Glad to hear it! I just ordered one and hope I am equally happy. As to
an inspiron 7000 page Steve Hsieh (long time Linux user) has put one
together. It is not linked from his main page but you can get to it at
http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~steveh/inspiron/
Out of curiosity which distribution are you using?
> Hey everyone,
>
> I've had my 7000 D300GT for a couple of weeks now, and I stumbled across
> this
> list today. I've seen a number of negative experiences and thoughts in
> the mail
> archive, so I thought I should share my good experience :-)
>
> I'm running the 300GT with 192M Bytes RAM, 6.4G Byte disk drive, DVD-ROM
> and two
> 3Com 10/100 cards (and a 56k modem, which usually gets left out).
>
> So far, I've had a terrific experience with both customer service and
> the
> hardware itself. The salesperson that I spoke with before purchasing my
> new
> laptop seemed pretty knowledgeable, and to my surprise had my system
> configured
> with the PCMCIA modem -- I was expecting an internal model. When I
> called, he
> said that he thought the internal modem would probably cause me some
> headaches
> so he just went with the safe(r) alternative.
>
> I've been an Accelerated-X user for several years; Whoever says they're
> a green,
> clueless company is mistaken -- apparantly you haven't talked to any of
> their
> developers, and don't know what goes into an X server! :-) So far all my
> experiences
> with them have been good. Linux and Accelerated-X installed without a
> hitch, and
> the combination hanldes my on-the-road and on-the-desk configurations
> (with a big
> display, keyboard & mouse) with ease. The display is great, it usually
> lures me
> away from the big screen on my desk :-)
>
>
> So far my only real gripes are the lack of sound drivers (although this
> looks like
> a pretty decent chipset, so I'm sure we'll be seeing drives sometime
> soon) and the
> rather slow ethernet performance. I've seen a number of web pages with
> scads of
> Inspiron 3000/3200 suggestions, has anybody put together something
> similar for the
> 7000? If not, I'll compile what I've gathered and start one.
>
> - James
>
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