If you never want to have to worry about problems with it. Get a Dell and the "Complete Care" warranty. You can literally throw your laptop against a wall and they will fix it good as new. Things I have seen them fix, while having to support some employee laptops. * Replaced shattered LCD - multiple times * Replaced smashed keyboard from someone pounding it with their fist, multiple times * Replaced outer casing to fix drop damage * Replace hard disk * Replace motherboard * Replace onboard trackpad and/or mouse buttons * Replace broken USB ports
Basically they fix anything wrong with it, and they come to wherever you/she is to do it. All of the damage above was from abuse, and they still made it just like new. -Charles Mark Phillips wrote: > My oldest is heading off to college in the Fall, and she needs to take > a laptop with her. She has used Linux all her life, but only from > Gnome, so Windows, Mac, Linux are all "the same" to her. She is a > journalist, not a computer geek. Anyway, one significant requirement > is for iTunes to work with her iTouch (i.e. buy music and download to > her iTouch). I have not been able to get Wine/iTunes to work with > Debian, so I have resorted to a single Windows computer just for a few > games and iTunes at home. > > Any recommendations (1) for laptops and (2) how to keep her using > Linux and not shelling out extra bucks for a Mac, or heaven forbid, a > Windows machine? > > Thanks! > > Mark --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
