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[ILUG] light-weight dell laptop with ubuntu?

[ILUG] light-weight dell laptop with ubuntu?

Frank Duignan frank.duignan at gmail.com
Wed Jun 25 20:28:03 IST 2008


Got a 640m with fedora and all buttons & functions just work as well as
suspend, resume etc.  Intel chipset throughout is the "magic sauce"

2008/6/25 Gavin McCullagh <gmccullagh at gmail.com>:

> Hi,
>
> On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, Brendan Kehoe wrote:
>
> > A friend of mine showed me her Dell Latitude D430 laptop ... as a
> > long-time fan of the light-toters (Fujitsu Lifebook P-2046, Sony Vaio
> > TX1XP), it struck my interest.
> >
> > Do any of you own one, which you've then set up as a dual-boot or only
> > booting with Ubuntu?
>
> I have a Latitude D410 which is a very nice, light laptop at about 1.7Kg
> with an extra long battery.  It runs Ubuntu very nicely, suspend works
> pretty well, although it occasionally (one time in 20-30) seems to hang.
> Other than that everything works really well.  The one thing that's missing
> is a cpu with virtualisation support, but I rarely have need of that so
> it's not a problem for me.
>
> Gavin
>
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