Anyone tried Dell Mini

[Eberhard Roloff]

Jonathan Jesse schrieb:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net 
> <mailto:mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net>> wrote:
> 
>     Art Alexion wrote:
>      > On Monday 08 September 2008 3:34:02 pm Jonathan Jesse wrote:
>      >
>      >> Thanks perry need a laugh today thanks again
>      >>
>      >
>      > Here's a laugh.  The laptops come in 3 SSD sizes.  The largest
>     size is only
>      > available for Windows.  We buy a lot from Dell, and have our own
>     account rep
>      > and configurations.  We asked Dell if we could get Ubuntu on the
>     largest
>      > drive.
>      >
>      > The initial answer was something like "Yes you are correct, there
>     are only 3
>      > drive sizes."
>      >
>      > When we rephrased the request (in homage to the movie
>     "Philadelphia", so a 4
>      > year old could understand it) we were told that, "no, you can
>     only get the
>      > larger drive with XP preinstalled."
>      >
>      > So, although we are a Dell shop, we are going to give it one last
>     shot at
>      > getting a bare drive with access to any proprietary drivers for
>     the Ubuntu
>      > install, and then install Ubuntu ourselves.  If that fails, we
>     are going to
>      > buy eeePCs instead.
>      >
>     This is example of what I was saying earlier about the larger hard drive
>     for Windows .
>     I don't know what Dell has in mind about this , but is it the reason I
>     won't buy a Dell Inspiron 9.
>     If you get the eeePc, as far as the wireless card and webcam, you want
>     to use the kernel-2.6.27-0.312 in Fedora 10.
>     I'm using that kernel in FC9, on a eeePC 702
> 
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> 
> That is interesting, I guess I don't understand the whole the largest 
> drive you can get is for the Windows XP one?  The Dell Mini w/ Ubuntu on 
> it has a 16GB SSD drive and from the Dell site I can the largest I caan 
> get is 16 Gig for Windows?  Please explain what I'm missing
>  
> Jonathan
> 
Same with me. I just configured an Ubuntu based Mini-9 with 16GB SSD 
and bluetooth and 1GB of RAM.
The prize tag gets a bit steep (at least for me) at $622 but I could 
easily add it to my shopping cart.

Actually I did not buy since I prefer for myself a very good display 
and a very good keyboard, but I honestly do not need Atom Power on a 
netbook. So my choice would be the HP 2133, if I were unhappy with my 
small (but admitteldly not tiny) 10year old Thinkpad T21. ;-))

Kind regards
Eberhard