Dell Laptops

[Fred A. Miller]

On 04/26/2010 02:09 AM, Francesco Bolzoni wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 16:38 -0700, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
>    
>> >  Hi,
>> >  
>> >  what are the supported laptops of Dell running ubuntu ?
>> >  
>>      
> Hi.
> I'm writing on a DELL Studio 1749.
> Except minor trouble, all run fine here.
> The trouble are: wifi cart (dell mini with broadcom chipset, need some
> work) and, if u keep dual boot, DATASAFE software (under windows).
> DataSafe soft, has the strange idea to rewrite constantly the mbr, so
> mess up grub. Just delete it from windows and all works fine.
>    

I've not had any problem with any Dells as long as you get one with
Intel or nVidia video, and a REAL Intel wifi - NOT the Dell wifi with
Intel chipset. Everything else just works. Broadcom is junk and I
avoid them like the plague!

Fred

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