[Gllug] Seeking some laptop advice

[Christopher Hunter]

On Thu, 2009-06-04 at 23:51 +0100, Phil Reynolds wrote:
> Retry with right from address...
> 
> Quoting "Juergen Schinker" <ba1020 at homie.homelinux.net>:
> 
> > I would suggest it is better to approach it from the other side
> >
> > i would ask which vendor you definitely will not buy
> >
> > my advise is never buy a:
> >
> > dell crap
> 
> How are Compaq and Acer? Notable that their models have the number pad  
> but not sure how easily they would meet my needs...

Juergen is wrong about Dell - they used to be quite poor, but these days
they're pretty good for budget machines.

I wouldn't bother with Compaq - they're usually just re-badged things
with a big mark-up and poor support (we had a couple at work, and had no
end of problems with them).  I've got a couple of Acer Aspire netbooks
(who really needs the number pad?), and they're superb once you put a
proper Linux distro on them!

C.

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