[lug] Best places to buy hardware for linux?

[Jeff Walker]

good lord.

I have a dell monitor (one of the trinitron ones) and it started having
problems with the color convergence.  I called support and the sent me a
refurb as a replacement.  It had a very bad problem with focus, worse than
the one I was replacing.  I called back and they sent me a brand-new one.
Very nice.

I have heard conflicting things about dell monitors.  I wonder if these
people that have had trouble got the trinitron (sony tube) or the cheaper
ones?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Chip Atkinson
> Sent: Friday, October 26, 2001 9:25 AM
> To: lug at lug.boulder.co.us
> Subject: Re: [lug] Best places to buy hardware for linux?
>
>
> 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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