>>>>> "Gary" == Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[on the merrits of my D800 laptop] Gary> Do you lease or buy most hardware? I've never crunched cost Gary> vs return on computers, but it seems likly that leasing might Gary> win here. Brand new machine every 18 months; what a deal. In Gary> any case, $3K (US or Cnd) is out of my league. I lease the laptop. It's a business tool. People pay me monthly, I pay dell monthly. In my case, I took the 3 year business lease ... which means that you "walk away" (or buy) the laptop at the end of the lease. I tend to walk away (ie: lease another laptop). Gary> thanks for your input; I'm saving it on my wish-list! Heh. You don't need faster... but compiling openoffice is a chore on a slow machine. :). Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================ _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"