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Re: Vista, Vostro

sunburntkamel — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 17:41:56 -0000

Sorry about that, I don't mean to spam anyone. What browser is that? Most browsers don't allow any styling of checkboxes. Probably for that exact reason, that it would inherit the background color, but not color the check itself white.

I have no idea why the price difference is so low. Either a) microsoft is way undercharging dell b) microsoft is specifically dropping the licensing cost on models that offer Ubuntu, or c), as you've suggested, Ubuntu costs more to support.

Given the finickiness of some features (*cough*TCP Scaling*cough*), I doubt that (C) is the case.

It's really weird that the Ubuntu Inspirons don't have the option for discreet graphics cards. It might be that NVIDIA's linux drivers aren't up to snuff.

Re: Vista, Vostro

Lloyd Dewolf — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 12:20:45 -0000

Wow, only like 4 bones difference! That really surprises me, any idea why that is?

I wonder what it is costing Dell for technical (telephone) support of the Ubuntu models?

That's a bummer that Ubuntu isn't an option on the higher end models. Hopefully, that will come with time -- would be great for business/corporate penetration.

Thanks for sharing these tidbits.

Aside, I didn't even notice the default check mark in the "Notify me ... via email". Good old black on dark grey.

Re: Vista, Vostro

sunburntkamel — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 21:43:45 -0000

yeah, I would have been tempted to go whole hog, if the ubuntu laptops had the option for some decent horsepower, or if the difference between n-series latitudes and the ones bundled with windows was more than 4 dollars

Re: Vista, Vostro

Lloyd Dewolf — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 21:36:30 -0000

Buying hardware that supports Linux is an awesome move even if you choose not to run in. That sends the right message to them, though you already knew that ;-)

Re: Vista, Vostro

sunburntkamel — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 12:33:57 -0000

I'm looking forward to SP1 being less buggy (it seems to always take a service pack or two to iron things out). IE7 is a giant leap forward, but it's still not great (less prone to layout bugs, but still prone to them. ActiveX is mostly corralled, but still dangerous). My one complaint with either Calendar or Basecamp is that they don't play nicely.

Re: Vista, Vostro

Joan — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 03:44:59 -0000

Vista is still buggy of course, but beautiful. The calendar does subscribe to my Wrike, and I don;t have to use FireFox, the new Explorer works just fine. It's nice that the new Outlook is perfectly integrated with Wrike http://www.wrike.com/. I get my projects done even faster.

Re: Vista, Vostro

sunburntkamel — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 10:25:27 -0000

yeah, the Vostros and Latitudes are much more flexible in terms of screen resolution (mine's WSXGA+). It sounds like the LED's only go up to XGA? I'd honestly never heard of an LED screen.

Re: Vista, Vostro

Arpit Jacob — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 09:52:39 -0000

I am still undecided whether to buy a XPS 1530 or a Mac Book Pro. I had planned on getting one this December after the XPS 1530 came out. but Dell is not providing a led screen plus the resolution on the 1530 is too low. I decided to wait till Jan end and see.