fedora on dell vostro 1510?

[Robert P. J. Day]

Quoting Andrew Parker <andrewparker at bigfoot.com>:

> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch at dell.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 12:56:09PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
>> >   as a followup to an earlier post, i'm interested in finding an
>> > entry-level laptop who's most important property is that it have a
>> > full WUXGA (1920x1200) display, preferably non-NVIDIA video, and runs
>> > fedora reliably.
>>
>> May I recommend the Dell Studio 15 instead of the Vostro you were
>> looking at?  It is available with Ubuntu pre-installed, and has an
>> Intel video and WXUGA screen available.
>>
>> http://dell.com/ubuntu
>>
>> Since it runs Ubuntu, it'll run Fedora quite well also.
>
> That may not always be the case.  I bought an Inspiron 1420 from Dell
> last year with Ubuntu pre-installed and working.  I put Fedora on it,
> and it had all sorts of problems: no DVD, wired or wireless networking
> or audio.
>
> To be fair, the version of Ubuntu that it came with had been *heavily*
> doctored to get it to work, there were all sorts of pre-release
> patches installed.  Later versions of those patches wouldn't always
> work, which made updating my Fedora install awkward.
>
> DVD, audio and wired networking worked with the next version of Fedora
> though.  WiFi was extremly spotty with NetworkManager, but worked OK
> when manually configured with iwconfig, although that rapidly gets
> old.
>
> Everything works like a charm nowadays though.
>
> I'm not saying don't buy one, in fact I would still recommend one to
> the right person.  Its just that I was bitten by the assumption that
> Fedora should just work.  On the plus side, it should have hardware
> that is supported, even if drivers are currently under early
> development for it.

   i'm liking that studio 15, i think it will do everything i want.  the
only dilemma is the choice of video card -- intel x3100, or spend another
$100 for a 256MB ATI mobility radeon hd 3450.  would that $100 get me a
noticeable improvement?  recommendations?

rday