I've had a Dell Inspiron 3200 for about 2 years. Of course, the guts are totaly
different from the 5000e (so I won't bother talking about the internals) but I've had
a couple of problems with the quality of construction:
(1) Both of the plastic hinges, which connect the LCD to the main box, cracked badly
after about 1-1.5 years. A little JB Weld fixed them quite nicely, but this shouldn't
have happened so quickly.
(2) The outer conductor on the power supply cable (low voltage side) broke after about
1.5 years. The wire was just too brittle for use in a cable that gets folded and
unfolded alot.
Granted, these were easy and cheap problems to fix, they occurred at points which
receive alot of stress, and Dell may have improved the quality of construction in
their laptops. All the same, if I was going to buy a new laptop right now, I think
I'd look somewhere else -- maybe the ThinkPad.
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Larry Grover, PhD
Assoc Prof of Physiology
Marshall Univ Sch of Med
On Sun, 29 Oct 2000 09:05:00 -0500, Jason Costomiris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I've already been to the Linux-Laptop site. It's a fantastic resource
> for seeing what does and does not work on various models. I'm more
> interested in some specific feedback from people using some specific
> hardware, so I can better decide what I'd like to buy before plopping a
> few thousand bucks down on a mistake. :-)
>
> The candidates:
>
> 1) IBM ThinkPad A20p
> 2) Dell Inspiron 5000e
> 3) HP Omnibook 6000
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