* Vivek
| On Tue, 21 May 2002, Derek Broughton wrote:
|
| > No flames from me. That pretty much sums it up - price
| > vs. quality. Not a big difference either way, but Dell IS
| > renowned for bad BIOSes. What's the status of IBM support for
| > Linux in the retail market, these days? Dell
|
| They actually ship some laptops with a distro on: I forget which -
| even if you use a different distro, this is worth grabbing as you can
| snaffle any kernel params or binary-only programs that come with.
My box was delivered with Caldera OpenLinux.
| I didn't get linux with my A20p, because they weren't shipping at the
| time, but I'd definitely buy one again - great keyboard, nice mouse
| replacement (a rubber-nipple-thingy as opposed to a trackpad), great
| screen, and nice keyboard (for a laptop). Oh, and 3 mouse buttons.
The latter is just _soo_ good.
(And regarding the Dell vs Thinkpad I can just say that I wore out two
Dell boxen in less than a year, but this IBM T21 has survived more
than a year already (with only one hard drive broken, some memory
slots had to be adjusted and a crack in the plastic). _Very_ nice
box.