Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

2013-10-19 Thread Jonathan Thornburg
IBM sells refurbished ThinkPads: http://www.ibm.com/shop/used/pref http://www-304.ibm.com/shop/americas/content/home/store_IBMPublicCanada/en_CA/icpepcs.html I have bought a couple of laptops from them in the past, with generally good experiences. -- -- Jonathan Thornburg [remove -animal to

Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

2013-10-17 Thread Bernte
On 10/16/13 12:27 PM, Gilbert Sanford wrote: I have purchased over 20 machines (about 50% laptop) from dfsdirectsales.com over the last 5 years, and most of them had next day business support still in effect from Dell. I had only one machine that needed service (a Latitude E6510,) and it was

Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

2013-10-17 Thread Adam Thompson
On 13-10-17 01:15 AM, Bernte wrote: On 10/16/13 12:27 PM, Gilbert Sanford wrote: I have purchased over 20 machines (about 50% laptop) from dfsdirectsales.com over the last 5 years, and most of them had next day business support still in effect from Dell. I had only one machine that needed

Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

2013-10-16 Thread g.lister
On 10/14/2013 10:53 PM, Adam Thompson wrote: On 2013-10-12 06:01, g.lister wrote: Interesting. I always feel that I am getting ripped off when buying something refurbished but then again I find my stuff which I bought many years ago still works and is easier to install stuff on (things I care

Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

2013-10-16 Thread Gilbert Sanford
I have purchased over 20 machines (about 50% laptop) from dfsdirectsales.com over the last 5 years, and most of them had next day business support still in effect from Dell. I had only one machine that needed service (a Latitude E6510,) and it was repaired at no charge within 2 days. Also, please

Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

2013-10-14 Thread Adam Thompson
On 2013-10-12 06:01, g.lister wrote: Interesting. I always feel that I am getting ripped off when buying something refurbished but then again I find my stuff which I bought many years ago still works and is easier to install stuff on (things I care about anyway) and now when looking around I

Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

2013-10-12 Thread James Griffin
/ Adam Thompson wrote on Fri 11.Oct'13 at 11:10:46 -0500 / Hi guys, I am looking for some suggestions for a good, small quite laptop. I was looking at futureshop.ca and bestbuy.ca. I currently have an HP dv3 For OpenBSD, I would never buy something at FutureShop or BestBuy; those are all

Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

2013-10-12 Thread g.lister
On 10/12/2013 11:27 AM, James Griffin wrote: / Adam Thompson wrote on Fri 11.Oct'13 at 11:10:46 -0500 / Hi guys, I am looking for some suggestions for a good, small quite laptop. I was looking at futureshop.ca and bestbuy.ca. I currently have an HP dv3 For OpenBSD, I would never buy

Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

2013-10-11 Thread Adam Thompson
Hi guys, I am looking for some suggestions for a good, small quite laptop. I was looking at futureshop.ca and bestbuy.ca. I currently have an HP dv3 For OpenBSD, I would never buy something at FutureShop or BestBuy; those are all consumer-oriented Designed For Windows 8 laptops. I either

Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

2013-10-11 Thread g.lister
On 10/11/2013 06:10 PM, Adam Thompson wrote: Hi guys, I am looking for some suggestions for a good, small quite laptop. I was looking at futureshop.ca and bestbuy.ca. I currently have an HP dv3 For OpenBSD, I would never buy something at FutureShop or BestBuy; those are all

Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

2013-10-10 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 7:11 PM, g.lister g.lis...@nodeunit.com wrote: - Original message - From Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com Sent Wed Oct 9 2013 11:29:07 AM CEST To g.lis...@nodeunit.com Subject Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions On Wed

Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

2013-10-09 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:14 AM, g.lister g.lis...@nodeunit.com wrote: Hi guys, I am looking for some suggestions for a good, small quite laptop. I was looking at futureshop.ca and bestbuy.ca. I currently have an HP dv3 which runs OpenBSD 5.2 but it is veeey loud some issue with keeping

Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

2013-10-09 Thread g.lister
- Original message - From Tomas Bodzar tomas.bod...@gmail.com Sent Wed Oct 9 2013 11:29:07 AM CEST To g.lis...@nodeunit.com Subject Re: Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions On Wed, Oct 9, 2013 at 12:14 AM, g.lister g.lis...@nodeunit.com wrote: Hi guys, I

Looking for good, small, canadian version laptop suggestions

2013-10-08 Thread g.lister
Hi guys, I am looking for some suggestions for a good, small quite laptop. I was looking at futureshop.ca and bestbuy.ca. I currently have an HP dv3 which runs OpenBSD 5.2 but it is veeey loud some issue with keeping heat down it has i7 cores but I am willing to settle for a lot less