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