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

carmen wrote:
> On Sat Mar 10, 2007 at 06:50:47PM -1000, david wrote:
>> Frank wrote:
>>> david wrote:
>>>> carmen wrote:
>>>>> On Fri Mar 09, 2007 at 07:43:00PM -1000, david wrote:
>>>>>> ljc@email-addr-hidden 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.
>
> both thinkpads i had fell apart after a year of use. the a21m was particularly bad, with the network card, usb ports, power plug, cd drive, and eventually screen backlight failing.

Verses the hundreds that my former corporate employer had ...

Anyway, we have a neighbor who swears by Jeep SUVs. Everyone else I've
known who owned one swore AT it. ;-)

Of course, Jeeps aren't very good audio equipment, unless you have some
some very specific digital samples you want to get.

-- 
David
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