I’ve just gotten over the phone with Dell Sales. I’ve almost ordered my new system, which is a Dell Vostro 3400 Laptop. Here is the package:
- Intel® CoreTM i5-560M Processor (2.66GHz,Turbo Boost 3.2Ghz, Dual Core, 4T, 3MB L3)
- No pre-loaded OS. Free Dos for the time being. No Microsoft Office etc. either (I’ll set up F14 on it as soon as I get it! The quote says they’re sending me UBUNTU media )
- 14.0” High Definition (1366 x 768) Wide LED Anti-Glare Display
- 4GB (2X2G) DDR3-1066MHz SDRAM, 2 DIMM
- 500GB Hard Drive, 7200 RPM
- 8X DVD+/-RW Drive-Aberdeen Silver
- NVIDIA® Geforce(TM) 310M, 512MB Graphics
- 6-c ell Lithium Ion Primary Battery (1 Year Warranty)
- 90W AC Adapter for India
- LCD Bezel with Camera
- Dell Wireless Network Card 802.11 b/g/n
- Dell Wireless 365 Bluetooth Module
- LCD Bac k Cover Wireless LAN – Aberdeen Silver
- Document SERI/EULA (English)
- Resourc e DVD of Vostro Winery
- Vostro -NB Handling and Insuranc e Charges(IN780)
- Vostro 3400BT System Chassis
- Shippment box for V3400
- Palmrest with Finger Print Reader
- 1 Yr Next Business Day Onsite Servic e
- Internal Dell(TM) Bac klit Keyboard (English)
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Ati or Intel have better OSS graphics support…
They didn’t have an ATI option for this system. I don’t mind waiting for nouveau to mature and I’ll fall back to kmod-nvidias until then.
Enjoy, but Fedora 13 and 14 probably won’t work on this laptop 😦 They will lock up randomly shortly after booting. Ubuntu 10.10 has the same problem, but you’ll get on fine with Ubuntu 10.04.
If you get the lockups too and want to help me figure out how to get Fedora working then drop me an e-mail.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613763 (Fedora 13)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=640755 (Fedora 14)
Hey!
Thanks for the info. It’s really sad to see that the system locks up. I’ll help you debug this once I’ve gotten my system up. Will be about two weeks though.
regards,
Ankur
It is bad if fedora 14 not working on news system .
But is a good laptop . Enjoy .
I got a dell vostro 3500. I intentionally showed my fingers @ nvidia 🙂 . https://arunsag.wordpress.com/2010/08/16/dell-vostro-3500-and-fedora-13/
The multimedia keys and the wifi switch are not working for me (have to call dell customer support). The laptop build is solid. But i hate its size , kind of bulky 🙂
By the way how did you get vostro? To buy n-series from dell India you have to run a small business i suppose?
You do? I don’t know. Heh. I called the sales contact and placed my order. I don’t mind the size etc., it’s going to be my workhorse !!