Inspiron 1525

[norman]

>         I intend to buy a Dell Inspiron 1525 and to run it as a dual
>         boot with
>         Win XP and Ubuntu 8.04. Could some kind person please confirm
>         that this
>         machine will run with Ubuntu 8.04 as well as it does with
>         7.10?
> 
> Works even better, as the webcam and integrated microphone now also
> work. Also had no problems with the new wireless driver iwlwifi for
> the intel wireless card. Video driver also supports compositing now
> (Intel, nvidia should have worked anyway). Can't say anything about
> Bluetooth, but looks fine.
> 
> I also haven't tested the microphone connector in front of the laptop.
> That one doesn't work on 7.10, but I haven't checked with hardy.
> 
> Oh, I run the 64bit version of Ubuntu 8.04 (upgraded from 7.10).
> 
> Supend and hibernation generally work, but I've had 2 occasions were
> suspend gave problems (I've used it daily since release).
> 
> One word of caution, I'm not sure whether you will get a Dell
> mediaDirect option on your laptop, but for me that caused me
> headaches. Repartitioning changed my mediaDirect-button (on the laptop
> itself) in a 'remove the partition table' button. Very, very, very
> annoying. If there is such a partition on your 1525, be sure to test
> it after repartitioning. Took me hours to get it working. This was a
> known bug, so I assume they have fixed it by now...

Thanks very much, it certainly seems it will meet my needs.

Norman