Anyone tried Dell Mini

[Jim]

Jonathan Jesse wrote:
>
>
> 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
On the Dell site, what I had seen was a 4gb with Ubuntu on it and 16gb 
for Windows and the Windows was $50.00 more.