[TriLUG] Laptops
Reginald Reed
reginald at cisco.com
Tue Apr 16 15:36:47 EDT 2002
Just to add another opinion, I've had very good luck both hardware wise
and with Linux on both of my Inspiron laptops (a 5000 and a 4100). I
just got the 4100 this past December and I haven't had any issues (other
than they accidently sent me a laptop without the 32M Geforce2Go). My
current setup is:
Inspiron 4100
1.2 GHz P///m
1 Gb of PC133 SDRAM
40 Gb disk
Built-in 3com 10/100
Cisco Aironet 350 miniPCI card (using internal antenna behind LCD)
14.1" TFT UXGA LCD (1600x1200)
32 Mb nVidia Geforce2Go!
Combo 8X CD-RW/DVD drive
All for ~$3k, RAM is from Crucial (less than $300 at the time).
--Reggie
> -----Original Message-----
> From: trilug-admin at trilug.org
> [mailto:trilug-admin at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Justin Johnson
> Sent: Monday, April 15, 2002 2:09 PM
> To: trilug at trilug.org
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Laptops
>
>
> > Gotta disagree.
> >
> > Been using Redhat on Lattitude LM, CP, and LS series
> laptops and while
> > it hasn't all been tea and honey, it's been an overall positive
> > experience. The only problem is suspend mode, which with
> some patient
> > tweaking you can get working.
> >
> > So, to sum... Dell not BAAAD, just not PERFFFECT.
> >
> > Also, Dell tech people don't even bat an eye when you call
> in and say
> > you've got linux on there...
>
> I'll have to chime in and say that I too have had a good
> experience with Dell !Latitude! laptops. I have heard of bad
> experiences from people with Inspiron laptops. This is both
> in the world of linux and Windows. Speaking for myself, I
> have a Latitude Cpi D300XT that was my first linux machine,
> which was first installed with RH6.2. It was until recently
> running RH7.2. Then like a bonehead I installed Mandrake 8.1
> to 'see what was the fuss'. Won't do that again. I digress,
> pardon me please.
>
> I'm typing this on a Latitude c810 that will be getting RH7.2
> installed at the next installfest, if not sooner. I did a
> quick search on Google that turned up a couple of people
> saying they where running RH7.2 on the C810 with no problems.
> Looks like there was an issue with the video driver at some
> point, but there is an updated driver on the NVidia site that
> is supposed to fix that.
>
> FWIW, I actually asked our Dell sales rep recently what the
> difference was between the Latitude and Inspiron lines. He
> said that the Latitude was more of a business class line, and
> that no parts went into those models Dell didn't consider
> stable for enterprise customers. Inspiron is more of a less
> expensive home user line I guess.
>
> Last note. Dell's support has always been damn good in my
> experiance. I'd say better than any other support staff that
> I've had to deal with.
>
> Now if they would just get rid of that annoying kid on TV in
> the elf suit.
> ;-)
>
> HTH,
> Justin
>
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