On 04/08/2011 08:08 AM, Robert Krawitz wrote: > On Fri, 08 Apr 2011 07:48:30 -0400, Jerry Feldman wrote: >> On 04/08/2011 12:19 AM, David Kramer wrote: >>> Adding my experience, a lot has to do with which Dell line you get. >>> Like many companies, there's a big difference between their >>> light-and-cheap line, their multimedia-gaming line, and their business >>> line. I always buy from the business line, and have been very happy >>> with the construction (and full linux compatibility). For instance, the >>> business line has a metal chassis instead of a plastic one, and are more >>> powerful. I have a Latitude D820 and my wife has a D830. >> I agree, except my experience is more with HP. My HP laptop has got to >> be 7 years old, and I only use it at the installfests to burn DVDs, but >> I used to bring it to work and BLU meetings. It is an early 64-bit AMD >> Turion processor. It was also certified for LInux by HP. At the >> installfests it seems we always had some issues with Dells, but the >> lower end laptops are very cost reduced for any brand. I'm not sure if >> this is still true, but you could get 2 identical Dell desktops, and >> look inside and they might have different chips and boards. Again, I'm >> not sure if this is still true. WRT Installfests, I still tend to favor >> Lenovo Thinkpads. But my Acer Aspire One netbook booted up with Ubuntu >> nearly perfectly the first time. After the initial installation, I had >> to install b43-fwcutter, but in Ubuntu, the installation of b43-fwcutter >> also gives you an option to download and install the firmware where >> other distributions do not. (Mint Linux, for instance I had to install >> b43-fwcutter from the Ubuntu repositories). In other distros you >> download the appropriate Windows Broadcom driver and use fwcutter to >> isolate and install the firmware. > I've always had excellent luck with Dells. I've had an Inspiron 8000, > 8200 (actually, a couple of them -- I always buy used and the first > one had some problems I could never fix), and my current 9400/E1705, > and I've never had problems running Linux on them. The only things I > don't like about the 9400 is that it has a limit of 3.3 GB of RAM and > will not enable AHCI on its SATA controller. Otherwise, it's great. > Finding a WUXGA screen (as opposed to 1920x1080) is getting a bit > difficult these days. > AFAIK, Dell is still the only major manufacturer who does offer linux preinstalled on consumer laptops and desktops. HP preinstalls enterprise linux on their servers.
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