OT: notebook shopping

[Vaughn Treude]

Wayne Davis wrote:
> Dell's Latitude series are the proven workhorses of their lineup.
> 

Good advice, I made the mistake of looking in the "Home" section rather 
than "Small business". I can get a Latitude D830 for about the same 
price ($1467) but with an extra 2 GB of RAM.  (That's 8X what I've 
currently got on the Sony.) That's all the same features as the $2100 
Mac Book, except the drive is 80 GB smaller - and another $95 will get 
me a drive that's _almost_ the same size.

> When you buy one, buy it as a SMALL BUSINESS CUSTOMER and GET the 
> complete care and next biz day service.

Doubt I'll need it. The Sony's my fourth notebook, and the worst mishap 
on any of them was damaging the hinges on a Winbook during a bumpy ride 
in a Ryder truck to LA. Then again, I hope I don't curse myself by 
saying that. :-)

Vaughn

> With complete care, if you "accidentally" leave it on your car roof and 
> the drive over it, they WILL replace it (provided you send all the 
> pieces back to them. The next biz day service will get you a repair 
> ONSITE by a tech within a couple biz days depending on when you call 
> tech support to report the problem. You can get up to 5 yrs of warranty. 
> They have EXCELLENT diagnostics tools. BUT, if you change the OS, they 
> will NOT support the OS. You CAN get it with ubuntu installed though. 
> One other thing. You can also get "computrace" that will help recover 
> your baby should some heartless sob relieve you of it. Cool thing about 
> it is. Once activated it CANNOT be turned off.... EVER.
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