{Spam?} [ale] Dell laptop - recommendations?

Dow Hurst dhurst at kennesaw.edu
Tue Sep 23 09:40:11 EDT 2003


If you purchase a Dell thru Emperor, they have negotiated a OS less 
purchase for you.   And for wifi have also kept the unsupported card 
from being shipped.  However, I have to recommend the Apple Ti laptops.  
They are far away the class act of laptops now.  And the prices are 
lower than Dell's equivalent in power/performance.  You get so much more 
with the Ti line that I can't see getting anything else.  If price is 
the most important thing then take others recommendations.  Just check 
out prices on the 15" Ti before buying anything else.
Dow


synco gibraldter wrote:

>On 23 Sep 2003 at 9:17, James P. Kinney III wrote:
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>>I can't, with any degree of conscience, recommend a Dell laptop for
>>anyone who actually wants to use it. Of my clients that have laptops,
>>about half have Dells and they are constantly having "issues". About a
>>third have IBM Thinkpads. They have no problems (except the bozo that
>>poured a drink in his, then pulled off the keys to clean up the mess
>>and found out they won't go back on:). I use IBM Thinkpads. They are
>>rock solid machines. With some effort, even the modem can be made to
>>work. Emperor Linux in Smyrna sells Thinkpads with Linux
>>pre-installed.
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>i've had the same linux installation on my dell lattitude cp for 6 years [upgraded 
>software piece by piece of course] and i've had no problems whatsoever... i love my 
>dell.  i'd buy another one immediately if they'd sell it to me without software, which is 
>a joke.  so my next laptop will be a mac i think.
>
>maybe i've just been lucky with my dell, but i have to say i've been very very pleased 
>with the performance and stability.
>
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