Mallikarjun
On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:05 PM, Biswajit Dutta Baruah < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Friends, > > Hope this is not too late to chip in. > > I have an Inspiron 1420 that i bought in Dec 2007. Have been running > ubuntu on the same. Had a few issues with sound and video in gutsy but > hardy is fine ...no issues at all. Not crashed even once and am using it > full time. Have vista on a partition but haven't been there for a long > time now. > > I've installed ubuntu on XPS as well for a few friends and it has worked > well. > > Dell India is not selling any laptops with ubuntu pre loaded. Don't even > ask the guys, they don't have any clue about what ubuntu is. I tried > hard for them to sell me one without vista so that I don't have to pay > for the vista. But they refused, however i got a 5000 discount after > some hard bargaining. > Yeah tats true i asked one of the manager in dell whether i can get dell with ubuntu, he cud not even pronounce that word properly. > > At that time Dell was selling laptops online only but now they are in > the shops. And introductory offers are usually with a discount, so go > for it. If you buy online, they will come from Sriperumbudur(near > chennai) and not Malaysia, like mine did. > > If you are getting one from the US be sure to buy a global warranty so > that in case of needing service you can have it done locally and not > send it back to the US. I can have mine serviced in the Asia_pacific > region and not elsewhere, but that suit me well and I'm happy. > > orthodoc. > > <https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in> Thanks for the info. mallikarjun
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