On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 02:09:44PM +0100, Niall O Broin came forth with:
> AFAIR some of you have Dell Inspiron notebooks. Is everything Linux usable
> e.g. built-in NIC, modem, sound, video ? Quick answers appreciated - I'd
> like to order one today if I can and if it's suitable.
>the expensive or the cheap ones?
Vincent Cunniffe has the Inspiron 8000, and Daire has the Latitude C800,
which are basically the same, and apart from some braindead BIOS stuff
(which makes the default pcmcia drivers crash the machine, it's fixed in the
newer ones (read AC's diary)), they work fine.. 1400x1050 :)
L.
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