On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 12:16:12AM +0000, Wayne Stallwood wrote:
What are Sony's like on Linux these days ?, I had a Vaio at my old job that ran Mandrake 7 point something like a dream, had a 2nd battery in place of the CDRom and I could run 7-8 hours.
My only complaint with Sony is spares availability can be a bit flaky out of warranty. And the early Vaio's used to litterally fall apart.
I have heard really bad things about Sony support, in that you have to post the laptops to Belgium! for warranty support and it can be up to 6 weeks to get your laptop back. What I am upgrading from is a vaio picturebook and that has been reliable enough apart from the hard disk dying about 20 minutes out of warranty and the battery dying about 18 months out of warranty.
Looks like I am still looking at Dell, unless I can figure a way to get wireless in an iBook working :-/
Adam