On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 17:34 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote:
On 2009-01-22 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Subsequently once you have Ubuntu (or other Linux) installed, you could
install the proprietary Nvidia or FGLRX drivers so that you can get a
good resolution.
Excellent point. Somebody
On 01/21/2009 03:33 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
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
On 2009-01-21 3:33 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
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.
I've seen the Dell sign in the window at Staples, but didn't
On 01/22/2009 12:55 PM, Bill McGonigle wrote:
On 2009-01-21 3:33 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
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.
I've
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
Subsequently once you have Ubuntu (or other Linux) installed, you
could install the proprietary Nvidia or FGLRX drivers so that you can get a
good resolution.
Can the proprietary driver packages be copied to a separate USB
On 01/22/2009 03:02 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
Subsequently once you have Ubuntu (or other Linux) installed, you
could install the proprietary Nvidia or FGLRX drivers so that you can get a
good resolution.
Can the
On 01/22/2009 03:02 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
Subsequently once you have Ubuntu (or other Linux) installed, you
could install the proprietary Nvidia or FGLRX drivers so that you can get a
good resolution.
Can the
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 12:55 -0500, Bill McGonigle wrote:
On 2009-01-21 3:33 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
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.
On 01/22/2009 03:58 PM, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
Yes they do have units you can try. Most systems work OK with Linux and
when Steph and I were shopping around, the main issue was the laptops
with numeric keypads - the keypads did not work in our quick fiddling.
I assume that could be remedied with a
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
On 01/22/2009 03:02 PM, Ben Scott wrote:
Can the proprietary driver packages be copied to a separate USB
flash drive, and then installed into the in-RAM live system?
The simple answer is yes. What you would need to do is
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:27 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
If you buy a Dell, I *strongly* recommend the Gold Tech Support
package ...
If you buy Gold Tech Support, what do you get if you buy a laptop with
Windows installed and install another OS,, like Fedora or Ubuntu.
I've
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:58 PM, Lloyd Kvam pyt...@venix.com wrote:
The HP laptop that was too slow did OK in casual store browsing.
However, once Steph started trying to do some real work on the laptop,
the screen scrolling was just too slow.
That's almost certainly due to video drivers.
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
Can the proprietary driver packages be copied to a separate USB
flash drive, and then installed into the in-RAM live system?
The simple answer is yes. What you would need to do is to is to open up the
iso, copy in the
On 2009-01-22 2:24 PM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
Subsequently once you have Ubuntu (or other Linux) installed, you could
install the proprietary Nvidia or FGLRX drivers so that you can get a
good resolution.
Excellent point. Somebody could do custom spin in Fedora-land with
revisor, or... heck, I
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 17:20 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Jerry Feldman g...@blu.org wrote:
Can the proprietary driver packages be copied to a separate USB
flash drive, and then installed into the in-RAM live system?
The simple answer is yes. What you would
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
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 08:35 -0500, Lloyd Kvam wrote:
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 17:02 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
Don't suppose you would be willing to see how a fedora 10 live cd
behaves before you do?...
There was no opportunity to try Fedora 10. I suppose there is a pretty
good chance
On Tue, 2008-12-02 at 14:48 -0500, Jarod Wilson wrote:
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I didn't mean it like dude, you should use
Fedora,
I was the one who was not clear. I understood that it was simply a
debugging suggestion.
I meant would you be willing to see if this bug can be
reproduced with
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 20:24 -0500, Nikkiana H. wrote:
I bought both the Studio 15 and the Mini recently and am pretty happy
with them.
Well the Dell Studio 15 arrived yesterday. When I tried to boot it, the
splash screens and text boot messages worked fine. However, when it
came time to draw
On Nov 26, 2008, at 4:30 PM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 20:24 -0500, Nikkiana H. wrote:
I bought both the Studio 15 and the Mini recently and am pretty happy
with them.
Well the Dell Studio 15 arrived yesterday. When I tried to boot it,
the
splash screens
About 2 mo ago I needed to upgrade my wife's laptop computer. I saw an
Acer for just under $400 at Best Buy that looked interesting. I'm not
an Acer fan, but at that price for a 15.5 LCD laptop with an Intel dual
core 2GHz T3200, 2GB DDR2, 160GB HD, DVD DL burner and wlan I thought it
was worth
michael miller wrote:
About 2 mo ago I needed to upgrade my wife's laptop computer. I saw an
Acer for just under $400 at Best Buy that looked interesting. I'm not
an Acer fan, but at that price for a 15.5 LCD laptop with an Intel dual
core 2GHz T3200, 2GB DDR2, 160GB HD, DVD DL burner and
Jerry Feldman wrote:
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Greg Rundlett wrote:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
On 11/14/2008 11:03 PM, Greg Rundlett wrote:
I've noticed many vendors offering a Windows XP downgrade for an
additional fee. I just ordered a Lenovo notebook, and they do that.
I don't know what to say about paying not to get something other than
it sounds like a mafia racket. /me shakes
I guess I'll throw my two cents in...
While a non-standard unit (no OS, etc) is out of process, I would
imagine that Microsoft's OEM licensing Agreement forces the OEM to sell
a percentage of units with the latest Microsoft bloatware, and I'd
imagine that percentage or term to be somewhere around
I guess I'll throw my two cents in...
while we're throwing pennies around, I think a lot of time when you
buy a computer with Windows, you're actually getting the Windows OS
and a bunch of other software that you'd rather not have (crapware).
These are programs that have some means of generating
While I don't know what the contract terms are, a while back Dell was
prevented from selling consumer PCs with other than Windows. I also
believe that applied to Compaq. Before the merger, both Compaq and HP
had a contract that allowed them to sell business systems with Linux
because both were
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On 11/15/2008 12:47 PM, Peter Dobratz wrote:
while we're throwing pennies around, I think a lot of time when you
buy a computer with Windows, you're actually getting the Windows OS
and a bunch of other software that you'd rather not have (crapware).
These are programs that have some means of
Lloyd Kvam wrote:
My daughter's laptop has a failing disk drive. I've backed up her data.
The laptop is old enough that we want to replace it. I'm looking for
suggestions as to where I can get a reasonable laptop with Ubuntu or
simply bare. I can handle the Ubuntu installation.
I have
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 20:24 -0500, Nikkiana H. wrote:
Actually, Dell does sell them on the web, you just have to go to the
right second on the website to find it. (In the Laptops Mini
dropdown nav, it's under Open Source PCs). If you try to go through
the selector thing on the main page, the
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 08:04 -0500, Ted Roche wrote:
Lloyd Kvam wrote:
My daughter's laptop has a failing disk drive. I've backed up her data.
The laptop is old enough that we want to replace it. I'm looking for
suggestions as to where I can get a reasonable laptop with Ubuntu or
simply
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At least we managed to avoid buying an unwanted Windows license.
The question is, did you avoid paying for it anyway?
I've noticed in the past that many PCs being sold without a Windows
license cost the same as the ones
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Subject: Re: buying a laptop either bare or with Ubuntu
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At least we managed to avoid buying
On Fri, 2008-11-14 at 10:53 -0500, Ben Scott wrote:
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At least we managed to avoid buying an unwanted Windows license.
The question is, did you avoid paying for it anyway?
I've noticed in the past that many PCs being
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
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Lloyd Kvam [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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.
I've noticed many vendors offering a Windows XP downgrade for an
Actually, Dell does sell them on the web, you just have to go to the right
second on the website to find it. (In the Laptops Mini dropdown nav, it's
under Open Source PCs). If you try to go through the selector thing on the
main page, the only thing that shows up with Ubuntu is the Mini.
But to
Walmart still sells laptops with Linux preloaded on-line:
http://www.walmart.com/browse/Computers/Laptop-Computers/All-Laptop-Computers/_/N-3xtzZaq9c?catNavId=69ic=48_0path=0%3A3944%3A3951%3A4070ref=125875.183815+50.500592
mark
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My daughter's laptop has a failing disk drive. I've backed up her data.
The laptop is old enough that we want to replace it. I'm looking for
suggestions as to where I can get a reasonable laptop with Ubuntu or
simply bare. I can handle the Ubuntu installation.
Dell no longer offers Ubuntu
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