Re: [tlug] Hard drive failure

["Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon" <ronfaxon@example.com>]

Josh Glover wrote:

> I've had bad luck with Dell boxen and hardware failures. Which would
> be fine, except that I have had *extremely* bad luck with their
> customer service. So bad that I will never buy or recommend a Dell
> again.
>
> The only good thing about Dell, IMO, is that they place pricing
> pressure on the other computer vendors, like IBM (who still makes
> durable, dependable machines, AFAIK).
>  
Things change.  When I was at a PR company in 2000, the IBM machines 
they had (Aptiva - from 1998-99) were junk (from a serviceability 
standpoint that is), the Dell boxes (from 1999 - 2000) were much better, 
and the service from Dell was excellent.....  I've always liked IBM 
laptops (good keyboards), but haven't heard - until now - anyone 
enthusiastic about them.  What models of IBM do you recommend (both new 
and used).  From my standpoint, I recommend year 2000 OptiPlexes 
(reliable, easy to service), but they're getting a bit old.....
Lyle