Samsung X20-XVM 1600-V

[Oliver Fromme]

Rainer Duffner <rainer at ultra-secure.de> wrote:
 > Oliver Fromme wrote:
 > > They give a 2-year pick-up warranty.  What more could I
 > > ask for?  
 > 
 > They don't say how long it takes to "pick" it up

Yes, they do:  Next workday.

 > and you don't know how long it takes until you get it back.

5 to 7 days, including pick-up and return.

 > While various trade-magazine horror-stories may not be representative, 
 > they are reason enough for me to stay away from consumer-level 
 > notebooks: simply too many customers and too little incentive for 
 > vendors to produce quality goods.

There are horror stories for every major vendor, consumer-
level or not.  I agree that they're not representative,
but I refuse to pay twice the price for the same hardware
(basically) just because the vendor is a "big" name and
doesn't call the thing "consumer-level".

Things might be different for companies.  One of our
customers decided to buy HP/Compaq notebooks for the
desktops, which are working pretty well, but were pretty
expensive given the technical data (they're not high-end
notebooks).  They also have a professional service
contract, which also costs money.

Personally, 500 Euros make a huge difference for me when
buying a notebokok for my private desk at home.  My options
are not to select between a cheap one or an expensive one
-- it's rather to select between a cheap one or keep using
my old one.

Mind you, 1199 Euros is _not_ really cheap in my opinion.
There are notebooks for as few as 699 Euros (sempron-based,
512 MB RAM, 40 GB HDD, CD-RW/DVD-ROM, 1024x768 SiS VGA).
_Those_ are cheap.

Best regards
   Oliver

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