Comments on: Laptop Review: Dell XPS m1330n (Ubuntu Pre-Installed)

By: Weekly Rewind #41 | Adventures In Open Source

Weekly Rewind #41 | Adventures In Open Source — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:36:41 +0000

[...] that in a minute, but something else happened on that morning. I got a new battery for my trusty Dell XPS m1330 laptop. I bought a brand new Dell original 9 cell off eBay. Getting computer parts on eBay can be risky at [...]

By: Distro Review: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala | Adventures In Open Source

Distro Review: Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala | Adventures In Open Source — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:22:56 +0000

[...] something to keep me entertained. The install took about 40mins, almost double what it used to on this hardware. Again this may be attributable to the beta nature of the software, but I have to report as I find. [...]

By: Steven Weiss

Steven Weiss — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 18:54:19 +0000

I ordered this laptop with ubuntu, but was frustrated that a number of its features are not implemented under ubuntu. After more than a year of running it with Linux I switched to Vista, and now have capabilities on the machine I had always wished for, like full hdmi out (I can now stream hd video from laptop to my big Sony TV.)

I continue to Linux on my older more modestly powered machines.

I was surprised how much of the hardware was recognized when Vista installed. Microsoft is getting better, it seems.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:04:08 +0000

@Gerhard – I had heard a rumour about this, but there were still a couple of laptops on the UK site last time I looked. I’ll check again now. I know the US site has a choice of 5 different Ubuntu machines, the UK site used to have 3 at it’s peak. Now I think they have less. In other European countries there’s usually nothing. Were you looking at the German site or the UK one?

Edit: Ok I just checked and it seems Dell have redesigned their UK website. The only Ubuntu machine I can find it the Mini 10 netbook. No laptops or desktops at all, that sucks

By: Gerhard

Gerhard — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 08:13:46 +0000

Hi Dan,
Iḿ sorry to say that I did not find any Dell laptops with ubuntu anymore at their shop.
Just one netbook.

Gerhard

By: Upgrading Dell m1330 BIOS from Ubuntu Linux (Deb systems) | Adventures In Open Source

Tue, 20 Jan 2009 01:25:57 +0000

[...] my main machine at the moment. I bought it from Dell last year with Ubuntu pre-installed and did a full review with lots of pictures at the time. It’s almost a year old now and I’m still very happy [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:40:00 +0000

@ben Yeah I know a few people have succeeded in getting refunds out of Dell for the Windows tax. It’s a good option. Nice work with those school machines! People are always resistant to change, I bet in time that person will get used to OpenOffice and just use that instead. Good solution installing it in a VM though

By: ben2tak

ben2tak — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 13:31:00 +0000

I’d be a little annoyed at the missing hardware from the Vista package – I’d like to buy the Vista package, then tell Dell I need a refund because I don’t wanna agree.

They could always replace it with a Ubuntu machine free of charge – but EULA for Vista states they will refund – in England this is easy to enforce. Maybe it’s not worth the hassle, but I like to be bloody awkward when faced by fascism on this scale.

As for SCHOOL use – I just installed Ubuntu on three machines in my school. One secretary complained about lack of MS Word, so with her machine (licenced already for XP) I reinstalled her XP in virtualbox, and then installed Word there – she’s happy – but I noticed she’s using Open Office more.

Cool.

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:05:00 +0000

I would say so, depends what you mean by school use. I know a lot of schools use Windows-only software, I would use Linux as your main OS and run any Windows software safely in a virtual machine if you need to, best of both worlds

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 23:58:00 +0000

Would you recomend i get one of these for school use?