[Thinkpad] OT: Anyone have experience with Dell M65?

[Pretty Good Computer Services]

Sorry, Rob, but they are very dissimilar.  Built four years apart, in
different countries.

They are built under similar concepts... such as consistency in design for
corporate use. The M65 is a specialty computer... and a very good one.  Just
as the D600 was back in 2002.  But there are few, if any components that are
common to both.

They are as far apart as an X and T and R and A are in Thinkpads.

Dell sells a lot of terrific laptops and a lot of bad ones.  The M65 is a
good one, but other than connecting them by cable for some uses, I think you
will  be disappointed.  It is built more like a Dell Latitude than a Dell
Inspiron.  The M65 is rugged enough to last a long time, and you will enjoy
using it.

Dell only sells laptops. It does not often build them.  Dell laptops come
from 7 different manufacturing companies in at least five different
countries.


I have been repairing Dell Inspiron, Latitude, and specialty series laptops
for over 15 years.  Some are as good as Thinkpads. Some are as bad as it is
possible to build a laptop.  But I do not agree with the opinions expressed
by some here.  If you avoid the laptops in the lower third of the Dell price
range, and the super fancy thin ones, you usually get a decent laptop...
unlike Sony VAIO (which more consistently fail, and have poor parts
availability), Alienware, WinBook, Acer and so on.  No "series" of laptops
from any other manufactures are built as well, have parts available as long,
or last as long as Thinkpads... though IBM, too, as sold some lousy ones.