I'm looking to give our outside sales reps laptops (about 24). I have been avoiding Dell for the reasons cited. I am looking at ThinkPad's, but would like to know whether or not the modems work under Linux. The sales guy couldn't tell me. Anybody know which models work well? Thanks, James Spinti jspinti at dartdist.com 952-368-3278 x396 fax 952-368-3255 |-----Original Message----- |From: tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org |[mailto:tclug-list-admin at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Mary Ayala |Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 7:06 AM |To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org' |Subject: RE: [TCLUG] Notebook advertised w/o Windows pre-installed | | |We buy exclusively Dell, and our sales force all have Dell laptops. The |ones with the most problems are the 7500 (DVD not working |correctly) and the |3500's. Other then that we haven't had too many problems. But we do buy |the 3 and now the 4 year extended care warranty - just in case. | |-----Original Message----- |From: Paul Rech [mailto:rechpj at bitstream.net] |Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 6:46 AM |To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org |Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Notebook advertised w/o Windows pre-installed | | |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 |_______________________________________________ |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, |Minnesota |http://www.mn-linux.org |tclug-list at mn-linux.org |https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list |_______________________________________________ |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, |Minnesota |http://www.mn-linux.org |tclug-list at mn-linux.org |https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list |