Re: [linux-audio-user] intel core 2 duo and amd turion 64x2

On Saturday 10 March 2007 11:50 pm, david wrote: > Frank wrote: >> david wrote: >>> carmen wrote: >>>> On Fri Mar 09, 2007 at 07:43:00PM -1000, david wrote: >>>>> ljc(a)internet.com.uy wrote: >>>>>> hello list, i intend to buy a new laptop, and i'm undecided >>>>>> <snip> >>>> if Apple is selling a notebook for $1099 and HP is selling the >>>> same thing for $599, i'd get the HP - call me crazy >>> HP is NOT selling the same quality as Apple. You get what you pay >>> for. >> If you're in the habit of occasionally challenging your >> preconceptions do this little experiment: Visit Dell, just for >> convenience - or pick another if you wish, and configure a laptop >> with the same features and specs as a MacBook Pro - ignore the >> elegance of the OS and its heart of BSD...even ignore the >> simplicity and speed with which it runs multiple GNU/Linux distros >> in nothing more difficult or risky than a simple file constituting >> a Parallels Desktop VM, and get back to us with either a >> verification of your comparison factor or a new-found appreciation >> for the value of opinions based upon verifiable facts. > My opinion of HP/Compaq is based on my verifiable experience with > them. Not a preconception. > > My experience with Dell - having spent 11 years on a corporate Help > Desk during the time the corporation switched from IBM Thinkpads to > Dell laptops - is also based on facts. The number of hardware > problems reported to the help desk for Dell laptops was five times > higher than we had reported for the IBM laptops. Even OLD Thinkpads > had fewer problem reports than NEW Dell laptops. > > That may have changed since IBM is no longer the quality determiner > for their old brand.

For now I'll take an "old, outdated system" that works for me rather than the latest, greatest.