[geeks] Big-screen PC Laptop suggestions?

[Hicheal Morton]

The HP business laptop still sell with XP.
I bought mine off eBay--NIB with warranty intact (HP warranties machines &
not owners.)
HP has a refurb/clearance store on their website
I think used Dells are easy to transfer to new owner and extended contracts
can be purchased during the inital warranty.
Dell has a reburb/scratch&dent/returned-new store on their website.
Don't buy from Dell Financial Services--they sell the off-lease laptops and
DON'T clean them AT ALL!  (Though are easy to deal with.)

A lot of the current business models have XP drivers available since they
overlap the XP->Vista transition.  The same is not true for the HP consumer
models.



On 6/29/07, Sheldon T. Hall <shel at tandem.artell.net> wrote:
>
> Writes Hicheal Morton, inter alia...
>
> > One question: Why don't you consider purchasing one in Europe?  (Just
> > curious.)
>
> Several reasons:
>
> I'm hoping for a recent, gently-used machine rather than a new one, to
> save
> a little money.
>
> Sales taxes in France are about 20%, and US$->Euro conversion rates suck,
> so
> I'd expect computers over there to be much more expensive for us than they
> are here.
>
> She wants a US keyboard, and I'd expect the laptops in France would mostly
> have French keyboards. We'll take a Quebecois one to plug in if she has to
> do any great amount of writing in French.  A real French keyboard ia
> AZERTY
> rather than QWERTY; the Quebecois one is QWERTY, but has all the French
> accented characters, French quotation marks, etc.
>
> New machines come with Vista, and we'd rather have XP.
>
> I'd like to be able to set it up here, where I have all the "stuff."
>
> -Shel
>
> PS:  If you ever have to do a lot of Western European language work, look
> into getting a Swiss keyboard.  It's got all the special stuff for German,
> French and Italian, albeit at the cost of "double bucky" shift sequences
> for
> some of the less common characters.
>
> PPS:  I'm assuming that the Quebecois keyboard is still supported, since
> XP
> lists three "Canadian" keyboards, two of which are specifically Canadian
> French.
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