[MLUG] Switching from Bell

[Fabian Rodriguez]

On 12/30/2008 08:37 PM, Alex Bedard wrote:
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> On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 8:05 PM, a gardner <ariccanfly at gmail.com 
> <mailto:ariccanfly at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     As a side note, I've got the Dell inspiron 1525, which comes
>     preloaded with ubuntu.
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>     and it still has myriad hardware issues.
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>     bah!
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>     Anyone ever gotten a laptop where everything works the year you
>     bought it?
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> Inspirons are notoriously bad, specially the 1500 series. They have 
> issues with the ATI chipset (ATI north/south bridge chipset). Pretty 
> much everything is wrong with these laptops, from the quality of the 
> casing, to the internal components.
Dell + Ubuntu ships with Intel chipsets FYI.

Cheers,

Fabian