Just from my personal experience, price will be a little bit more important, I get my 800c second hand for $750 6 months ago... it was super low and everything work, with 3 times higher price I can get a little better laptop with a little more speed..... but for sure not 3 times.... and with cheap "working" laptop, you can alway trade in and upgrade when you find a great deal. ( my last upgrade from 300 **Presario 1250 $950 3 years ago ) Alex
Tollef Fog Heen >* Vivek > >| On Tue, 21 May 2002, Derek Broughton wrote: >| >| > No flames from me. That pretty much sums it up - price >| > vs. quality. Not a big difference either way, but Dell IS >| > renowned for bad BIOSes. What's the status of IBM support for >| > Linux in the retail market, these days? Dell >| >| They actually ship some laptops with a distro on: I forget which - >| even if you use a different distro, this is worth grabbing as you can >| snaffle any kernel params or binary-only programs that come with. > >My box was delivered with Caldera OpenLinux. > >| I didn't get linux with my A20p, because they weren't shipping at the >| time, but I'd definitely buy one again - great keyboard, nice mouse >| replacement (a rubber-nipple-thingy as opposed to a trackpad), great >| screen, and nice keyboard (for a laptop). Oh, and 3 mouse buttons. > >The latter is just _soo_ good. > >(And regarding the Dell vs Thinkpad I can just say that I wore out two >Dell boxen in less than a year, but this IBM T21 has survived more >than a year already (with only one hard drive broken, some memory >slots had to be adjusted and a crack in the plastic). _Very_ nice >box. > > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
