On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:00:20 -0600, Chris Smith <christophermsmith at mac.com> wrote: > Now that IBM is > selling though, I'd go Dell. You can get repairs done and get ahold of > someone, and their onsite service is good. (get a lattitude and you can talk > to US based support, vs. India.) I have a Lat D800 running FC3 and it works > very well, though I haven't had time to play w/ the wireless yet everything > else works great. I strongly recommend *not* going with dell for laptops. I have a Latitude c640 and while it works just fine with linux I have had some serious overheating problems. The thing always seemed to get hotter than I would ever imagine could be normal (regularly runs at about 141 celsius with nothing else going) and sure enough less than a year after I bought it the motherboard died due to overheating. Looking at message boards, this would seem to be a very common problem with Dell laptops, to the point where there are a couple 3rd party fan utilities written specifically for them to keep their fans running at full tilt at all times. I spent a week with support trying to get my motherboard replaced, which did ultimately happen, but it was a hassle. -- Loren H. Burlingame <loren at lhb.name> GPG Key ID: 0x112DCF4F "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes." -William Shatner (a.k.a. Buck Murdock) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list