On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 11:36:57PM -0600, Austad, Jay wrote: > I don't know about Dell laptops... We buy them for our people who need > them, and we've had quite a bit of problems with them. Keys going bad, bad > cdrom, battery failing after only a couple of months, sketchy problems that > just require a whole replacement from Dell. If you get one, make sure you > get the 3 year warranty, you'll probably need it. I'll second that motion. I've got the Inspiron 7500 and I've needed the 3 year warranty many times. To their credit, they came to the house next day service, no questions asked. Even with the excellent service I received from Dell, I'm switching to IBM laptops. -- Paul Rech pauljrech at acm.org rechpj at bitstream.net prsyscon at real-time.com