Re: new laptop recommendations?
On Saturday 14 August 2004 10:46, Micha Feigin was heard to say:
> When it works, the Sony is fine, its just that they have one of the
> worst customer service of any company in the world, and they are
> clinically paranoid of wares, to the point that they cripple on
> half descent piece of hardware the produce.
I have a Sony Vaio GRT-170. I couldn't agree with you more. Very
little of the APM functionality works, pretty much just power-off.
The beautiful screen, built in Wifi, 64M of non-shared VideoRAM on
AGP, amazing "everything" combination CD and DVD+/- RW... It's a
wonderful machine.
And also, this wonderful piece of hardware has no way to clean the fan
or thermal fins except to mail it in for "repair" for at least a week
and, as the people on the "support" phone told me, "expect to have
the hard disk reformatted."
Because the fan is dusty. I've let it go so long that, indeed, the
machine does overheat and shut itself off because the fins are dusty.
Talk about a design flaw!
> Have a look at http://www.emperorlinux.com/ for example.
Also http://www.linuxcertified.com/ pre-installs Debian.
Curt-
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