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Posted by Winged on September 29, 2005, 9:32 pm
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> Any Comments on Dell Laptops or Notebooks as they are called....
> Is this a good reliable make ?
> Any Pitfall's - and thing to avoid ?
> Always good to ask before parting with lots of cash.........
> Help Please.......
> John
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They push zeros and ones effectively.
Hardware security is non-existent, but may be a non issue to most.
We have used Dell Laptops in extreme environments (heat and sand) and
they have held up over time almost as well as semi hardened systems.
They don't work well after river swims and I would avoid dropping them
from a 6 ft ladder to concrete floor with system on, the cases will
break and the HDD and CD/DVD drives tend to become inop from shock,
sometimes the motherboard and batteries may will fail. Tanks running
over the top of system tends to crush system, however I heard one fell
about 100 feet from a helicopter in the carry case (cheapest) and Laptop
survived operational.
From a system perspective they have good business class video and
standard I/O. If you are planning on using box to frag opponents in the
latest death match..you probably better off with a desktop system. I
have had exp with several hundred of their systems over several
generations and Dell Laptop systems are competent. Our standard life
cycle is 3 years. I have one 400 Mhz Dell(originally ran win98) that
still runs Linux flawlessly. The Dell laptops I have worked with all
seem to be able to run either windows or Linux. This compatibility is a
major issue in laptops as several vendors have issues with Linux. The
Dell may not be the fastest performance wise but the hardware is usually
reasonably mature and stable. Their support has been good and work with
large orgs with tech shops reasonably well.
Without knowing the mission requirement of the laptop it is a bit
difficult to answer your question.
There are a number of sites on the net that review such things, this
newsgroup really isn't one of them, however you got my opinion of their
systems anyway.
Your mileage may vary and objects may be closer than they appear.
Winged
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