-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I would consider the Sony and perhaps Dell. As Jason said mine fell to pieces while ejecting the CD-RW drive and then there were the marathon phone tag sessions trying to get in touch with someone to get the issue resolved. Originally I had an 8000 and every piece of hardware worked just fine. When Dell finally got off of their high horse thanks to Jason they replaced it with a refurbished 8100. The only piece of hardware that will not work is the modem, a 3Com winmodem. Suspend almost works but I can not be in X. For me suspend is a minor feature and overall I am much more satisfied with the Inspiron 8100 than the uninspiring Inspiron 8000. Another option might be IBM. They cost a small fortune but they are bulletproof. YMMV.
On Thursday 17 October 2002 09:54, Jason Straight wrote: > Dell - ugh. > > 2 of the guys here have to take theirs apart and reseat cables regularly, a > friend of mine and I both had lemons (his actually fell to pieces in his > hands when he ejected his CD-ROM) they wouldn't replace either of them. I > sent 5 letters to them, and Greg filed a complaint with the BBB, I got no > response. I finally contacted the dell folks listed on the BBB page and > told them off and got 2 replacement laptops, Greg's was fine. Mine had a > display anomoly right out of the box, so I opted for the refund they > offered, which took them forever to get to me. They tried to bill me for > the one I sent back, they said I didn't send it back but their webpage form > said they had it for weeks. Finally after a long time I got my refund > money. I'll never do business with that company again. > > However if you do go with Dell everything worked for me on the 8000, the > 8100/8200's used nvidia graphics and 3com winmodems, so the modem and > suspend didn't work. > > I got a sony GRX-570 with the 16.1" display, it totally rocks and I haven't > had a single problem with it, took some patching the kernel for ACPI and > memstick reader but everything works great - no suspend here either though > with the ACPI - yet. > > On Thursday 17 October 2002 01:58, J. Greenlees wrote: > > depends on the model of dell. > > I have an inspiron and do have a couple of problems with it. > > minor, like the missing save to ram file their proprietary bios looks > > for ( unless you have their windows still on the system you lose this > > file ) and no support from dell for the inspiron in canada. ~g~ > > but as far as linux on it, runs great. - -- Greg A. Bur Secretary/Treasurer BlazeConnect, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blazeconnect.net Phone: 231-597-0376 Fax: 231-597-0393 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE9rsj5LYabVp98hnERAmvlAJ9FRBC7jb3NM6YswYPOdSil2Cy3iQCeIf8J YFgzIUS0qvDbRIk+i7CYmQo= =KTou -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
