I also have to say I have had great experience with Dell Laptops. I had a Dell Latitude CPx back when I was a field service engineer, and that thing survived 145,000 air miles and was still ticking when I left. I now have a Dell Latitude C600 that has worked great with both RH7.2 and now Mandrake 8.2. I have had no problems setting it up to recognize my different docking stations at work and home and setting up X/eth0 for the different monitors/stations automatically. I love my Dell, just wish I could upgrade the CPU.
David At 03:10 PM 4/15/2002, you wrote: >I have had similar experience with dell support. I had a mother board >overheat and burnout. The dell tech that I talked to had no problem with >the fact that I was running Linux and had someone here the next day to >install a new mother board. > >I have a Dell Latitude 810C, but I would recomend the Inspiron 8100 or >4100 with a ATI video card (unless you plan to taint your kernel with >the nvidia binary drivers) and make sure that if you are planning to use >the modem you don't end up with a winmodem (ie. 3com mini-pci cards). I >have had some trouble with my laptop and a docking station. My laptop >will reboot itself sometimes, mostly when I and doing anything intesive >like playing a dvd or trying to burn a cd. > >All in all Dells are good machines. I just don't know that I would go >with the Latitude line if I had the chance to choose again. > >Elliot > >On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 11:27, Chris Knowles wrote: > > OK, that's odd. > > > > I called Dell Tech support on 4/9 about a problem I was having with a > > laptop running Redhat 7.2, and they were quite hospitable. They > > determined that it was a harddrive, and sent me a new one. > > > > Guess I must have gotten the only tech who'll talk to Linux people. > > > > CJK > > On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 11:11, John Beimler wrote: > > > quotation from Chris Hedemark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [on 020415 10:47]: > > > > > > > DELL BAAAD! > > > > > > > > Baby in my lap. Hard to type. Email me 4 more. > > > > > > > I agree, Linux support is DIY now, and if you call for support during > > > the warantty period they won't help you unless the machine if free of > > > non-MS OS's. That and I've found their laptop hardware to be flaky. > > > > > > Peace. > > > > > > john > > > _______________________________________________ > > > TriLUG mailing list > > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > > > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > TriLUG mailing list > > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > > TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html >-- >/***************************************************************** >* Elliot Peele * >* Student in Computer Science Computer Systems Administrator * >* NC State University Department of Physics * >* [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] * >*****************************************************************/ > > Avoid the Gates of Hell. Use Linux > --/usr/games/fortune linuxcookie > >_______________________________________________ >TriLUG mailing list > http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug >TriLUG Organizational FAQ: > http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
