Dell’s Inspiron 15n With Ubuntu: My Thoughts

[ Thanks to Jeremy
LaCroix for this link. ]

“First of all, I didn’t buy the laptop “as
is”, I decided to customize mine quite a bit. For that
reason, the laptop I received is a bit different than the one
you’d receive unless you matched your configurations to mine.
At the time of this writing, Dell equips their Ubuntu Inspiron
15n’s with a Pentium Dual Core T4200 processor, 3GB of RAM, a
4 cell battery, an integrated Intel X4500HD graphics chip, and the
usual 802.11G wireless card.

“For my build, I chose a 2.0ghz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with
a 2MB cache, 4GB of RAM, a 9 cell battery, a brighter screen, a
green finish and a 3 year onsite warranty to avoid getting myself
into the same situation I did with Acer/Gateway. I decided not to
go with a webcam because I have no use for one. I asked my sales
guy for the smallest possible hard drive I could get, because I
didn’t really need a hard drive since I planned to reuse the
500GB hard drive that was in my Gateway. I ended up with a 160GB
drive, which I don’t think was an option on the Dell site but
I could be wrong.

“Unfortunately, I’m a bit confused about how much RAM this
laptop will support. From the instruction manual it appears that
this system supports up to 8GB, though 4GB is the most you can
order on Dell’s site, and Crucial’s site claims that
this system only supports up to 4GB. If anyone has managed to pump
8GB of RAM into this machine, please let me know in the
comments.”

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