My computer has a dead motherboard and memory and I am contemplating replacing rather than repairing. Any advice from all geeks on ToothyWiki about obtaining anything cheap without it being nasty? (Am also thinking in laptop terms, since they have no components kept at ground level within reach of little fingers - Hannah thought the button with the light on it i.e. power button was great on the old puter and got very grumpy when continually removed from the vicinity)
Recently acquired an Acer, which was cheap and appears to work well. It does somewhat annoyingly have a hotkey that you can't reprogram - but that appears to be its only fault so far. The dell business range is also quite good (as well as being just about the only non-vista laptop still available) --Vitenka
Recently acquired a Dell desktop (Inspiron), with a semi-decent gamer spec for about £450 - but they were offering free shipping, so I don't know how much that adds normally. No problems with it so far, nor any with Vista, really. --CH
I have a cheap Novatech which I got in December. It's a bit early still to really tell whether it's "nasty", but the only problem I've had (other than Debian stable not having the video driver) is the DVD drive being a bit sticky. OTOH laptop DVD drives tend to be rubbish until you get to the high-end ones with a slot. --PT
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