Isn't Alienware targeted mainly for gamers? Of course, gamers deserve good
hardware too.
I bought a Fujitsu E4000 laptop. It did have one flaw out of the box - the
touch pad scroll wheel would only scroll one way. Fujitsu's tech support
was good. I got to speak to a good support tech who spoke my language
without a thick accent. After following the standard script (which
actually wasn't brain-dead), she concluded it was a hardware problem and
gave me an RMA number. I returned the laptop and got it back within a
week, fixed. And it was the same unit. I would recommend Fujitsu.
The most equivalent current Fujitsu model I see is the E8000D. It has
parallel and serial ports.
Disclaimer: I have no financial interest in Fujitsu. I just like my
Fujitsu laptop.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had the same concerns so I bought an Alienware laptop. 2 weeks after this
screaming fast beautiful system was up and running the hard drive system
failed. My 3 year on site support contract meant nothing. 3 weeks of calls 3
times a day and no cable to repair the problem. The cable was not the problem.
I finally had to do a chargeback with the credit card company to get a refund.
I will not recommend them for a system you need to do serious work on.
Larry
From: Bagotronix Tech Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 2006/01/03 Tue PM 01:17:05 EST
To: Protel EDA Discussion List <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [PEDA] Testing Boards?
The problem you will have with any USB adapter is the 1 millisecond latency
of the USB link. It will not be possible to toggle a pin state faster than
that. That's why it's important to have real parallel and serial ports
if you do that kind of work. When I bought a laptop last year a real
serial port and a real parallel port were 2 must-have features. I had to
disqualify any unit that didn't have them both.
If your laptop has PCMCIA slots, you could use a parallel/serial PCMCIA
adapter. That would function like a "real" port.
Best regards,
Ivan Baggett
Bagotronix Inc.
website: www.bagotronix.com
Bob Wirka wrote:
Could someone give a recommendation for a device that will allow me to
add ttl-style I/O to a PC or laptop?
Now that parallel ports have gone the way of serial ports, I can't
bit-bang a parallel port anymore.
I've done a poor-man's SPI port, JTAG programmer, and other tasks using
the parallel port, and would like to do some of this with my laptop sans
parallel port. Is there a logic analyzer or some other device out there
that could be plugged into a USB port to provide bit-bangable I/O?
Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Bob Wirka
Realtime Control Works
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