I got a new laptop xD February 2, 2008
Posted by novaaesa in Linux, Uni.Tags: coffee brown, dell, dux, inspiron, laptop, scholarship, Uni
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Well, as the post title says, I have recently gotten a new laptop. It actually happened a about two weeks ago now but as you may have noticed I haven’t really been writing much lately here. I got it pretty much because my desktop is kinda old and I’m heading off to uni this year. I figured that a new laptop would make things easier at uni so I could take custom compilers and my own IDEs and stuff wherever I got (I’m doing software engineering). In case you are wondering, I got the money from a scholarship I won for getting dux of me school w00t!
Anyway, I’m sure you want to hear the juicy details about it so here are the specs:
It’s a Dell Inspiron 1525 with a Core 2 Duo T7250 (2.0GHz), 2GiB of RAM, Intel X3100 (Yes crappy I know but I don’t plan on doing any gaming) and a 15′ WXGA+ (1440×900) screen. Also, it has a microfibre finish which is made of metal but feels really soft. I got the finish Coffee Brown to show my support for Ubuntu. The rest of it is pretty standard with wireless, bluetooth, webcam etc. It came with Vista so that was the first thing to go. It’s now sporting a new Ubuntu Gutsy 64 bit install xD. Best thing was, it only cost me AU$1300 (with a 2 yr warranty). Computer’s can be expensive here compared to the rest of the world, so I thought it was a pretty good bargain.
Anyway, all-in-all very happy with my purchase xD
Peel the Windows Vista sticker off of it please
Overall, it looks nice
Nice! I need a new laptop. Too bad the most recent one I have is from 1996
. But anyways, nice laptop, and I see its running Ubuntu 
Vista sticker = goneskies
Three cheers for the missing sticker!
The sticker going was symbolic in a way. Windows will never reside on my laptop ever again!
And damn, it was hard to pull off the sticker as well. They must use really good adhesive.
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