Re: [Thinkpad] any reasons not to buy dell instead of ibm

In my experience, Sony seems to feel that a laptop is a consumer product, to
be disposed of when broken like a $50 Walkman.
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From: "Rosen, Robert (NIH/NIAMS)" <rosenr@mail.nih.gov>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 9:25 AM
Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] any reasons not to buy dell instead of ibm

> Well I'll (speaking for myself) "bad mouth" Sony laptops. My group had to
> support them (execs loved them) and they were garbage. Non standard parts
> (even the same models bought at the same time had different parts),
repairs
> cost almost as much as a new one, etc.
>
> Any machine can have problems. But on the whole, I vote for Thinkpads.
>
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> <Snip>
> Take
> another company which people defend for high quality laptops: Sony. Sony
> allegedly has a failure rate of less than 2% (Better than Lexus ;-) ).
Can
> you find people saying "I'll never buy a Sony product?" Sure.
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