17" screen AND 200gb drive...? Now that's a machine! Next time I upgrade I will definitely look into the HP. Once I move on from my current employer, I will take a look at that DV9500t you mentioned.
I too upgraded my latest Dell (two 100gb HD's, memory, wireless NIC) although I only had to replace one item under warranty. (knock on wood). About the only trouble I ever had with Dell was when I was in the process of ordering my desktop. I became so frustrated I wanted to reach through the phone, all the way to India, and strangle the person on the other end of the line. About the only real problems I ever had was with the HD's. I keep all of my machines on 24x7 and laptop HD's are not designed for that kind of use. So, every two years I need to replace one of the drives. While the original 8gb IBM SCSI drive that was in my old Dell A610, purchased in 94, is still going strong! -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glenn Siegel Sent: Sunday, July 22, 2007 2:18 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Suggestions for New Laptop. Hi Garry, How's everything? I also liked Dell before I bought my HP, yes Dell has the at home service they send a tech to fix what's broken and something always seems to break. I still have my first Dell laptop and it still works but just about every component was changed at some point during the 4 year warrantee. So for the same money you can get a lot more laptop at HP 200+gig hard drive, 17" high gloss screen, Core 2 Duo processor, I bought the dv8000 in 2006 and love it, never any problems knock wood, the new dv9500t looks awesome, I bet you could run z/OS 1.8 on it lol. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.476 / Virus Database: 269.10.12/910 - Release Date: 7/21/2007 3:52 PM ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html