greenlees wrote:
> depends on the model of dell.
> I have an inspiron and do have a couple of problems with it.
> minor, like the missing save to ram file their proprietary bios looks
> for ( unless you have their windows still on the system you lose this file
> ) and no support from dell for the inspiron in canada. ~g~
> but as far as linux on it, runs great.

- -- 
"Having no way as way, having no limitation as limitation."
Bruce Lee

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