Alex Shenoy Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 I was wondering it anyone here had tried out the Dell XPS M1330 Ubuntu laptop. I am considering a purchase and need some feedback. Does Dell provide drivers easily? I will probably remove the stock Ubuntu 8.04 and replace it with Kubuntu 8.04. Also, has anybody had any problems converting to another distro such as OpenSuSE? I am in love with KDE4 and will probly switch to the distribution with the most unaltered KDE4 environment. My basic questions involve installing drivers for the M1330. I just want to know what kind of hassle I will be looking forward to when I wipe the stock Ubuntu to replace it with a different distro. Thanks for the help, Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kyro Posted May 3, 2008 Share Posted May 3, 2008 http://blog.higherthings.org/borghardt/article/3077.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Shenoy Posted May 3, 2008 Author Share Posted May 3, 2008 I was talking about the actual Ubuntu laptop itself. The one that comes with Ubuntu preinstalled. Do they use ndiswrapper for the driver? that seems kind of awkward. This guy looks like he took a Windows version and installed Ubuntu on it. I was under the impression that the Dell solutions had drivers for all the hardware. So I could just download the drivers and install them. Is this not the case. I might just go with a System76 notebook. I know they have a driver repo. But I did kind of have my heart set on the XPS M1330. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted May 4, 2008 Veteran Share Posted May 4, 2008 According to this blog review of the M1330, Dell uses NDISwrapper. Don't know how "awkward" it is, since I don't use wireless (desktop Linux user here). As long as it works, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1759 Posted May 5, 2008 Share Posted May 5, 2008 As far as the laptop is concerned, I've only used an m1330 with Vista Enterprise, and would've loved if it was mine, but on my Toshiba laptop, ndiswrapper is hit or miss with it (Atheros-radio), but I'm sure Dell has gotten it to work well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Shenoy Posted May 5, 2008 Author Share Posted May 5, 2008 Actually nevermind. I just saw the specs from Canonicals partner website. They are using an Intel Wireless card. So it's definitely supported. What about bluetooth? Does anybody know which bluetooth device they are using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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