On Fri, 8 Aug 2003 07:41, Micha Feigin wrote: > From personal experience and quite a few people I work with, IBM seem to > be a good option.
When in Ottawa my Thinkpad started dieing from over-heat (the cooling fan was not working properly. Also the screen was dull (for unknown reasons - but the huge number of scratches was definately a contributing factor), and the tops of most keys had worn off from excessive typing (my key-tops start wearing off within 2 months of laptop purchase). I sent my 2.9yo Thinkpad in for warantee repair and got a new motherboard, BIOS, keyboard, and display. The only working parts of the machine that weren't replaced were the floppy drive and the RAM. The inside parts of the case were also replaced with the keyboard and display. I essentially received a new Thinkpad. I am very pleased with getting a laptop that was so worn replaced at no cost in less than a week. I'm sure that those of you who know what my laptops get subjected to will be equally impressed. Also they did not want to see my receipt as the serial number proved the date of manufacture (handy as I bought the Thinkpad over the Internet) and were happy to service a machine with the hard drive removed (no way am I letting them touch my data). When your new laptop becomes an old laptop this is the sort of support you want. -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ Bonnie++ hard drive benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/postal/ Postal SMTP/POP benchmark http://www.coker.com.au/~russell/ My home page
