[geeks] Which Dell Latitude notebook?

[Fogg, James]

Here's another vote for the IBM Stinkpad. Say what you will about model
inconsistancies and such, they are a solid machine. I use two in daily duty
(600X with Win2K + 600E with Linux). Both travel daily. The Linux support is
excellent.


> You will be much better off with a ThinkPad or a Toshiba.
> 
> > I have a lot of experince with repair of laptops and would 
> not ever reccomend a
> > Dell.
> 
> I'm going to weigh in here with Mike.  My work switched 
> recently from an
> all-thinkpad fleet to using Dell's (well, still switching 
> over).  I like
> the fact that I have 3x the HD space and 4x the memory, but 
> the construction
> on the Dell is NOT as good.  And of the ~40 laptops they've 
> rolled out,
> 7 or 8 have had hard drive failures.
> 
> They went with Dell because they are cheaper and don't ever change the
> internals of a model (or at least not for x months).  So installs are
> just done using ghost now.
> 
> I miss my Thinkpad 600e, that's why I have one on it's way =)
> 
> --Kurt
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