[ubuntu-uk] a new laptop

[matt at mattjones.me.uk]

Quoting Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood.lug at gmail.com>:

> On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 4:45 PM, London School of Puppetry
> <lspinfo at gmail.com> 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.
>
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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