On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 10:00:08AM -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > From: "Simon Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > On Thu, 2002-11-14 at 04:53, Jim Richardson wrote: > > > Why steer clear of Dell? I have been quite happy with my Inspiron 8100. > > > > On the whole me too. > > > > Have had some problems with BIOS updates so my only suggestions is don;t > > unless you really need to. > > > > Otherwise their hardware is nice and standard so very compatible. > > I don't think (though I'm willing to be corrected) that they have produced a > proper ACPI-compatible BIOS yet - and most of the newer machines don't support > apm. >
Maybe, dunno, I do know that my 8100 supports APM fine. -- Jim Richardson http://www.eskimo.com/~warlock You know you've landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi. Lintel, because you can't rely on windows to support heavy loads.
