[plug] Buying a laptop

[Daniel Pearson]

Leon Brooks wrote:

>On Monday 11 July 2005 18:06, Nathan Alberti wrote:
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>>Having said that I've been impressed with most of the dell's
>>I've seen.
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>Had a mate (since deceased) who got a Dell which wasn't reliable. So 
>after struggling with it for a few months he sent it back. The 
>replacement, same model, had a different *brand* of network chipset and 
>a different *brand* of video chipset - and also didn't work properly. 
>So he sent that one back too. This replacement had the same brand of 
>network chipset as the first one, but a *third* brand of video chipset.
>
>No indication on the case or in the documentation *at*all*. Could be a 
>problem for an only-just-mainstream OS.
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>Cheers; Leon
>
I guess its just the luck of the game, using 3 Dell's (700m is the most 
"thrashed" one) currently and not having a problem with any of them ;-)