From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 7 8:14:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from lariat.org (lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A919A37B4EC for ; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 08:13:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from mustang.lariat.org (IDENT:ppp0.lariat.org@lariat.org [12.23.109.2]) by lariat.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA17688; Wed, 7 Feb 2001 09:13:36 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20010207085658.04e01630@localhost> X-Sender: brett@localhost X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2001 09:13:23 -0700 To: "Pedro F. Giffuni" , dan@langille.org From: Brett Glass Subject: Re: laptops - perhaps DELL Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3A817135.16771727@pitt.edu> References: <"2001 at 07:29:38AM -0700" <"200102070203.f1723AE27360"@ns1.unixathome.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 09:00 AM 2/7/2001, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote: >The technical support people said that since there is no warranty now >they would charge me $20 only for commenting my problem on the phone! >No idea how much it costs to fix it..but I simply need it now so it'll >have to wait. Laptop manufacturers are infamous for gouging on repairs. HP and IBM are the worst in this regard: long delays and hundreds of dollars. And in most cases you cannot buy parts. I find that, whenever I get a laptop, it pays to buy a defunct one of the same brand (possibly an older model with the same case and keyboard) for parts. This saved me thousands of dollars with my IBM ThinkPad. After my horrendous experience with that unit, I will probably never buy an IBM product again if I can help it. --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message