New Dell Inspiron 700m
So I just got my new laptop the other day. It’s sooo sweet. This small & light Inspiron 700m has a Pentium M 725 1.6 GHz (faster than it sounds when compared to regular P4s), 512M ram, 40G hdd, cdrw/dvd combo drive, integrated intel 2200 wireless, 8 cell (~5 hr) battery, and 12.1” WXGA (1280×768) screen. After seeing the bundled winxp home start up with all its preinstalled systray/desktop icons, I immediately plopped in the Ubuntu Hoary CD and began peeling off the “powered by windoze” sticker. Ubuntu seems to be working quite nicely with the laptop as mostly everything was automatically configured. I did have to set it up to run this patch on bootup that somehow fixes my video driver so I actually get the right resolution. But as I read in some reviews, the glassy screen is very nice indeed.
Oh, and I’m too lazy to take a bunch of pictures of it, so I’ll just rely on other people.
Update: Wow this was so cool I had to post it. gtkwifi allows me to configure my wireless card for different networks with the convenience of a gnome panel applet. I even discovered 4 different wireless networks from my dorm room!
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It looks amazing, and I’m looking forward to a laptop as a graduation gift. How much did this set you back?
about 900, plus some 75 bucks after shipping, insurance, blahblah…
I just compiled the patch, copied the newly built binary to /usr/local/bin, and added a line to execute the patch in /etc/init.d/rc.local (for my ubuntu, your distro’s local init may vary).
I also have a Inspiron 700m and recently threw out Windows for Ubuntu. I’m trying to get Ubuntu breezy setup and I’m having major video issues. Do you still have that patch or know where I can get it anymore (the link is dead in that forum)?
I have to same laptop too. its realy great but i can’t get ubuntu to work with the wide screen. i tried installing the .855 resolution but nothing. Also cannot get ubuntu to recognize the sound card.
Can you help me out?? please..