Bill Weiss([email protected])@Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 06:12:25PM +0000: > Joe Shisei Niski([email protected])@Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 09:51:48AM -0700: > > > > On 08/23/2017 07:16 PM, John Jason Jordan wrote: > > > On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 17:53:49 -0700 > > > Vedanta Teacher <[email protected]> dijo: > > > > > >> I was thinking about replacing it with a Lenovo ThinkPad T570: > > > Thinkpads are famous for reliability and Linux compatibility. But you > > > should also check out the offerings from System76. > > Many thumbs up to System76 for for nice turnkey Linux laptops, > > responsive pre-sale staff willing and ready to answer questions, and > > good service. I reccomend that if you go this route , do a little > > research onthe OEM of the system ad - I've purchased Clevo (also sold > > as Sager and Alienware) hardware from them and never had a problem. Not > > sure what they're selling these days. > > I cannot more strongly recommend against System76. > > At my previous company we used them for desktops and laptops for a few > years. After a number of bad hardware problems (example: three desktops in > a row had their power supplies catch fire. Not figuratively, actual smoke > and fire) and their resulting lack of ability to fix those things (one of > those desktops was in their hands for more than a month for repairs, > during which we had to just buy another computer for that user so they > could work) I talked to the management to see what we could do about it > and the answer was "eh, we think it's probably a problem on your side."[1] > We put all the System76 machines on Craigslist and bought Dells to replace > them, which were fine. > > I hear pretty good things about Clevo/Sager, though if you go that route > you're the support and warranty department :) You can get replacement > parts cheap enough, but not super quick. Consider it buying a machine > built from NewEgg and you'll be fine.
I forgot my [1] footnote: we had 100 people in that office, most with desktops. We had 3 power supply fires. Guess what the common thing among them was? We also had no other weird power issues: no monitors or TVs getting sad, no chargers being grumpy, etc. Also, all three of those machines had the same maker/model power supply. -- Bill Weiss _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
