On 11/11/2007, David Boles <dgboles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As for Dell? I read it is poorly supported, inexpensive hardware, that > is their major problem. Again this I do *not* know. I have never owned, > or used, anything Dell. I only know what I have read and what I have > been told by others. > > Your thoughts on any of this? My experiences with Dell machines lately are quite the opposite. I have a Dell XPS M1210 laptop. Wireless is intel ipw3945 which works out of the box with F-8 die to the open source drivers. Graphics is Intel, which works out of the box with F-8 with all the compositing eye candy due to the open source intel drivers. I have two Dell desktop machines. Again, since everything in these boxes is intel (in particular the graphics) - out of the box experience on F-8 is fantastic. And, even better, Dell have done a LOT to make it utterly trivial to update the BIOS on their machines with linux - in fact the firmware-tools for Dell machines is in the Fedora repo. See also: http://linux.dell.com/wiki/index.php/Oss/Firmware_Tools Personally, I recommend Dell's current offering highly if you avoid the NVidia graphics options. Jonathan.
