Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:45:09 Micha Feigin wrote: >>Runner up is Dell, although the hardware seems a bit cheap when looking at >> the drivers (especially the touchpad which tends to be alps which isn't >> up to par with the synaptic). > > I'm happy with my Dell Inspiron E1505. My roommate is happy with his more > recent laptop purchase from Dell. My other roommate likes his Thinkpad, > but it is a much older system, so I can't say that reflects the quality of > current Thinkpads.
I own a Dell Inspiron E1505. I do not recommend it. Get something else (preferably non-Dell). I always have problems with their batteries, video card. No matter how many times I replace the batteries, they seem to go bad after some time. I replaced the battery 3 times. After 3-4 months the battery life will be reduced to less than 1 hour and then after some time, they just don't work. As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, there will be a "blue screen memory map" error after some time. FWIW, the movies work fine in Linux. I searched in google for this and found that the video cards in Dell Inspiron E1505 are defective. In general, I think Dell's hardware is unreliable. They work fine initially. But after 1 year or so, things start to fall apart. This is if you plan to use laptop intensively (say 8-10 hours a day). But if you just use it for 1-2 hours a day, then it's life might be more. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
