On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 21:02 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote, among other things: > The laptop should be decent with > said things for the next 3 years (my bachelor's degree course length). > > Jai >
I would recommend Dell, as many others have done. I bought an Inspiron 6000 at the beginning of my last year of sixth form and it is still going strong (if with very diminished battery life, as can be expected) at the end of my 2nd year of university (three years now - no gap year!). I did have a hard drive failure, but this fortunately fell under warranty and if you don't have back-ups in case of this possibility you're a silly person in the first place. The build quality is decent, although as my flatmate has discovered with his Inspiron (a newer model), they don't particularly like being dropped all the time - it still works fine, but the screen hinge is now a bit dodgy. (Plus it still has Windows on it, of course.) Can't say anything about the Ubuntu Dells, but I wouldn't say no to a new Dell when the time comes for me to get a new machine. Hope that helps! -- All the best, Josh Blacker -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
