[mdlug] HP vs Toshiba

[Peter Bart]

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:50:32 -0500
Garry Stahl <tesral at comcast.net> wrote:

> Peter Bart wrote:
> > Anybody have any thoughts on this? Any particular things I need
> > to steer clear of?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> >   
> 
> If it works, why fix it?

	Because it doesn't fit the way the user uses it. The volume
thumb wheel is constantly inadvertently getting bumped and the touchpad
has allways been very touchy for ex.

>  Unless the HP is a considerable horse power
> improvement, why?  Is the Toshiba working?

    Not the way I feel it should. Suspend/resume have never worked, and
Toshiba does not seem very Linux friendly for ex. 

>  Does it do the task?

 No
> 
> What are you getting for you money other than a change in brand?
> 

    A larger community of Linux users from which to draw on for those
unavoidable problem areas. The Toshiba Linux community is almost non
existant. What is there is almost exclusively in another language.

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