On Sat, 26 Jun 2004, James Gray wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 08:28 am, Ben Donohue wrote: > > Hi Slugs, > > > > I'm just about to purchase a Dell Inspiron notebook. (Taxtime) > > It comes with XP but Linux will definitely be loaded on as well.
I have a Dell Inspiron 8500, and run FC2. You might be buying a newer 8600, which is the same thing. Linux on the Inspiron 8500 --------------------------- The Broadcom network card works out of the box The WXGA widescreen works fine The multimedia keys work find in Gnome 2.6 TheDVD burner works ok I use NVIDIAs drivers to get good performance from the GeForce. UT2K4 works great. Dell Truemobile 1400 wireless a/b/g card works fine using Windows driver and ndiswrapper, which is easy to install and get working. The inbuilt bluetooth does not work. Buy a USB bluetooth adapter. Would I Buy a Dell Again ------------------------ No. Apple sell a laptop with a comparable screen that's 2 kilos as opposed to the Dell's 3 kilos. Dell support is shithouse. They're polite and completely unhelpful. Spare parts take 2 1/2 months to arrive, they can't proactively give you a tracking number to watch your order. Then they loose your payment and biull you twice. And they don't respond to email. Sure they'll apologize, but they won't fix the problem. Mike -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
