I'm considering a new laptop, looking for experiences.

Shawn O'Shea shawn at eth0.net
Fri Apr 13 12:56:40 EDT 2012


On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:48 PM, David Ohlemacher <ohlemacher at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> I looked at Dell and bought a Precision M6500 I7.  Dell gives us pretty
> good corp discounts. It is currently running LMDE(xfce).  It has been
> great.  We have several, others running Windoze.    One coworker has had
> nothing but trouble.   Dell shipped bad memory in many machines and it took
> months for Dell to identify and fix. That was months of blue screens for
> him. You would think Dell would keep track of what brand parts were in what
> machines.  It was some Israeli brand no one ever heard of. Many complained
> on the forums.   I had the good memory.   Two weeks ago his drive died.
> Just clicked when turned on.  Now his 'windows restored' OS is leaking
> memory and crashes daily.  Takes about 6 hrs to leak 3.3 GB before
> crashing.  I have to quietly laugh at the last part.
>
>
We've had some people with no issues with the M6500 and some with nothing
but trouble (a lot of overheating issues) so I steer clear of them and
their updated cousin the M6600. The M4x00 series (M4500 and M4600) have
been much more well behaved.

I have years of positive experience with Dell Latitudes (the D series for a
long time, and recent years the E series, primarily the E6510 and E6520).
We run Windows XP, Windows 7 and Linux on them. Most of my end users use
Ubuntu or Fedora.

I've never had a particularly good experience with an Inspiron. They build
quality and components quality does not seem to be terribly great.

-Shawn
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