On Tue, 3 May 2016, Denis Heidtmann wrote: > Suggestions on an alternative laptop? Keys are the first requirement > (along with Linux, of course.) And that Dell mentioned here a while ago > with a non-replaceable battery seems to me to be a bit stupid. But maybe I > can be convinced otherwise with suitable arguments.
Denis, I have a Dell Latitude E5410 (now replaced with the E5510 or later) and it has worked flawlessly for ~4 years. There was a piece of plastic peeking out of the bottom of the keyboard when it arrived and a call to tech support fixed that ... the tech was here in a couple of days. Turned out to need to be pushed back in place; the keyboard was fine. He left the replacement heyboard for me. I have also a Dell 2100 netbook that I use for communications, note-taking during meetings, and looking up technical references when I don't need the horsepower of the larger laptop. My experiences with Dell have all been positive and when I must replace either system I'll definitely see if that company still makes portables. Now, another suggestion for your consideration. A few years ago I bought my sister a Compaq Presario CQ62 laptop (15" screen, 64-bit AMD CPU, 2G RAM, etc.) She's no longer able to see well enough to use it and returned it to me since she's sold her house and moving to in independent living facility. It has a virus-infected win7 on it and is waiting for me to install Slackware-14.1 (or, I might just wait until 14.2 is out and install that). Since I don't need a third laptop sitting here I'd consider selling it. Might this meet your needs? It ain't the System76, but it's in good condition. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
