Comment Inspiron 8000 (Score 1) 69
Despite my annoyance in Dell's cutting Linux support off for their laptops, they still seem to have top of the line.
I'm running SuSE 7.3, vanilla kernel 2.2.17 -- later added on the premptible kernel patch.
My beef is my 3-year support contract will run out later this year. Taught me: always buy the 3 year on-site service contract. It is worth it. I had hinge problems so bad on my 7500 that they upgraded me to a 8000 for free since they were paying more to service the bad hinge design on the 7500 than I paid for it. The 'send-in' warrantee would have been worthless.
Only problems since then...um 1 disk replace (backups are good). And the "mode" keys (shift, ctl), seem to send stray mouse clicks/motions when held down). This happens in both Windows and Linux, so it may be a HW or BIOS problem.
Anyway -- right now, in their 2-3K price range their top of the line is little better than I have now, so it's a bum to think about upgrading.
Haven't found any laptops with memory >512M, nor multi CPU. Simply wanked up processors (which wouldn't even get me 2x and marginally larger HD's (40-50G I think is the range now, but I haven't checked their site in a while.
I think all their laptops are made in China and rebranded -- forget the company name though.
Linda
I'm running SuSE 7.3, vanilla kernel 2.2.17 -- later added on the premptible kernel patch.
My beef is my 3-year support contract will run out later this year. Taught me: always buy the 3 year on-site service contract. It is worth it. I had hinge problems so bad on my 7500 that they upgraded me to a 8000 for free since they were paying more to service the bad hinge design on the 7500 than I paid for it. The 'send-in' warrantee would have been worthless.
Only problems since then...um 1 disk replace (backups are good). And the "mode" keys (shift, ctl), seem to send stray mouse clicks/motions when held down). This happens in both Windows and Linux, so it may be a HW or BIOS problem.
Anyway -- right now, in their 2-3K price range their top of the line is little better than I have now, so it's a bum to think about upgrading.
Haven't found any laptops with memory >512M, nor multi CPU. Simply wanked up processors (which wouldn't even get me 2x and marginally larger HD's (40-50G I think is the range now, but I haven't checked their site in a while.
I think all their laptops are made in China and rebranded -- forget the company name though.
Linda
