2009/3/4 Matt Jones <m...@mattjones.me.uk>: > Dell build has improved recently, apart from the odd cockup. I have a > vostro 1400 that I have had for quite a while now,
I thought the Vostro range were quite recent? So it can't be /that/ old. > The > build still isn't quite as good as my thinkpad, but isn't that far > off, and certainly better than many. Well that's what I was going to compare it with. I'm on my 3rd Thinkpad now. #1 was a 701C, the famous "Butterfly" model with the folding keyboard. 486DX75, 40MB RAM. Apart from me stupidly storing it with batteries fitted, so that they rotted & corroded its contacts, it is still perfectly intact, after a long, hard and heavy life - I got it 2nd hand and it was my main laptop for about 4-5 years. That was 8-9yr ago. Too many manufacturers do stupid things, like screen hinges screwed into the plastic lid, rather than a metal frame. Apple are better than most and even they don't age anywhere near as well as Thinkpads. A laptop need not be build of unobtainium and cost £4K to be robust - it just needs a bit of thought at the design stage and slightly better choice of parts. At the end of the day, if it costs £50 or £100 more but doesn't require a few hundred quid's worth of spares over its life, it's a better deal. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat, Yahoo & Skype: liamproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
