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Name: Cyrus-the-virus
Date: July 5, 2002 at 12:04:21 Pacific
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Hi! Guys,

I am looking forward to buy a laptop.
We r running Novell 3.12 on network but in few months we are gonna get a new server with WIN 2000 server on it and get rid of Novell 3.12

We use a DOS based databse application(Macola), another windows application(Telemagic if anyone is aware of it) of the network and few word, excel files.

Please suggest the best configuration for a laptop to cover the above requirements.
Or can suggest any vendor with model number and stuff.

With so many products, vendors, models in market its difficult to choose from. Any experienced guys please suggest me.

Thanx a lot in advance.

Cyrus.



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Response Number 1
Name: Cyrus-the-virus
Date: July 5, 2002 at 12:05:30 Pacific
Reply:

Oh! i forgot to ask should i get win 2000 pro or XP pro.?


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Response Number 2
Name: Rick
Date: July 5, 2002 at 12:36:33 Pacific
Reply:

Win2K pro, forget that cheezy xp, it's mostly a worked over clone of win2k anyway.


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Response Number 3
Name: Brian
Date: July 5, 2002 at 12:51:41 Pacific
Reply:

I would go with an IBM Thinkpad T23 equipped with Windows 2000. The Thinkpad series is very stable and will rarely crap out on you.

BC


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Response Number 4
Name: Cyrus-the-virus
Date: July 5, 2002 at 12:59:28 Pacific
Reply:

Any HP models you would suggest?

My boss is very picky about HP.

Thanx.
Cyrus


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Response Number 5
Name: techsupport
Date: July 5, 2002 at 13:18:00 Pacific
Reply:

Go with IBM THINK PAD. lotttttttttttt better.


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Response Number 6
Name: Cyrus-the-virus
Date: July 5, 2002 at 13:22:43 Pacific
Reply:

Oh! My god thanx.

But what about HP?


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Response Number 7
Name: Rick
Date: July 5, 2002 at 13:39:37 Pacific
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HP laptops SUCK, is that plain nuff? Besides they just got bought out by compaq, (whose laptops also suck), or was that the other way round?


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Response Number 8
Name: Cyrus-the-virus
Date: July 5, 2002 at 13:46:27 Pacific
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I got it. Hey I know HP sucks but all i was looking is for a wriiten info. from good tech guys whioch i can show to my boss to make him believe that HP really sucks


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Response Number 9
Name: Mark
Date: July 5, 2002 at 16:24:58 Pacific
Reply:

DOS based apps, database or otherwise, will
not run correctly on the NT based
OS's(NT,2K,XP). Be sure to take that into
consideration before deciding on an OS.


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Response Number 10
Name: Cyrus-the-virus
Date: July 5, 2002 at 19:41:46 Pacific
Reply:

so what do u recommend Mark?


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Response Number 11
Name: Steve
Date: July 6, 2002 at 14:50:23 Pacific
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My 2 cents worth...

DOS apps MIGHT be a problem on W2K...we have several DOS apps that run ok on W2K, but it might be a problem for your specific situation...

Take a laptop, any laptop, install W2K and see how it works with your DOS apps, then decide...

If you have problems, then I would use W98SE...DO NOT TRY XP...just too many problems in general without trying to run DOS on it...

As far as laptops go, we like IBM, then Toshiba...

I don;t think Compaqs are very well made, kinda cheesy...haven't worked with HP laptops enough to have any comments...

Now I have worked on a number of Gatway laptops...lot's of people say they are real cheaply made and lots of problems...I have not found that to be necessairly true...but what I do like about the Gateways, is their "restore CD"...it's great to work with, easy to use when you do need to restore a Gateway laptop...

good luck
Steve


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Response Number 12
Name: boojum
Date: July 7, 2002 at 03:12:48 Pacific
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I don't agree that XP has more problems than 2000. I've had many more problems with 2000 mainly because of its piss-poor recovery options (no scanreg, no msconfig, no DOS, no system recovery, in short the only things that were good about 9x and ME they took out of 2000). XP is full of baggage but it's much easier to recover from problems with it thanks to the recovery feature.


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