Re: Yet another "what laptop should I buy?" question

[<jmarant@nerim.net>]

Martin F Krafft <madduck@debian.org> a écrit :

> also sprach Calum Mackay &amp;lang=fr">calum.mackay@sun.com>
> [2002.12.13.1107 +0100]:
> > Out of interest, why not?
> > 
> > I've had an Inspiron 7500, and now have a Latitude C400. Both have 
> > worked very well with unstable.
> 
> Because Dell is really dropping in Quality. I've had Dells all my life
> and noticed this trend. While the CPi-A from four years ago was a cool
> laptop, my current C610, the C800, and the Inspiron 4000 are pathetic.
> ACPI is not implemented at all, the things are very loud because APM
> is not standards-compliant (it works with windoze) only, and the Dell
> service is pissing me off!
> 
> It's just apparent that Dell is Windoze-only and doing as much as
> they can to make it harder and harder for users of other OSs. Plus the
> fact that I am forced to feel neglected, because even though I own
> like 11 Dells, I am only a small-scale user and thus unimportant.
> 
> Also, the laptops break a lot. That never happened to me with IBMs.

I won't go for Dell then :-)

Cheers,

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