On Sat, 13 Mar 2004, Clyde Kahrl wrote: > As for Dell, my wife got a brand new Dell last summer at work. It > was the worst piece of garbage I've ever seen.
Like any other company, Dell can have problems as well. I've overseen the purchase of a dozen Dell machines over the past few years and none of them has had any problems, and my Dell Inspiron 7500 has been a great machine, very reliable and still going strong 4 years later... the only problem is that I want to get Unix without all the fuss of Linux/FreeBSD... I'm not really worried about the virus a day because procmail takes care of all the attachments at the server level... I think I'm going to hold out for the time being. I'll definitely get the AppleCare when the time comes... Don't think I'll get a refurb... I like that "fresh out of the box" experience... I will keep an eye out, however. As for speed, my current machine is a 650mhz Pentium3 with 512ram, so pretty much anything is going to be a good step up, and I'm sure even VPC will be faster. TjL -- G-Books is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- Check our web site for refurbished PowerBooks | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-Books list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-books.html> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-books%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
