[TriLUG] Laptops

[David A. Cafaro]

I also have to say I have had great experience with Dell Laptops.  I had a 
Dell Latitude CPx back when I was a field service engineer, and that thing 
survived 145,000 air miles and was still ticking when I left.  I now have a 
Dell Latitude C600 that has worked great with both RH7.2 and now Mandrake 
8.2.  I have had no problems setting it up to recognize my different 
docking stations at work and home and setting up X/eth0 for the different 
monitors/stations automatically.  I love my Dell, just wish I could upgrade 
the CPU.

David


At 03:10 PM 4/15/2002, you wrote:
>I have had similar experience with dell support. I had a mother board
>overheat and burnout. The dell tech that I talked to had no problem with
>the fact that I was running Linux and had someone here the next day to
>install a new mother board.
>
>I have a Dell Latitude 810C, but I would recomend the Inspiron 8100 or
>4100 with a ATI video card (unless you plan to taint your kernel with
>the nvidia binary drivers) and make sure that if you are planning to use
>the modem you don't end up with a winmodem (ie. 3com mini-pci cards). I
>have had some trouble with my laptop and a docking station. My laptop
>will reboot itself sometimes, mostly when I and doing anything intesive
>like playing a dvd or trying to burn a cd.
>
>All in all Dells are good machines. I just don't know that I would go
>with the Latitude line if I had the chance to choose again.
>
>Elliot
>
>On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 11:27, Chris Knowles wrote:
> > OK, that's odd.
> >
> > I called Dell Tech support on 4/9 about a problem I was having with a
> > laptop running Redhat 7.2, and they were quite hospitable.  They
> > determined that it was a harddrive, and sent me a new one.
> >
> > Guess I must have gotten the only tech who'll talk to Linux people.
> >
> > CJK
> > On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 11:11, John Beimler wrote:
> > > quotation from Chris Hedemark <chris at yonderway.com> [on 020415 10:47]:
> > >
> > > > DELL BAAAD!
> > > >
> > > > Baby in my lap.  Hard to type.  Email me 4 more.
> > > >
> > > I agree, Linux support is DIY now, and if you call for support during
> > > the warantty period they won't help you unless the machine if free of
> > > non-MS OS's.  That and I've found their laptop hardware to be flaky.
> > >
> > > Peace.
> > >
> > > john
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