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Re: [tlug] linux@example.com How many widely can we do that?



On Oct 25, 2009, at 2:38 PM, Christian Horn wrote:

On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 02:10:49PM +0100, Niels Kobschätzki wrote:
On Oct 25, 2009, at 1:59 PM, Curt Sampson wrote:

Indeed, you ought. Thinkpads have better ergonomics, anyway, and for
development, the i7 is a wonderful and yet fairly inexpensive thing.

Ehm…get a Dell - far better support than Lenovo and the Latitude- series
are really fine machines.
Had a lot of trouble with Lenovo-support and Dell business-support is
just great.

My workplaces Dell D850 makes funny noises when opened, also the
TrackPoint is missing that thinkpads have.

The Latitudes I had in my hands (E4300, E6400 and E6500) have all a Trackpoint, I think even the X2 (Tablet-PC) has one but I'm not sure about that one.
As I said: get a Latitude - I didn't say anything about other series.

Thats not to say Lenovos current thinkpads are perfect thou, the fan
in my x200 gets not tuned down by firmware after heat-producing work
is finished, on linux one has to do that with a daemon.

The X200 is a very nice machine.
I talked about support - the guys you have to call when your machine breaks down. In my opinion the Latitude-series and the X- and T-series from the Thinkpad-brand are equally good. But support-wise Dell seems to be a ahead of anyone else in the business. In the last year or two anytime we had trouble with a Thinkpad the support sucked big time. With Dell except one time the Dell-technician came in next morning and repaired the machine (and that one time it needed one day longer). *But* I can talk here only about business-level-support, not about consumer- support (which I guess is in both cases worse) That's my experience from Germany but because both corporations work globally I doubt that there is that much of a difference.

Niels

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