Jason Straight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >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.
I have a PCG-FX47 (15" display and Athlon). I picked it because it felt real solid and has stood up to a bit of abuse.Linux seems to pickup all the importants devices. I don't know about modem since I only use the NIC. I don't have the memstick slot because of the limited use and increased price. I do use a external zip drive which works fine but it is a bit bulky. The only real problem is that because its Sony they had to put regioning on the DVD drive. I have yet to see if matters under Linux. It also needs ACPI because it tends to run a hot. ACPI seems to be really solid though I haven't tried suspending with any version of the patch. It would nice it was included in the default(or an alternate) mdk kernel. > > >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 > >PGP Keys: http://www.jeetkunedomaster.net/~junfan/pubkey.asc >Jason Straight <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >ICQ: 1796276 >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > >iQCVAwUBPa7BGhFHZPcobeHxAQJ/FgP/Z8yssRLYobdldziV1NNnQ+kL6xlLiUDU >qZEwF+siXXmMk9EX593I09w40jWDIOZYjT/Vf+TLpEVVQUgxnOK7BuLfg5AP/10h >hWi36s39KfpRWKrOz7s9iZI/fngqF/EfYunNdGSC9aIr0l+7lvWxUd41dgtS7lfQ >ue2ZantC3ms= >=B1Oh >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > __________________________________________________________________ The NEW Netscape 7.0 browser is now available. Upgrade now! http://channels.netscape.com/ns/browsers/download.jsp Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Mail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/
