[BNM] Laptop recommendations

[Simon Atkinson]

I have to say my last Inspirion was a 6000 and the screen back light  
went after less than 2 years despite mainly using my TFT screen with  
it. £200 + to fix it, not happy.
On 21 May 2007, at 17:35, Richard Maynard / Wessex Networks wrote:

> +1 Inspiron 6000 / 9000 series.
>
> You can't get parts for Sony laptops anywhere other than Sony, and  
> they are
> scandalously expensive.
>
> Unless having a trendy laptop is important to you, I don't think it  
> is worth
> the premium.
>
> Richard.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Alan  
> Braddish
> Sent: 21 May 2007 17:22
> To: 'Brighton New Media'
> Subject: Re: [BNM] Laptop recommendations
>
> I've had the same deal with Sony Vaio - premium rate help lines, and a
> laptop that has been sent back 4 times for a motherboard  
> replacement and
> still doesn't work right - and Sony won't do the honourable thing and
> replace the laptop (for a client that is).
>
> I'd stick with Dell personally.  Highly recommend the Inspiron range.
>
> Alan
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
> [mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Mark Ng
> Sent: 21 May 2007 16:45
> To: Brighton New Media
> Subject: Re: [BNM] Laptop recommendations
>
> Just like to say I had an absolutely horrid time with my last VAIO.
> Died a death after 13 months (looked like IDE controller.).  Tried to
> call Sony to see if I could pay to get it fixed, and when I entered my
> serial number in on a helpline, I was asked to call a premium rate
> number (which then put me on hold for 5 minutes - at which point I
> hung up, angry).  After a couple of bad experiences with other sony
> products, this experience was enough to make me finally boycott all
> Sony products.
>
> Mark
>
> On 21/05/07, Aegir Hallmundur <aegir.hallmundur at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Sony laptops are normally pretty good build quality. They last for  
>> bloody
>> ages too. They come preloaded with absolutely tons of junk like  
>> Norton
>> Nagware so it should be a pleasure to blow it all away with the  
>> cleansing
>> wind of Linux.
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