Quoting Neil Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:45 PM, London School of Puppetry > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >> > > Hi Caroline, > > I bought this Dell Inspiron 1525 (the basic model) about a month ago. > It came with Gutsy pre-installed. I agree with Mac's comments about > the partitioning: it came with 4 partitions > 1. a click-through license application that only appears the first > time you boot, > 2. a copy of the Dell-specific Ubuntu ISO image, for re-installing, > 3. the root partition, > 4. the swap partition. > > The only minor niggle I've noticed so far is that I can't enable > Compiz. I've only tried once though, and I didn't look for what the > error message was. Other than that, it's a very nice machine. > > Hwyl, > Neil. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >
Dell do a couple, the inspiron as mentioned above, and the XPSm1330. From spending about ten minutes playing with a 1525, they seem to be much better than the older inspirons, in terms of build quality. Some of the previous ones have been pretty skanky. The m1330 is a nice, compact notebook, which has got a lot of positive reviews. It depends on what you are looking for in a notebook, I think that a 13 inch is about as large as is conveniently portable, although still much less than something such as the EEE or the tiny sony things. Mj -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
