Dell 14" notebook shipped with Ubuntu $299 today only

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 01:52:16PM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote:
> Dell Business "10 Days of Deals" has a Vostro 2420 for $299.
> This is as cheap as a low end netbook but is better in a bunch of ways.
> 
> I'm not sure of what all the goo is in a Dell URL, so here's an RFD
> thread that refers to it
> <http://forums.redflagdeals.com/dell-smb-days-deals-day-4-14-vostro-laptop-w-i3-2328m-ubuntu-linux-299-more-1244392/>
> 
> Intel Core i3-2328M (2.2GHz).  Decent:
>   <http://ark.intel.com/products/70927/Intel-Core-i3-2328M-Processor-3M-Cache-2_20-GHz>

Way better than an atom that's for sure.

> 14" screen, surely 1366 x 768 (listed as "London Slate", but that is
>   the colour of the case!)
> Intel HD Graphics 3000 (reasonable; built into CPU chip)
> WiFi b/g/n, Bluetooth, 1G wired
> 4G RAM
> 320G HDD

Pretty reasonable for that price.

> Shipped with an unspecified version of Ubuntu.
> 4.83 lbs "Advertised System Weight".
> 
> "No productivity software" which surely means that I didn't add MS
> Office.  It cannot mean that they removed LibreOffice :-)
> 
> All in all, seems like a bargain.
> 
> Lennart would say: Dell notebooks are crap.

Well they certainly do have a history of being so.

Is it stock Ubuntu or did they modify it to make it work?

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