Some of the companies and laptops with negative reviews in this post are interesting to me. I've owned and loved many of them. I've noticed this since I bought a Packard Bell back in '94 or so. My friends bashed the company and the product, but it worked great for me. I was even able to install a new modem despite them being sure it would never work. I wonder if it has to do with the user, a bad factory run, or fate. Maybe I'm just lucky.
On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Joseph Hall <perlho...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Jeff Jibson <jeff.jib...@parentlink.net> > wrote: > > I will avoid HP like the plague.... > > > > For a smaller laptop, I have really like my Acer 1810t... > > > > On that note, I will never give buy an ASUS notebook. A few jobs ago, > I was purchased what I assume to be a very expensive gaming notebook. > It had a fancy paint job on it, and a nifty LED display just above the > keyboard, and that's where anything awesome ended. The "monster sound" > speakers were crap, the screen wasn't great, and I was endlessly > annoyed by the POST sound being an explosion that couldn't be turned > off without crippling all system sounds. Linux support was horrific. I > was into Ubuntu at the time, and I never could get it installed. > RHEL/CentOS would install, but I had no network support, but I finally > did manage to get Fedora running (with partial network support). At > some point early on, I upgraded the kernel, and the screen got > progressively darker with each reboot. I never did get used to the > keyboard. > > I ended up just switching back to my personal Thinkpad for pretty much > everything but company email, some surfing, and the occasional > resource-intensive job that I didn't want running on my own computer > (which was slower, but significantly more functional). I was sad to > leave that job, but not the notebook which, by that point, hadn't even > been powered on for several months. > > Still running the same Thinkpad, though. > > -- > "In order to create, you have to have the willingness, the desire to > be challenged, to be learning." -- Ferran Adria (speaking at Harvard, > 2011) > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
