From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Aug 13 7:32: 8 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (ns.mt.sri.com [206.127.79.91]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4148314F05 for ; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 07:32:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA27574; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:30:44 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id IAA10398; Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:30:43 -0600 Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 08:30:43 -0600 Message-Id: <199908131430.IAA10398@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Terje Elde Cc: Brian Somers , freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Which laptop? Any comment on the vaios? In-Reply-To: <19990813093056.A19818@mordor.xti.org> References: <199908121708.SAA04631@keep.lan.Awfulhak.org> <19990813093056.A19818@mordor.xti.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Anyways, I have a feeling most ppl run into these kinds of shit no matter > which laptop they buy, anyone have any positive reports? We've had *tremendous* luck with ThinkPads. My company bought a boatload of them (100 or so...) for a govt. project, drilled a number of holes in them so we could use external batteries, and then handed them out to 18 year old army guys during field excercises. As you can imagine, they were dropped, kicked, spit on, and had all sort of weirdness done to them. They fixed/replaced every one of them that got broken (after a while they finally got the message that the holes we put in the cases were intentional, cause they kept sending us 'fixed' cases for the first 4-5). Even a year after the boxes were out of date and the Trackpoints were going bad they fixed them for free. In short, IBM has been great. Yes, they are expensive, but as long as you buy them from IBM (and not from someplace like RadioShack that claims to do its own warranty work), then you'll get great service. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message