Mike, et al,
I've had pretty good luck with the two Sony Vaios I use here at work. They seem to run Linux pretty well, and have been reliable, too. However, anyone looking to purchase one should know about Sony's repair policy. You must ship the laptop to a location (they will give you the address, but not a phone number) in California where *all* US laptops with the Sony label on them are repaired. Period. End of sentence. No time or cost estimates are given. If you have anything valuable or classified on the hard drive, too bad. You better copy it or remove it. I managed to drop a phone (old style and heavy) onto my keyboard and break a keycap. The Sony party line was that I had to ship them the computer to replace a keycap. Government instructions for removal of classified data from a computer hard drive end with grinding the disk material to powder and burning the residue, so erasing the disk wasn't an option. Nor was doing without the computer for an unspecified amount of time while we were supposed to be using it for testing. Significant intervention from Micro Warehouse (where I bought it and many other things as a government credit card holder) got them to send me a new keyboard, but it took several months and something akin to an act of congress to convince Sony that this should be done. Now, I've had no other problems with either Vaio, and this one was of my own making. So they are pretty reliable. But be aware that repairs can be a problem. In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, Tom :-}) +----------------------------------------------------------+ | Thomas A. Condon email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Computer Engineer phone: (360) 315-7609 | | Barbershop Bass Singer Sailor and Singer of Chanties | | Left Handed and In My Right Mind | +----------------------------------------------------------+ /"\ \ / X ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN - AGAINST HTML MAIL / \ _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
