<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Dell has changed tunes. They sell 4 laptops with Ubuntu pre-installed starting at $549 so no installation headaches or hardware that doesn't work.<br><br>http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs<br><br><br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ----<br>From: Peter Kuykendall <peterkuykendall@hotmail.com><br>To: CLUE tech <clue-tech@cluedenver.org><br>Sent: Sunday, October 5, 2008 10:01:00 PM<br>Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Laptop<br><br>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I forgot to mention that as of last November Dell
was pretty Linux-hostile. I had no choice but to pay for either Vista or
XP, and there was ZERO support for Linux by Dell for this model.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">Once I got it (XP) I imaged the hard drive and then
installed Ubuntu 7.10. That went OK but there were several annoyances in
getting various bits and peices running properly under Linux. Eventually I
got it all going but it was an exercise in finding various posted solutions and
sorting out which ones worked versus which ones did not. It probably took
20 hours of trial and error and fiddling to get it all running
right.</font></div>
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<a rel="nofollow" title="peterkuykendall@hotmail.com" ymailto="mailto:peterkuykendall@hotmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:peterkuykendall@hotmail.com">Peter Kuykendall</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"><b>To:</b> <a rel="nofollow" title="clue-tech@cluedenver.org" ymailto="mailto:clue-tech@cluedenver.org" target="_blank" href="mailto:clue-tech@cluedenver.org">CLUE tech</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 05, 2008 7:20
PM</div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I bought a Dell Vostro 1000 last November.
It has already suffered a failure of a spring in the left mouse button, and
also a battery failure in 2 of 3 cells. The battery failure could
possibly be in the contacts in the chassis not picking up all of the separate
cells.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">It's getting shipped off to the Dell service
depot in Houston tomorrow. Luckily it was under warranty for these
failures. Whatever fails 8 weeks from now will not be
covered.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">I would not go near Dell with a 10 foot
pole.</font></div>
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<div><font size="2" face="Arial">- Pete</font></div>
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<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;">----- Original Message ----- </div>
<div style="background: rgb(228, 228, 228) none repeat scroll 0% 0%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial; font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"><b>From:</b>
<a rel="nofollow" title="spidna@gmail.com" ymailto="mailto:spidna@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:spidna@gmail.com">Yuko Jonah</a>
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<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; -x-system-font: none;"><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, October 05, 2008 3:01
PM</div>
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<div dir="ltr">I am in the market for a new laptop, what would you guys
recommend for light office/home use. been looking at hp and Toshiba. i just
want something that will not heat up so bad. Any suggestions.<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Yuko Jonah<br><br>-There is no evil greater than that
committed by those who claim to do their deeds in the name of God.<br></div>
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