Laptop for Ubuntu

[David Whyte]

On 8/22/07, Christopher Davis <cnd551 at uow.edu.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>  I'm contemplating purchasing a new laptop and plan on using it with Ubuntu
> as it's been a favoutite for the past 12 months and I don't want to change
> back to M$. I was wondering if anyone has had any success in running ubuntu
> on a laptop and getting most of the hardware working pretty easily. Also is
> anyone aware of any stores that are willing to sell laptops without V!$TA?
>

My Toshiba laptop works OK for Ubuntu Fiesty, but the really important
things like screen dimming on battery and the Fn + blah keys don't
work and it is a fundamental floor with a lot of Toshiba laptops and
the BIOS that they support (from what I could tell).

I too am looking at a new laptop and like the look of the Dell XPS
1330m.  According to a page I have been following on the wiki
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/InstallingUbuntuOnADellXPSM1330) it seems
like it will be well supported once gutsy comes out.

HTH's,
Whytey