[Cialug] OT: what computer....

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

I've had/have 20 differant dell laptops and never had a problem. My
guess is that this is like the hard drive argument.



On Fri, 2006-03-10 at 14:52, chris129 at cs.iastate.edu wrote:
> Tell them not to buy it at Best Buy and wish them luck!
> 
> It doesn't matter what they buy now they'll:
> 1.)  Want Vista in 2 years.
> 2.)  Have to pay someone to reload it in 18 months.
> 3.)  Probably have utterly destroyed it with spyware within 2 months (I'm
> assuming it's a home computer).
> 
> I usually tell people to go for Dell desktops and to avoid their laptops like
> the plague.  Buy a Thinkpad or a Toshiba (or Apple if you want something
> approximating a useful OS).
> And if they do buy a Dell, I usually recommend the long warranty.  Unless they
> just like buying computers often!
> 
> 
> 
> There's also the cop-out option:  "Do I look like the kid down the street?  I
> deal with big iron lady, I don't even know how to turn a PC on!"  Or, mine. 
> "I'm a programmer not a pc repairman."  Then there's also, "What's Microsoft
> and Dell?"
> 
> Quoting "Nathan C. Smith" <smith at ipmvs.com>:
> 
> > 
> > Inevitably you get asked the question by a family member or somebody at
> > work: what computer should I get?  Is Dell OK?
> > 
> > I always shrug.
> > 
> > To me telling somebody to go to dell is akin to sending somebody to Wal-Mart
> > or Microsoft and hanging them out to dry.
> > 
> > And just to keep this off-thread, and Linux out of the picture, let's say
> > Apple is not an option.  This person wants "Microsoft".
> > 
> > What do you do?
> > 
> > -Nate
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