I've used several Dell's at work ("business" quality, i.e. Latitude D830)
while several friends have consumer-level (home) Inspirons. My advice is to
go with a "business" level one; particularly the nVidia cards and wireless
chipsets are better than on the consumer-level ones (in my experience at
least). I can't install Linux on my D830 due to work restrictions but I can
boot to a live Ubuntu CD with all hardware supported natively. It
absolutely flies running the OS from a USB stick with 3 GB RAM in the
laptop. This includes an nVidia Quadro NVS graphics card and Intel Pro
3945ABG wireless card; Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2.2 GHz.
It's a thing of beauty and I look forward to the day it's maintenance
expires at work and hopefully I become the proud owner of a decommissioned
work laptop that works effortlessly with Linux.
In general, our experience at work has been: HP desktops are great (again,
"business" grade not home or consumer grade), but HP laptops we gave up on
and went back to Dell. That's just our experience though.
HTH even a little bit.
Mark
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 11:01 AM, SAMUEL JOSE PEREIRA CARNEIRO MACDOWELL <
macdowell....@dpf.gov.br> wrote:
> I have a HP Pavillon tx1420us. I wouldn't by HP laptop anymore. I had a
> lot of problems and poor help.
>
>
> http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01087277&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jump
> id=reg_R1002_USEN<http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01087277&cc=us&dlc=en&lc=en&jump%0Aid=reg_R1002_USEN>
>
> mac
> > G'day,
> >
> > My name is Alexander Kapshuk.
> >
> > I am looking to purchase a Dell laptop with excellent Linux support
> > (Debian
> > Lenny).
> >
> > Here are the specifications I am after:
> >
> > CPU = Inter Core 2 Duo;
> >
> > RAM = 3GB or 4GB;
> >
> > Graphics Card = NVIDIA GeForce;
> >
> > Hard Drive = 250GB or 320GB;
> >
> > With a webcam;
> >
> > With a card reader;
> >
> > Wi Fi: anything but Broadcom (i was told Broadcom Wi Fi has a lousy Linux
> > support, correct me if I'm wrong);
> > I would appreciate it if somebody would recommend a model of a DELL
> laptop
> > that meets the specs above or similar as this is going to be a
> > considerable
> > investment for me and I want to make sure that the laptop I end up buying
> > has very good Linux support.
> >
> > Looking forward to hearing from any of you that would care to respond at
> > your convenience.
> >
> > Thanking you all in advance
> > Alexander Kapshuk.
> >
>
>
>
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