Valeri Galtsev wrote:
On Thu, November 2, 2017 8:29 am, Sorin Srbu wrote:
Hello all,
I'm looking into getting HP laptops for our department running CentOS 7.
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To be fair I must mention here that I love HP printers, and the whole attitude of HP towards printers they make. Decent HP laser printers are manageable, last forever, and HP keeps making supplies for them. I just retired still working B/W LaserJet 4050, that worked for over 16 years, was heavily used, still works, print quality is the same as it always had, and HP still makes supplies for it.
We buy compatible toner for our HP printers - it's less than half the OEM price, and works just fine. The vendor I like dealing with is tonerprice.com. We got a pallet of toner a few years ago; six or so months later, I needed toner for my cute l'il Laserjet at home... and got the *same* service, in terms of price and response time.
I usually recommend Dell: business lines of laptops, see which are offered with 3 to 5 years warranty, I do get cheapest 3 year warranty, but Dell committing to maintain it for 5 years tell you that that is solidly built, and is not expected to be obsoleted soon.
<snip> Seconded. Hell, I tell everyone, including my kids, DO NOT BUY consumer-grade laptops, only business-grade. Even buying one used online, they'll last longer than any crap consumer grade.
We have a lot of Dell Latitudes here at work.
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