Off Topic Lap Top Computer Recommendation

[meadandale]

[quote=patb]the apple macbooks are great value[/quote]

I just bought a new laptop and I couldn’t stomach the Apple Tax. I got a loaded Lenovo T400 for at least five bills less than a comparably configured Macbook Pro.

I installed Ubuntu on it and the thing sings….

[urbanrealtor]

This post is a bit long.
Please read it, because there is a serious question here.

A year and a half ago, I bought a new hp presario v6000 with vista home premium.

Total piece of shit. Took me 2 days to extract all the crippleware that it came with.

After a month of dealing with vista (which I loathe), I decided to downgrade to xp. This was very difficult. Almost everything (including the ethernet port) had a proprietary driver I had to find.

Recently, the motherboard fried (rather common on this model).

I am again using the 2004 dell inspiron 2200 I bought on clearance in 2005. It works great.

Here is my question: I intend to purchase a new dell vostro and downgrade it to xp. Do dells generally have lots of proprietary drivers to deal with?

[urbanrealtor]

This post is a bit long.
Please read it, because there is a serious question here.

A year and a half ago, I bought a new hp presario v6000 with vista home premium.

Total piece of shit. Took me 2 days to extract all the crippleware that it came with.

After a month of dealing with vista (which I loathe), I decided to downgrade to xp. This was very difficult. Almost everything (including the ethernet port) had a proprietary driver I had to find.

Recently, the motherboard fried (rather common on this model).

I am again using the 2004 dell inspiron 2200 I bought on clearance in 2005. It works great.

Here is my question: I intend to purchase a new dell vostro and downgrade it to xp. Do dells generally have lots of proprietary drivers to deal with?

[urbanrealtor]

This post is a bit long.
Please read it, because there is a serious question here.

A year and a half ago, I bought a new hp presario v6000 with vista home premium.

Total piece of shit. Took me 2 days to extract all the crippleware that it came with.

After a month of dealing with vista (which I loathe), I decided to downgrade to xp. This was very difficult. Almost everything (including the ethernet port) had a proprietary driver I had to find.

Recently, the motherboard fried (rather common on this model).

I am again using the 2004 dell inspiron 2200 I bought on clearance in 2005. It works great.

Here is my question: I intend to purchase a new dell vostro and downgrade it to xp. Do dells generally have lots of proprietary drivers to deal with?

[urbanrealtor]

This post is a bit long.
Please read it, because there is a serious question here.

A year and a half ago, I bought a new hp presario v6000 with vista home premium.

Total piece of shit. Took me 2 days to extract all the crippleware that it came with.

After a month of dealing with vista (which I loathe), I decided to downgrade to xp. This was very difficult. Almost everything (including the ethernet port) had a proprietary driver I had to find.

Recently, the motherboard fried (rather common on this model).

I am again using the 2004 dell inspiron 2200 I bought on clearance in 2005. It works great.

Here is my question: I intend to purchase a new dell vostro and downgrade it to xp. Do dells generally have lots of proprietary drivers to deal with?

[urbanrealtor]

This post is a bit long.
Please read it, because there is a serious question here.

A year and a half ago, I bought a new hp presario v6000 with vista home premium.

Total piece of shit. Took me 2 days to extract all the crippleware that it came with.

After a month of dealing with vista (which I loathe), I decided to downgrade to xp. This was very difficult. Almost everything (including the ethernet port) had a proprietary driver I had to find.

Recently, the motherboard fried (rather common on this model).

I am again using the 2004 dell inspiron 2200 I bought on clearance in 2005. It works great.

Here is my question: I intend to purchase a new dell vostro and downgrade it to xp. Do dells generally have lots of proprietary drivers to deal with?

[PCinSD]

Urbanrealtor, I bought a Compaq aka HP about a year and a half ago as well. I hate this friggin’ thing. I’m not as computer literate as many people. But this pos came chuck full of marketing crap and other stuff. Some of it I wasn’t sure if I needed it or not. Very frustrating. I will never purchase a computer like that again.

My previous computer was a used toshiba that came with xp. It worked much better than this compaq with Vista. I was pretty ticked when I saw how Vista worked and looked into getting xp. Never figured out how to do it.

Good luck with that. I’m just glad to not have those worries in a couple of days.

[PCinSD]

Urbanrealtor, I bought a Compaq aka HP about a year and a half ago as well. I hate this friggin’ thing. I’m not as computer literate as many people. But this pos came chuck full of marketing crap and other stuff. Some of it I wasn’t sure if I needed it or not. Very frustrating. I will never purchase a computer like that again.

My previous computer was a used toshiba that came with xp. It worked much better than this compaq with Vista. I was pretty ticked when I saw how Vista worked and looked into getting xp. Never figured out how to do it.

Good luck with that. I’m just glad to not have those worries in a couple of days.

[PCinSD]

Urbanrealtor, I bought a Compaq aka HP about a year and a half ago as well. I hate this friggin’ thing. I’m not as computer literate as many people. But this pos came chuck full of marketing crap and other stuff. Some of it I wasn’t sure if I needed it or not. Very frustrating. I will never purchase a computer like that again.

My previous computer was a used toshiba that came with xp. It worked much better than this compaq with Vista. I was pretty ticked when I saw how Vista worked and looked into getting xp. Never figured out how to do it.

Good luck with that. I’m just glad to not have those worries in a couple of days.

[PCinSD]

Urbanrealtor, I bought a Compaq aka HP about a year and a half ago as well. I hate this friggin’ thing. I’m not as computer literate as many people. But this pos came chuck full of marketing crap and other stuff. Some of it I wasn’t sure if I needed it or not. Very frustrating. I will never purchase a computer like that again.

My previous computer was a used toshiba that came with xp. It worked much better than this compaq with Vista. I was pretty ticked when I saw how Vista worked and looked into getting xp. Never figured out how to do it.

Good luck with that. I’m just glad to not have those worries in a couple of days.

[PCinSD]

Urbanrealtor, I bought a Compaq aka HP about a year and a half ago as well. I hate this friggin’ thing. I’m not as computer literate as many people. But this pos came chuck full of marketing crap and other stuff. Some of it I wasn’t sure if I needed it or not. Very frustrating. I will never purchase a computer like that again.

My previous computer was a used toshiba that came with xp. It worked much better than this compaq with Vista. I was pretty ticked when I saw how Vista worked and looked into getting xp. Never figured out how to do it.

Good luck with that. I’m just glad to not have those worries in a couple of days.

[Doofrat]

From what I’ve seen and experiences from the early 2000s, Gateway had horrible customer service, really really really bad. No idea how it is now, but it was really to the power of three bad back then, so maybe it’s only one or two really’s now.

I even recommended a co-worker against buying a Gateway laptop once because of how bad their customer service was, but he thought they had a good deal. A few months later, they had lost his several month old laptop after he returned it for service and sent him a “new” one with coffee stains on it and crumbs in the keyboard.

[Doofrat]

From what I’ve seen and experiences from the early 2000s, Gateway had horrible customer service, really really really bad. No idea how it is now, but it was really to the power of three bad back then, so maybe it’s only one or two really’s now.

I even recommended a co-worker against buying a Gateway laptop once because of how bad their customer service was, but he thought they had a good deal. A few months later, they had lost his several month old laptop after he returned it for service and sent him a “new” one with coffee stains on it and crumbs in the keyboard.

[Doofrat]

From what I’ve seen and experiences from the early 2000s, Gateway had horrible customer service, really really really bad. No idea how it is now, but it was really to the power of three bad back then, so maybe it’s only one or two really’s now.

I even recommended a co-worker against buying a Gateway laptop once because of how bad their customer service was, but he thought they had a good deal. A few months later, they had lost his several month old laptop after he returned it for service and sent him a “new” one with coffee stains on it and crumbs in the keyboard.

[Doofrat]

From what I’ve seen and experiences from the early 2000s, Gateway had horrible customer service, really really really bad. No idea how it is now, but it was really to the power of three bad back then, so maybe it’s only one or two really’s now.

I even recommended a co-worker against buying a Gateway laptop once because of how bad their customer service was, but he thought they had a good deal. A few months later, they had lost his several month old laptop after he returned it for service and sent him a “new” one with coffee stains on it and crumbs in the keyboard.

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