> 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.
What will happen to my warranty if in case i buy extra memory/space/battery from external vendors? > > Does Dell not do the windows refund though ? If Dell gives the refund, i can definitely look forward to buying it. Many of my friends are quite happy with Dell. No problem in 2yrs...and they are providing quite a good configuration at this price. > > > 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. Are fujitsu laptops specifically for industry/professional use? Being a student, should i consider it? -- Regards Chirag Anand 4th Year, B.Tech Computer Science Department, JUIT Solan Blog :http://techfreaks4u.com/blog Linux User: 476783 anything weird is worth a try... _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
