DELL

Inatalling Ubuntu 7.10 beta on DELL XPS M1330

General Hardware Specifications of DELL XPS M1330:

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  No special procedure required during installation.
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  Works
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  Can be detective automatically during install.
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  Works
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  System will remind you to install restricted driver(automatically)
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  No special procedure required during installation
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  No special procedure required during installation
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  Works
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  No special procedure required during installation
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  Works
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  No special procedure required during installation
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  Works
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  Can search the available wireless signals automatically after installed
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  Support but didn&#8217;t test
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  I don&#8217;t know how to get connection with my cell phone.
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  Works (Only tested SD cards)
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  No special procedure required.
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Hardware Components
Intel Core 2 Duo T7300 2.0 GHz 4MB L2 Cache 800MHz FSB
13.3 UltraSharp(TM) WXGA (1280×800) CCFL TrueLife(TM)
NVIDIA GeForceTM Go 8400M GS with 128MB dedicated DDR3 graphics memory
2GB (2×1024) 667MHz dual channel DDR2 SDRAM
160GB (5400 RPM) SATA Hard drive
No Floppy Drive
Integrated Network Card
No Modem
8X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW Drive)
Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini card
56Whr Lithium Ion Battery (6 cell)
High Definition Audio 2.0
Bluetooth
Internal Digital Card Reader

This laptop is operating under Kernel version 2.6.22

Installed Ubuntu 7.10 Beta

Yesterday was a fantastic day, because I could run Ubuntu on my laptop. I had heard about Linux when I was in primary school. I tried to get one and use it, but always couldn’t achieve it. Sometime my parents didn’t buy it for me(the Internet was not that strong in that days), or sometimes I didn’t have a computer for my own use(if I installed Linux, others couldn’t use the computer), or most of the time my laptop didn’t support Linux.

和Linux无缘

昨天我盼望已久的DELL XPS M1330终于寄到了，感觉很不错。重量不沉，2G内存使得运行默认的Windows Vista跑的相当流畅。机器的包装也非常讲究，除去背包不算，一个与本子合身的小包就显得很优雅了。早知道会有这么一个包，我就不订背包了。加上这个小包，本子可以比较安全的放在任何一个包里。没有背包上显眼的XPS三个大字，显得不那么张扬。