Choosing a laptop 502

On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 20:07:48 -0700, Notan

Here's something very important - while laptops are great, I hope the OP is aware that all vendors allow for a certain number of DEAD PIXELS as being fully acceptable on every laptop they sell. Some vendors allow for up to 15 dead-malfunctioning pixels before they consider the laptop to be returnable.

I would never buy a laptop unless I could try it, power it up and check the screen.

Many of our customers have purchased Dell laptops and have been very happy, even with a couple dead pixels, but when I purchased for myself I selected a local chain store (Circuit City) because they have a 14 day unconditional return policy. I went through three Toshiba Wide Screen 17" P4-3.2ghz systems before I found one without ANY bad pixels.

This is just something that most laptop purchasers are unaware of.

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