[lug] Best places to buy hardware for linux?

[Dhruva B. Reddy]

I bought a refurbished Dell 17" monitor from ubid.com about a year and a half
ago.  I haven't had any trouble with it.  The only thing is that it did not
have a flat screen as ubid claimed.  It was a good deal and it seemed like more 
trouble than it was worth to do anything about it, so I kept it.

On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 09:24:35AM -0600, quoth Chip Atkinson:
> I'd have to say that my experiences with Dell's monitors weren't that 
> great either.  While they cheerfully replaced the first one, the second 
> one died in a similar manner after the warranty expired.  It had a nice 
> picture quality but the way it acted, I was kind of scared that it would 
> catch the house on fire sometimes.  You could hear loud snapping sparks 
> from a capacitor being discharged and see that blueish arc light coming 
> from the ventilation slots.  (I have played with HV quite a bit so I 
> know what I heard and saw).
> 
> Chip
> 
> rotering at animalcules.com wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 08:44:59AM -0600, Rob Nagler wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I also have had good luck from Dell's refurb store.  The PCs
> >>you get are really "just like new", usually with new mice and
> >>kbds.  I haven't bought monitors from them.
> >
> >
> >I have never purchased anything from Dell's refurb store, but I have
> >gotten the monitor on one of my home systems replaced under warranty
> >several times.  Each refurb monitor they sent (3 in all) was broken in
> >some way.
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