Anyone tried Dell Mini

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 7:44 PM, Jim <mickeyboa at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>  Art Alexion wrote:
> > On Monday 08 September 2008 3:34:02 pm Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> >
> >> Thanks perry need a laugh today thanks again
> >>
> >
> > Here's a laugh.  The laptops come in 3 SSD sizes.  The largest size is
> only
> > available for Windows.  We buy a lot from Dell, and have our own account
> rep
> > and configurations.  We asked Dell if we could get Ubuntu on the largest
> > drive.
> >
> > The initial answer was something like "Yes you are correct, there are
> only 3
> > drive sizes."
> >
> > When we rephrased the request (in homage to the movie "Philadelphia", so
> a 4
> > year old could understand it) we were told that, "no, you can only get
> the
> > larger drive with XP preinstalled."
> >
> > So, although we are a Dell shop, we are going to give it one last shot at
> > getting a bare drive with access to any proprietary drivers for the
> Ubuntu
> > install, and then install Ubuntu ourselves.  If that fails, we are going
> to
> > buy eeePCs instead.
> >
> This is example of what I was saying earlier about the larger hard drive
> for Windows .
> I don't know what Dell has in mind about this , but is it the reason I
> won't buy a Dell Inspiron 9.
> If you get the eeePc, as far as the wireless card and webcam, you want
> to use the kernel-2.6.27-0.312 in Fedora 10.
> I'm using that kernel in FC9, on a eeePC 702
>
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That is interesting, I guess I don't understand the whole the largest drive
you can get is for the Windows XP one?  The Dell Mini w/ Ubuntu on it has a
16GB SSD drive and from the Dell site I can the largest I caan get is 16 Gig
for Windows?  Please explain what I'm missing

Jonathan
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