[davidw]

In the spirit of... well... "thinking differently" we might call it, I'll actually say I'm pretty happy with the Dells I've had. They're solid workhorses with relatively good value for the money I spent on them. Certainly, they are not glamorous or beautiful, but they work well, have good support, and have generally run Ubuntu pretty well.

That said, if someone came along and really did good Linux support, I'd probably switch.

[jamesbritt]

I've been pretty happy with my Dell laptops, running Ubuntu.

But they lost me when they dropped WUXGA. That extra 200-pixel row may not matter to folks using their machine to watch movies, but it's missing developer real estate to me.

[corin_]

Ditto - and it's not just a developer thing, it's an "anything except video watching" thing.

I hate the shift towards widescreen in laptops for pretty much any activity, and it's only bearable in desktop monitors because there's no real size limit on them, so it can be adding width rather than just reducing height.

[davidw]

Ouch, they have? That does stink, I have one of those, and love it. Sigh...

[jamesbritt]

I think you have to go to 17" or something to get WUXGA from them.

It pains me that there's no good way to assemble or upgrade laptops to one's liking. It's pretty much take it or leave it.