Dell Inspiron 8600

[Stuart Bishop]

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Reid Gilman wrote:
| Hello everyone,
|     I'm thinking of buying a Dell Inspiron 8600 laptop.  Specs as follows:
|         Pentium M 2.0Ghz
|         512MB RAM
|         Centrino Wireless 2200 (b/g)
|         Geforce2go FX 5200 64MB
|         15.4" WUXGA (1920x1200)
|
| I've read and understand the wiki for this laptop and I understand how
| to set up the ndiswrapper and sound changes it describes.  My
| question(s) are: (1) Can anyone think of a good reason not to buy this
| laptop (e.g. would this machine not work well with Ubuntu Warty?) and
| (2) will that 1920x1200 resolution work, or should I drop it to
| 1680x1050?  Thanks in advance.

The 1920x1200 display works a treat - it is just a matter of setting the
screen resolution to 144dpi using the fonts system control panel. I have
a similar machine (I have the 128MB ATI Radeon 9600 graphics card), and
there is no need to do any special setup - it all just worked. There are
some problems in Warty, particularly that if you shut the lid the
machine locks. This is fixed in Hoary. Suspend to RAM is not yet
working. The volume and 'multimedia' keys can happily be mapped and work
fine.

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Stuart Bishop <stuart.bishop at canonical.com>   http://www.canonical.com/
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