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

[Niels Kobschätzki <n.kobschaetzki@example.com>]

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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