I hyave confirmed from Dell India that these two models are available with Ubuntu.
Vostro A840 NB details: http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-vostro-a840?c=in&cs=inbsd1&l=en&s=bsd&~ck=anavml Vostro A860 NB details: http://www1.ap.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/laptop-vostro-a860?c=in&cs=inbsd1&l=en&s=bsd&~ck=anavml Ask the Dell sales rep when you call the toll free number. Do let me know if you face any difficulties. Biswajit Dutta Baruah 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. > > 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. > > > -- Partner Manager - Central Asia Mobile: +91 98202 82922 www.ubuntu.com - Linux for Human Beings -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
