[thechat] laptops for linux
John Handelaar
john at userfrenzy.com
Wed Nov 9 09:20:08 CST 2005
Judah McAuley wrote:
> Regarding the warranty, I certainly agree with your 6 month figure for
> desktops. Do you think the same is true of laptops? I would think that
> failure would happen post 6 months more often with laptops as they are
> constantly being moved, picked up, set down, etc. I was looking at
> Dell's Complete Care warranty which covers accidents (except fire and
> theft) as well as part failure. I figure that being able to take it to
> the pub or Burningman and not have to worry about beer being spilled in
> the keyboard might be worth a couple bucks extra.
Well, beer errors are a different thing.
For my part, laptops fail in only one of two ways ever:
a) It dropped. Hard disk needed replacing. $60.
b) Screen connector goes wonky. Bit of vaseline and Duck Tape (TM): $1
plus labour
Mostly this is just a preference thing. The extra warranty was never a
couple of bucks, it was two or three hundred more. For lappys we *did*
spend the money, just got docking stations and/or extra batteries instead.
Ugh. Batteries. Are there any that don't suck? </rhetorical>
> As for Ubuntu with kde vs
> Kubuntu, what would the difference be in your mind?
Only that Kubuntu isn't *yet* a first-class citizen. That and the fact
that lots of the nice admin stuff runs under Gnome and afaik kubuntu
doesn't install it by default.
And these days I have these nice manufactured CDs of Ubuntu...
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