Re: [tlug] Newbie buying a computer and installing Linux on it

[Joseph Essertier <essertier@example.com>]

Okay.  Thanks, Lyle.  I'm not going to get Windows 98.  W2K sounds like 
a good bet.

Do you have the phone or fax number for Otto?
Joe

>
>
>>   In that case, a used laptop bought in Japan might be ideal, but i'd 
>> want to have some kind of service, where if the hard drive burnt out 
>> on it or something, i could return it or they'd put in a new drive 
>> for me.  At least like a one-year warrantee.  Do Japanese used 
>> computer stores even offer warrantees like that on used computers?
>
>
>
> The used shop I'd recommend (Otto) has warranties on most (not all) of 
> their stuff, but usually only 30 days, not one year.  I've bought 
> several computers there, and only had trouble with two.  One a laptop 
> that they let me exchange for another one when I demonstrated the 
> problem, and the other a desktop that burned out (it shuts itself down 
> before even the BIOS can start up....) at day 40.  That was my only 
> bad experience with computers acquired there.  (I'm writing this on a 
> Y2,000 yen computer that I stumbled upon in a different shop - bought 
> with no guarantee at all, but luckily it worked/works fine - after I 
> put in a hard drive and more memory that is.)
>
> Lyle
>
>