[geeks] Which Dell Latitude notebook?

[William S .]

Thank you for the advice. I am looking at the refurbs that
IBM offers at their site. They have a few 600E's that will
probably be OK for me. 

366Mhz Pentium II 6.4 GB 128MB RAM 13.3" TFT

Bill

On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 11:32:45AM -0500, Kurt Huhn wrote:
> 
> I haven't really liked a Thinkpad model since the 770.  I can't really weigh
> in with any authority on any other models, except the "i" series - which
> I've found to suck beyond all suckiness.  We have several different "i"
> series laptops at Bungo, all in various stages of disrepair.
> 
> When I got to Bungo, I spec'd out some Dell Inspiron 8000 laptops for me and
> and one of the developers - and he thanks me weekly for it :)
> 
> Brand loyalties aside, I'm sure that Dell and IBM both make excellent
> laptops - but the quality of case design is directly proportionate to the
> base price of the model.  The "i" series Thinkpads were inexpensive, the
> Inspiron 8000 was not.  I find the 8000 to be a very solid case design - no
> problems at all.
> 
> That said - my work Inspiron 8000 runs SuSE 7.2 flawlessly - including the
> modem.  My home 8000 runs Win2k - for games mostly.
>