1) how long will Sony guarantee to have parts available such as the video converter board that drives the lcd screen for that model;
2) what is Sony ready and willing to do once their parts supplies dry up while the federally regulated mandates parts to be available for 7 years from the start of a model;
3) be sure to get at least a 3-year warranty with Sony laptops, 5-year warranty if you want to keep it longer.
I've been burnt by Sony who portray themselves as model electronic supplier, but are less than reliable (honest?) in their parts supply.
Consider http://www.eurocom.com/ of Ottawa. They'll ship laptops with Linux installed (at least, used to).
HTH, Hendrik Schaink
Marcel Lecker wrote:
I've heard through through the grape-vine that Sonys are fairly well supported. KDE or SuSE (can't remember which) even have widgets for configuring some of the special keys and buttons on them. I don't know much else about them.
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