Re: "Ivy League"

On Thu, 18 Dec 2008 20:58:22 -0500, T <kd1s.nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

In article <Xns9B76ED2D76760f99a49ed1d0c49c5bbb2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
XXXusenet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx says...
Ken Rudolph <kenru@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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David W. Fenton wrote:

I've been directing my all my clients to get ThinkPads for the
past 4 years or so, and all of them have been really happy.
Previously, some bought Dells (against my recommendation) and
have uniformly been disappointed.

I'm tired of hearing you constantly harp on this one. I've had
two Dell laptops, 4 years with my old one and 3 years and counting
with the present one.

That's two laptops.

During my career I've seen at least 200 Dell laptops and well over 600
desktops. The desktops failed at a far greater rate than the laptops.

Of those 200 laptops only six had motherboards replaced, and most of
that was due to the fact that we didn't have port replicators for them
so plugging and unplugging the ethernet cord every day eventually wore
down the connector pins.

The desktops on the other hand, 14 had memory issues. 12 had hard drive
issues.

I've had two Dell desktops and one Dell laptop. My personal experience is that
all three have worked reasonably well (despite being Windows boxes--and I
curse the day I upgraded my current desktop to Vista) and the one time I had a
problem with the laptop, I bought a replacement fan from eBay, took the
machine apart completely and replaced the fan, and darn it, didn't it work
well afterwards! I was totally surprised by that.

The original Dell desktop is now HWMBO's machine, and I have a server as my
desktop machine. Both have maximum RAM, lots of hard drives and peripherals,
and one runs 24/7 when Vista hasn't rebooted itself in the middle of the night
(I know, I'm not green),

My personal experience with Dell has been good. I realise that others may not
have had such good experiences. That is OK. I will continue to buy Dell
machines (barring some really stupid move on their part).

As for Macs, I have an iMac upstairs (the original one, green case, CD holder
rather than slot) which I upgraded to maximum RAM (again, bought on eBay) and
an 80GB HDD through looking at pictures on a website and following the
instructions. I am running OS X on it with minimum apps as it's mostly for use
by our houseguests (it's in the spare bedroom). My small amount of experience
with it (normally simple surfing) is that the interface is OK, and I can use
it, but I just prefer the Windows GUI probably because that's what I've been
using for years. Old dog, new tricks, you get my drift.

If I had to use it I would use it and get used to it. But, I'm unlikely to buy
a Mac for my next principal machine.

Disclaimer: I do not pretend to want to dictate anyone else's preferences in
the realm of computers. I speak only for myself (and for HWMBO, for whom I got
the iMac before I bought the new Dell and moved the old desktop over to
him--he tried the Mac and didn't like it at all and demanded a Windows
machine, thus the new machinery).

BTW, I like Ubuntu 8.10, mildly dislike Fedora 10 (runs like a pig on the same
laptop (not the Dell) that Ubuntu flies on), and dislike Solaris 10 (on the
Sun Ultra Sparcstation I bought a few years ago).

Can we now expand the religious war to include UNIX and Linux's many variants?

Chris "I'm tired of just reading about Windows and Macs." Hansen
--
Chris Hansen | chrishansenhome at btinternet dot com
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I learned from my cat." Mike Jankulak
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