[COLUG] Laptop Recommendations

[Duane]

Thomas W. Cranston wrote:
> My neighbor is asking for laptop recommendations. She was thinking of
> getting another Dell, but I told her to consider Toshiba. I then had
> second thoughts, as I do not know much about their service, or parts
> availability. I am not real big on Dell, but can get Dell parts a lot
> easier than the average Joe.

I have a sony and while they may have a lot of downsides, I can't fault
them really with their support, they sent out a couple of replacement
hdd's once I convinced them the hdd was making clicks of death noises
after I had problems reading the drive.

After I wasn't able to replace the hdd, they sent a tech out and
replaced the hdd and motherboard and haven't had an issue since.

That a side, in future I'm thinking (I thought it was Philips but seems
to be Panasonic) sell a toughbook range, that are rugged laptops, think
military/mining/agriculture etc, and are usable outside in broad
daylight apparently, I've simply had too many flimsy laptops have bits
break off that really shouldn't, but there is a premium etc.

> I am in a middle of a project, and do not have a lot of time to peruse
> the Toshiba options. Most of what I saw came w/Vista. I would prefer to
> find something new that has XP on it as opposed to Vista. Not big on XP
> either, but it looks good compared to Vista. This person is extremely
> technology challenged even though she has several Masters Degrees. That
> is why Linux would not be a good mix for her regardless of Ubuntu. She
> has a lot of business applications that are Windoze based, and is stuck
> in that world.

A lot of companies that offer laptops with vista have a downgrade to XP
option available too many people just didn't want vista, who'd a thunk it.

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