London School of Puppetry wrote: > Hi there I am about to buy a new laptop- I was told that Dell do one with > Hardy Heron already installed. Is this ok, oe should I get one with nothing > then put HH onto it. I suppose this is just > -- -basic advice I need. Caroline
I bought Dell's entry-level laptop last year (then, the 6400N) with Feisty pre-installed. Worked flawlessly; and upgraded to Gutsy without a hitch. Dell are currently selling these: http://tinyurl.com/34fctn The laptops look as though they come with Gutsy. Should upgrade OK in the normal way. I've been very happy with my Dell laptop - solid, reliable, and the cheap one seems good value for money. I'd buy another if I needed a laptop. Only thing to mention is that Dell partitions the disk rather idiosyncratically. If you want a classic partitioning scheme - e.g. '/' + 'swap' + '/home' - you're going to have to reinstall Ubuntu on the Dell. And in that case, you might want to consider other options, where you'd have to install the OS yourself anyway. But, of course, you can be confident with the Dells that the hardware will work, even if you do reinstall. HTH Mac -- [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
