My Dell Inspiron 1501

Because a bunch of people keep asking me for my system specs even though they were listed in my first post.

Mobile AMD Sempron 3500+ Processor (1.8GHz/512K)
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 with up to 256MB HyperMemory
1.5GB of 533 DDR2 RAM (using 192MB for Video Card)
160GB 5400 RPM SATA hard drive
DVD+/-RW with Dual Layer DVD+R write capacity
Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini Card (54Mbps)
Integrated Richo 3in1 card reader

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Why the Dell 1501?

The Dell 1501 are the newest Dell laptop and the only one to feature AMD processors. It's aimed directly at the budget laptop market and offers a lot of bang for your buck. My model only cost me US$630 and is the standard Dell baseline configuration except for the DVD burner upgrade. It's a solid PC if all you want to do is surf the net, write email, word processing and light gaming. What sold me was the integrated ATI X1150 graphic chipset. If I'm going to have to have an integrated graphics card it's going to the X1150. It's outperformed all others in it's price range.

Here are my Laptop specs:
Mobile AMD Sempron 3500+ Processor (1.8GHz/512K)
ATI Radeon Xpress 1150 256MB HyperMemory (integrated)
512 MB of 533 DDR2 RAM (1 Dimm)
60gb 5400 RPM SATA hard drive
DVD+/-RW with Dual Layer DVD+R write capacity
Dell Wireless 1390 802.11g Mini Card (54Mbps)

The only things that I plan on upgrading is the memory. 512K is NOT enough, but I was damned if I was going to pay Dell to upgrade it for me. For the price of Dell installing another 512K, you can buy a 1GB stick and install it yourself giving you 1.5BG. The 1501 runs Ubuntu extremely well, everything except WiFi work right out of the box. If you are thinking about a budget notebook for Windows, Ubuntu, or Linux in general it's a great little machine.

Next Up: Getting Ubuntu to Install

edited by pHreaksYcle