[Nottingham] query on new laptop

[Frederic Vagner]

Hi,

I just got a brand new laptop from DELL, Precision M4500, I use Fedora
13, and I transferred my home directory from my old Dell XPS M1210 to
the new install of Fedora.
Everything is working perfectly fine except Wifi (the card is a Broadcom
BCM43224, apparently too recent, the group working on the driver says
that they are working on supporting this new chipset, on their website),
and the 3D rendering on the nVidia Quadro FX880M, but it should work in
the next few days, when I get around to it.

I think it also depends which distro you want to use on your laptop, and
how much time you want to spend to set it up properly. I would recommend
Fedora or Ubuntu as they are more user-friendly when it comes to setting
up all the bits and pieces like Wifi, Video cards/screen and USB.

Also, DELL is good, but more expensive than Acer, for example, however
I've never tried Acer.

Fred


On Wed, 2010-07-14 at 11:18 +0100, James of the Family Moore wrote:
> Well... I've just installed OpenSuSE 11.1 on a Dell 
> threw-it-together-out-of-spare-parts (OK the base is an Inspiron 8200 
> with a processor upgrade from a 1.2GHz Celeron to a Mobile P4 at 1.9GHz 
> but everything else is out of different machines!), things just 
> mysteriously worked. I wasn't expecting the wireless (Intel Pro/2100 
> 3B/MIM2000 Centrino) to work out of the box, to be honest, and was 
> pleasantly surprised to discover that in fact it does. Apart from 3D 
> acceleration on the GF4 MX440 graphics which I hope to get running at 
> some point (some help there maybe? Apparently the latest NVidia package 
> doesn't support the chip...)
> 
> 
> 
> On 14/07/2010 10:37, Michael Simms wrote:
> > My HP laptop worked first time installing Linux on it. Everything 
> > 'just worked' including bluetooth, wifi, webcam, everything. I was 
> > very pleasantly surprised. I'd always recommend their stuff at this 
> > point.
> >
> > Michael Simms, CEO - Tux Games LTD
> > http://www.tuxgames.com
> >
> > On 07/13/2010 09:03 PM, stripes wrote:
> >> Hi Folks,
> >>
> >> I am planning to get a new 64-bit laptop (prefer NVDIA graphics) and
> >> run ubuntu.  What makes would you suggest?   I prefer HP and Dell
> >> (have an XPS 1330 running lucid lynx) and have had experience with
> >> Acer (mixed) and Toshiba (not so good).
> >>
> >> Any suggestions?
> >>
> >> thanks
> >> stripes
> >>
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