laptop

[Timothy Rose]

Just bust the ac input socket on my laptop and they want Ł115 for a new
part! Hard drive also noisy so had ordered a new one as well.

Now considering a replacement. What laptop manufacturers does anyone
recommend (or not!)

Thanks

Tim

[`p]

"Timothy Rose" <timrosedel...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:VQvya.67$Eg1...@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk...

Targus do a good line in decent replacement laptop adaptors, at half the
price too, usually.

http://www.targus.co.uk/accessories_power.asp

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`p

[Covey]

"Timothy Rose" <timrosedel...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
news:VQvya.67$Eg1...@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk...

We tend to use Dell Latitudes in schools. fairly reliable with a 3 year on
site (in theory!!) warranty and solidly built. Not cheap, but does the
business.

Covey

[deKay]

Soni tempori elseu romani yeof helsforo nisson ol sefini ill des Tue, 20 May
2003 20:57:06 +0100, sefini jorgo geanyet des mani yeof do
uk.education.schools-it, yawatina tan reek esk "Timothy Rose"
<timrosedel...@bigfoot.com> fornis do marikano es bono tan el:

Dell. Toshiba used to be good too, but they've gone downhill recently.

www.6thplanet.com do cheap Dell laptops. We've bought from them several
times.

[Tony Sheppard]

"Covey" <g...@cctsys.com> wrote in message news:3ecb41c0.0@entanet...

>
> "Timothy Rose" <timrosedel...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> news:VQvya.67$Eg1...@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk...

> > Just bust the ac input socket on my laptop and they want £115 for a new

> > part! Hard drive also noisy so had ordered a new one as well.
> >
> > Now considering a replacement. What laptop manufacturers does anyone
> > recommend (or not!)
>
> We tend to use Dell Latitudes in schools. fairly reliable with a 3 year on
> site (in theory!!) warranty and solidly built. Not cheap, but does the
> business.
>

Just got some of the new D-series from Dell. Very Nice ...

Then again ... the new Acer Travelmate 800 looked very nice when we had that
to play with for a few days. The only thing that makes us wary of Acer is
the poor support we have had in the past ... but everyone has there own
story about support from $COMPUTER_COMPANY :-)

The Boss had a look at the new Samsung laptops recently and was very
impressed ....

Tony Sheppard

[John Cartmell]

In article <bafieg$s9630$1...@ID-155810.news.dfncis.de>, Tony Sheppard
<grumb...@mac.com> wrote:

> "Covey" <g...@cctsys.com> wrote in message news:3ecb41c0.0@entanet...
> >
> > "Timothy Rose" <timrosedel...@bigfoot.com> wrote in message
> > news:VQvya.67$Eg1...@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk...

> > > Just bust the ac input socket on my laptop and they want Ł115 for a

> > > new part! Hard drive also noisy so had ordered a new one as well.
> > >
> > > Now considering a replacement. What laptop manufacturers does anyone
> > > recommend (or not!)
> >
> > We tend to use Dell Latitudes in schools. fairly reliable with a 3
> > year on site (in theory!!) warranty and solidly built. Not cheap, but
> > does the business.
> >
> Just got some of the new D-series from Dell. Very Nice ...

> Then again ... the new Acer Travelmate 800 looked very nice when we had
> that to play with for a few days. The only thing that makes us wary of
> Acer is the poor support we have had in the past ... but everyone has
> there own story about support from $COMPUTER_COMPANY :-)

> The Boss had a look at the new Samsung laptops recently and was very
> impressed ....

And I'll be reporting on the MicroDigital Alpha as soon as I get my hands
on one - it has the advantage of running two OSs:
Windows (spit!) and RISC OS 4.

--
John Cartmell jo...@cartmell.demon.co.uk FAX +44 (0)8700-519-527
Acorn Publisher magazine & FD Games www.acornpublisher.com

[Geoff Harvey]

we use Toshiba 17 Dell 10 and Sony 137

Win2k reloaded instead of XP, ME or 98

Bit of a pain getting drivers for win2k but Sony are by far the most
reliable we've come across

Mail Marcus for a price for a 902 or 905 but don't forget to add Vat

mar...@datapact.co.uk

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[Theo]

On 20/5/03 8:57 pm, in article VQvya.67$Eg1...@news-binary.blueyonder.co.uk,

"Timothy Rose" <timrosedel...@bigfoot.com> wrote:
> Now considering a replacement. What laptop manufacturers does anyone
> recommend (or not!)

Consider as an alternative either an iBook

http://www.apple.com/uk/ibook/

or

PowerBook G4

http://www.apple.com/uk/powerbook/index17.html

or lots
http://www.apple.com/uk/education/cart/

theo

[APH]

have a look at :

http://www.ictadvice.org.uk/performance/

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[Gareth Edmondson]

Dell. I wouldn't buy anything else, except maybe a Sony Vaio for posing.

Gareth Edmondson

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[SteveT]

I've just taken delivery of some fujitsu C1020s laptops, with integrated
wireless. For the money, I'm impressed.