On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 12:02 -0500, Lloyd Kvam wrote: > On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:53 -0500, Ben Scott wrote: > > The question is, did you avoid paying for it anyway? > > > Vista Home Premium appears to add $30 to the cost. > > The Vista laptop allows for some lower cost options that are not > available in the Ubuntu configurations. Once all the hardware got > equalized, the Vista quote was higher by $30. >
We finally got our laptop on the third try. 1. was the Dell Studio documented in this thread (lcd screen did not support Ubuntu's resolution choices) 2. was purchased at Staples, but, after installing Ubuntu, the screen driver was simply too slow to tolerate. We returned the laptop after running the Windows restore. 3. is a Dell Inspiron. While Dell sells these with Ubuntu, there was a discount code that saved ~$200 as compared to the Ubuntu version with equivalent hardware choices. I did grumble to Dell about being forced to buy Vista. Ubuntu 8.04 worked OK and the upgrade to 8.10 went smoothly. The GUI tools work well enough that my daughter appears to be self-sufficient with the sysadmin tasks. Bluetooth has not yet been tested. -- Lloyd Kvam Venix Corp. 1 Court Street, Suite 378 Lebanon, NH 03766-1358 voice: 603-653-8139 fax: 320-210-3409 _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/