[Leaplist] Latest Ubuntu version 8.10

[Jason Boxman]

On Thursday 20 November 2008 10:05:20 Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-11-19 at 23:11 -0500, Jason Boxman wrote:
> > I've been fortunate with my XPS M1530.  It was on clearance at Best Buy
> > for a steal.  It's been fine so far and everything works, even suspend.
>
> Everything works in Fedora 9 (I initially had some WLAN issues), but not
> 64-bit Vista.
>
> My complaint was the quality of the screen and a few other things.  I'm
> getting a blue see-thru on the backlight on darker colors from an angle.
> I've seen Dell's do this, of all models (including XPS) as well.
>
> The build/component quality of the HP dv9000 series is just much better
> IMHO.  But the features are just not as good, hence why I went for a
> Gateway P-FX series or Dell XPS -- the former being a heck of a lot
> cheaper.

Indeed.  I just got my dad a Gateway on clearance, too.  Our first.  Gateway 
suffers from the same affliction his old Toshiba does, in that it doesn't 
have the model anywhere and I forget what it is now...  Double what my specs 
are for $100 less.  Wish I waited, but I couldn't.  (4GB v 2GB, faster 
Core2Duo, almost double HD, faster ATI VC v my NV 8400GS-M, ect.)


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