Chirag Anand wrote:
Just saw the saber notebooks...
saber or sager :D
found them a bit expensive. I also want to
buy a notebook, my price range is not that high. I want to keep it around
45K (preferably below). And of course with Linux/Free DOS, dont wanna waste
bucks on windows.
HP seem to do a fairly good series these days, dont look at their
very-low end line up though. The good thing about HP is that all their
laptops have options for pretty much any sort of attachment you might
want or addons etc - and they dont mind third party bits in their
laptops ( my hp reseller didnt anyway ). So get the basic laptop from
them, buy the extra gigs of ram from elsewhere, buy the hdd upgrade from
elsewhere and get a bigass travel battery! And they tend to be built
quite well. And you have the option of FreeDOS.
So, I guess all the reasons why people would recommend an Thinkpad a few
years back... But recently most people I know in India seem to be of the
opinion that quality has dropped a bit.
Though i saw a couple of compaq notebooks, but did not find the
configuration good enough. DELL is also kinda expensive when you include the
cost of windows.
Does Dell not do the windows refund though ?
I've never been a big fan of Dell laptops. The place where I worked from
late 2001 to late 2004, we had a few hundred dell laptops ( the whole
setup was Dell, inc workstations, servers, storage, network kit -
everything ). And it was normal to have atleast 2 fail everyday ( the
help desk guys used to be about 20 feet away from me ). in Oct 2004,
facilities moved from Dell to Fujitsu - and failure rate fell to 1 per
week. Perhaps dell quality has also improved in the last few years, but
the pain from 4 years back is still quite fresh in my mind :D
On my side of things - servers, storage, network - we also found Fujitsu
to be a lot better for large installations, but not nearly as quick with
solutions or support as Dell was.
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