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On 02/25/2006 07:31 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> On 2/25/06, A. Khattri <ajai at bway.net> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Thinkpad's are great for running Linux on (there is a Linux on Thinkpads
>> mailing list that is useful). I think Dell laptop's are pretty flimsy in
>> comparison though.
>>
> 
> I have no way of knowing whether Dell has corrected the problem, but
> ... my company had very high fallout with Dell desktops and laptops
> over the past year. I don't remember the laptop problems, but the
> desktops have flaky capacitors (they begin to ooze stuff within a
> year), motherboards in general, and power supplies.
> 
> Needless to say, our company now has a contract with HP which means we
> get ATI-crap (from the Linux standpoint) video. You can't win.

I assume you mean servers, as HP most definitely builds & sells 
workstations with NVIDIA videocards.

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