<div><span style="font-size: 12px;">The only way I would recommend Dell laptops is with the unconditional warranty for as many years as you plan to have the machine. When I had Dells, that warranty was invaluable. On average I had the screen, power supply, keyboard, bezel, dvd drive, and hard drive all replaced at least a couple times. They ship it to you in a couple days though, so it wasn't that painful.</span>
</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 12px;">Still, for a great laptop experience, I can't really recommend anything other than a MacBook Pro. They run UNIX, and if you want an open-source OS, my understanding is that Ubuntu at least runs pretty well on them.</span></div>
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<p style="color: #A0A0A8;">On Wednesday, January 9, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Richard S. Crawford wrote:</p>
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<span><div><div><div dir="ltr">My Dell desktop has served me well for about five years at this point. No sign of slowing down. Still, I probably won't go to them for a new laptop.<div><br></div><div style="">My thanks to everyone who weighed in on this question. I have much to ponder.</div>
</div><div><br><br><div>On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:11 AM, Chris Evans <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:axiomfinity@ymail.com" target="_blank">axiomfinity@ymail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="auto"><div>Dell is cheap but I think they use substandard parts </div><div>So you get what you pay for</div>
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<br><br>Sent from my iPad</div><div><div><div><br>On Jan 7, 2013, at 10:42 AM, Darth Borehd <<a href="mailto:darth.borehd@gmail.com" target="_blank">darth.borehd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
<div>Call Dell. They have Linux laptops and no O/S laptops (actually they come with freedos) available. <br><br><br><br><br><br><div>On 6 January 2013 10:44, jim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jim@well.com" target="_blank">jim@well.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite"><div><br>
For the last five or so years I've bought<br>
my machines from Zareason in Berkeley. I<br>
like them because they thoroughly vet the<br>
matches of distros and machines.<br>
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On Sun, 2013-01-06 at 17:00 +0100, Vincenzo Ampolo wrote:<br>
> On 01/05/2013 11:15 PM, Richard S. Crawford wrote:<br>
> > I haven't bought a new laptop in years and now I'm considering one.<br>
> > Does anyone have a preferred vendor, hopefully one where I can buy a<br>
> > laptop that doesn't have a certain OS pre-installed?<br>
> Some dells come with ubuntu ;)<br>
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