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Dell Latitude D600

post #1 of 9
12/21/06 at 6:34pm
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Hello, I have narrowed my laptop buying search to a Latitude D600 because I don't need anything powerful as to be a gaming computer. Questions for you highly intelligent laptop consumers..

Where can I find the best deal on a good refurbished Dell Latitude D600?

I saw on the Dell Financial Services website that an ad had 15% off a Latitude D-series laptops..now it is 100$..which is about 20$ more off...do you think they will continue having sells..so i should wait for awhile and see if they go down further?

How well does the new Fedora Core 6 work on it?

Anyone know if Mepis works fine?

Anyone like this laptop as a "Linux laptop" for programming and stuff like that?

Thanks, Zach

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post #2 of 9
12/21/06 at 8:03pm
Best place to buy would probably be from the Dell outlet. Dell does not follow any particular pattern to their deals so it is hard to tell if they will continue them, make them better, make them worse or take them away. I would say look on Dell outlet until you find one you like/can afford then buy it, there is strategy involved in getting good deals in the outlet (mostly needed for highly sought notebooks like the M90) If you can't seem to get a notebook you like PM me and I'll send you some info on it. I would think Linux would work fine, just search and see if the appropriate drivers are avaliable. Sorry I don't have answers for your other questions.
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post #3 of 9
12/21/06 at 8:16pm
even better would be to get one from ebay.
you'd find resellers that sell off-lease latitudes or precisions for pretty good prices.
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post #4 of 9
12/21/06 at 8:18pm
oh..and btw, Ubuntu worked pretty well on it. I had the intel wireless card, which worked right outta the box.
Also, make sure u get the SXGA screen. I had the XGA screen, and hated it.
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post #5 of 9
12/28/06 at 8:23pm
My wife owns this one. We run SUSE 10.1 on it right now. Everything works quite well. It's not as sturdy as te newer models... ours was a refurb from Dell. I've seen them for <$500 on hardforum and (I think) here as well.
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post #6 of 9
12/28/06 at 9:53pm
the latest (stable) release of mepis is suffering a substantial memory leak problem (dont know if the unstable fixed it yet or not) so i would be careful with that distro, FC6 has received some less than favorable reviews...so be careful there too.

that said, the D600 is a 1/2 way decent system...not the best, but you could do worse.
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post #7 of 9
1/7/07 at 1:40am
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Originally Posted by abf
the latest (stable) release of mepis is suffering a substantial memory leak problem (dont know if the unstable fixed it yet or not) so i would be careful with that distro, FC6 has received some less than favorable reviews...so be careful there too.

that said, the D600 is a 1/2 way decent system...not the best, but you could do worse.

FC6 = Bloatware (like most .rpm distros, but that's another argument).

At this point, any modern distro should work just fine, as long as it's got decent hardware detection. On my dell, out of the box working perfectly: *buntu, mepis, suse, mandriva, fedora, vector. With a little tweaking: debian, blag, etc. (The tweaking on Debian was xorg config, the tweaking on Blag was that ndiswrapper had massive issues for some reason I still haven't figured out).

At any rate, if you are looking for a good lightweight system, run Fluxbuntu... the wonderful hardware compatibility, and release scheduling of ubuntu, but with a much lighter footprint.

-olly
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post #8 of 9
1/8/07 at 1:50am
I would give xubuntu a shot... I just gave the edgy version a shot and am really impressed.
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post #9 of 9
1/8/07 at 2:24am
i am starting to hear less than favorable write-ups about xubuntu. mostly because its being "gnomerized" which adds to the footprint and thus really sorta defeats the purpose of xubuntu...to be a lightweight system.

if you want light...my best advice is either elive (one of my personal favorites), grml (debian based hacker distro), arch (and build your own with e17, flux, or xfce), or Vector. never really liked zenwalk or kate for some reason.
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