[ubuntu-uk] Dell UK now offers netbooks and laptops ...

[Bruno Girin]

On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:58 +0100, Matthew Bassett wrote:
> On 16 June 2010 09:47, Bruno Girin <brunogirin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > [...] the  only ones I manage to configure with Ubuntu are the Latitude
> >  2100 and  2110 but they only come with 9.10, not 10.04. [...]
> >
> > That doesn't sound very committed to Ubuntu to me.
> >
> > Shame because I would be on the market for a top of the range Vostro
> > 3300 if the specs that say it comes with Ubuntu were actually true. It's
> > doubly frustrating because Dell seem to be one of the few vendors who
> > have a 13" laptop with decent specs (the other one I know of being Sony
> > but I have no hope in hell of running Ubuntu on a Sony, let alone
> > getting it Windows free).
> 
> Try the Latitiude V13; I searched for Ubuntu, starting at the
> http://www.dell.co.uk page, and this was one of the hits. If you ask
> to personalise the cheapest version, it is offered with Ubuntu 09.10
> (I seem to remember). Not as cheap as a mini, but it looks pretty
> slick...

Well that's my issue really: I am not on the market for a cheap laptop,
I am actually looking for a business laptop with serious oomph and am
ready to pay the price for it. But I don't want Windows on it.

No wonder they say that their Ubuntu offering is not finding many takers
if they only offer it on the low spec machines.

> 
> The wierd thing is depending on which web page you start at (for
> instance starting with http://www.dell.co.uk/ubuntu) seems to get you
> different search results (searching from the aforementioned
> http://www.dell.co.uk/ubuntu did not lead me to any ubuntu machines at
> all).
> 
> It appears that Dell UK are actually aiming their Ubuntu offerings at
> businesses rather than individuals.

I'm fine with this as I need it for business. But even then, it looks
like the options you have are very limited and definitely not consistent
with what their specs say.

Bruno