[Sussex] Dell Precision 650

[Steve Williams]

Geoff,

I've noticed that Dell have gone a bit cold on Linux. They used to splurge
Red Hat logos all over their catalogues, but not now. In any case I wanted
SuSE on my M50 so I set it up myself.  60Gb hard disk was more than enough
for Windows XP Pro and SuSE 8.1 Pro.

Anyway a dual Xeon box is a nice bit of kit whoever creates it. Lots of RAM,
SCSI RAID as well perhaps?

Nice. Bringing it along Thursday?

Steve Williams.

-----Original Message-----
From: sussex-admin at mailman.lug.org.uk
[mailto:sussex-admin at mailman.lug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Geoff Teale
Sent: 24 February 2003 22:06
To: sussex at mailman.lug.org.uk
Subject: RE: [Sussex] Dell Precision 650


On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 19:53, Steve Williams wrote:
> Geoff,
>
> You show me yours, I'll show you mine.
>
> Just purchased a Precision M50 notebook from Dell. Jolly nice too.
1600x1200 res screen, sales and support very good, delivery in 7 days,
on-line order tracking.
>
> On board PCI 3Com 920 nic, no install problems at all.
>
> Steve Williams.

The M50 is a nice bit of kit!

Shame the don't sell it prebuilt with LINUX... you do really have to
search hard on the Dell website to find this option even for the 450's
and 650's - they don't make it an option (the normal config page allows
you to choose from a range of Windows OS's) - you actually have to know
that it's a different model number - a precision 650n in this case.
Anyhow, a dual Xeon box should all be confirmed this week and then I
shall wait for delivery of that and a 18" Ultrasharp TFT panel along
with it... *yum*


--
Geoff Teale <tealeg at member.fsf.org>
Free Software Foundation


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