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I need a new laptop. The HP NX6125 sounds like my type of machine. Jay On 4/28/06, Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote: > > On Friday 28 April 2006 11:57 am, Matej Cepl wrote: > > I am somehow happy with Dell Inspiron 2200. The price was really sweet > > ($600 after rebate), wifi works with ndiswrapper on Debian/unstable > > (currently sitting in Stata at my wife's office :-)). The only problem > is > > that keyboard is really crappy. Falling apart just after less than year > > of service. > A couple of things I did not mention about the HP NX6125. The first is > that > the one I bought had a full 3 year manufacturer's warranty I did not know > about when I bought it. (I believe that Dell systems have 90 days). I have > not had the unit long enough to break the keyboard. > My previous Compaq Presario laptop I bought in about 2000 has been banged > on, dropped, and generally treated poorly. It's been used for teaching at > Northeastern, BLU meetings and installfests, trips to various nefarious > locations. The only thing wrong with it is that the power jack is a bit > loose as the result of a fall from a table. A rubber band serves to keep > it > up. > -- > Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> > Boston Linux and Unix user group > http://www.blu.org PGP key id:C5061EA9 > PGP Key fingerprint:053C 73EC 3AC1 5C44 3E14 9245 FB00 3ED5 C506 1EA9 > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > Discuss at blu.org > http://olduvai.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.blu.org/pipermail/discuss/attachments/20060504/7094d0b1/attachment.html>
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