Re: Laptop Recommendation Sought.

["Tyler J. Evans" <te8 axe humboldt edu>]

On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Stephen Carville wrote:

> About 14 months ago I bought a laptop from QLI.  It is now a
> paperweight with a dead video and, naturally, out of warranty.
> 

QLI?  What's that?



> So I am in the market for another laptop and would like opinions for
> something a little more robust.  (I'm gonna shoot for two whole years
> this time :-)  I plan to install either RH 7.2 or 8.0 and I have some
> experience at getting laptops to work with Linux.
> 

I have a 2 year old Dell Inspiron running rh7.1 like a champ!  I did get 
the three year warranty (for about 7% of the purchase price) because, 
let's face it, laptops break!  However, Dell customer service is excellent 
and fast! (My machine has had two problems in two years: hd went bad at 
about one year old, tft display went bad at about 1.5 years old).  Dell 
fixed both problems in one day after the phone call.  

Also, as for hardware compatibility, it is hard to beat Dell IMO.

Tyler



> Any suggestions?  
> 
> 

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