[ILUG] Laptop Recommendation?

[Darragh Sherwin]

Hi,

My company bought me a new Dell Laptop about 6 weeks ago.

When I took the laptop out of it's box and powered it up for the first 
time, it kept on failing.
After 6 hours of fiddling, a lose DIMM was the cause.

Then 3 weeks later, my hard disk packed up, Dell had to send out a new 
hard disk which took over 12 days to arrive.

The Dell laptop keyboard feels pretty plastic, and even the lettering on 
the keys looks like a kiddes rub-on tattoo.

If I had to go for an x86 based laptop, I'd probably go for a Compaq.

(How about a PowerBook with Bochs http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ ? )

Just my 2 cents.

Darragh


Justin wrote:

> Would anyone recommend one of the these over the other?
> 
> Dell  Inspiron  9100 (special offer)
> http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/inspn_9100?c=
> ie&l=en&s=dhs
> 
> Sony VAIO PCG-K115S
> http://www.peats.ie/cgi-bin/shop/db.cgi?view=1&id=7585&type=6&path=14x164x43
> 3
> 
> It will be a dual boot  Redhat 9 / windows2000, used for development work.
> Seen a few posts about the ATI Mobility Radeon with Linux, but mostly very
> high res. issues. Anyone know of any issues? Alternatives?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Justin
> 

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Darragh Sherwin
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