I ordered my laptop from dell one month ago. After a processor shortage delay, my laptop is finally here. Dell gave me a upgraded processor free, so I cant really complain. It came preloaded with Vista, I just finished installing Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Most of the stuff seems to be working.

I need to make sure every hardware on this laptop works with Ubuntu(including the fingerprint reader). Thats my challenge.Look out for future posts

Overall the laptop looks strong, sturdy and beautiful, just exactly what i hoped for. I had heard reports of the ultrasharp gloss screen being too glossy to work, but I am not having any problems reading on the screen. The colors are sharp and the contrast is the best i have seen in lcd’s

here’s the config

Intel Core2 Duo T9300 2.5 Ghz 6MB l2 cache, the processor is of the first 45nm processors available here
2 Gb ram. I might upgrade this to 4gbin 6 months
15.4″ ultrasharp glossy screen
nvidia 8600 GT 256 MB
a cool nylon bag