Yeah Dell is announcing the support for Ubuntu 7.10 lately, but 8.04 is still away for April.
Wish Dell introduce it in India, will save some real money instead of buying Vista.
i'm not sure what kind of deal you're expecting but a base vista system is $999 and a base ubuntu system is $949. so don't get all happy happy joy joy and rely on linux to make your hardware cheaper.
First they (all manufacturers) sell at prices higher than the international market, then they force us to buy Windows, then they release desktops/laptops with Linux and say Hey, I am not gonna introduce this in India and then you post it here saying its only available in Germ, Fr, UK, Spain. Thats like
jale pe namak chidakna!
see my above post. i'd save about a tank of gasoline for my car if i went with ubuntu instead of vista. from your post, i can see you have internet access. why not just download your distro of choice rather than let some company make your decision for you? i'm running fedora on an m1210. i did not need dell and every piece of hardware works. nvidia, webcam/mic, bt, wifi, cd/dvd ripping/burning, buttons, etc, etc.
We, in India, are scapegoats and deprived of choice!
i know what you mean. this is how i feel when i call customer service/tech support that's been outsourced to india and i get some guy that doesn't know his buttocks from a keyboard. the only reason i can think of that companies would give you the short end of the stick is, if i was going to sell something to a person that thought a person came back as a cow, i'd try and charge them more money too. or at least try and sell them property on the moon.
I am completely with you Anirudh. This is just Bull$hit(the $ is intended). Whats the point of making our stomachs churn even more than it already does telling us about over-priced laptops in india which have dirt cheap counterparts elsewere?
This really IS discrimination. Companies from asia like Acer, Asus, Toshiba, etc instead of looking at fellow asians like Indians are turning towards USA and killing us with their prices.
Whats the fugging point of telling us that a Compaq Presaro 6608 is VFM here when we KNOW that its overpriced along with everything else? The same goes for the Dell Books.
Do you see the price extra that dell charges for an extra GB of ram(two from 1 GB) ? Its a huge Rs. 2499. And they lie to us that the cost of upgrades later will be very high. An upgrade from a T5350 to a T7500 costs about Rs. 10000 from dell. This is just plain unfair. The Indian government is only making bad worse by imposing abusive taxes on Electronics calling them luxury items.
I wish we will be able to assemble our own laptops one day. Atleast make available to us some Laptop Skletons that we can improve on by adding stuff like 8700M GT, C2D 7500, Transcend Laptop RAM DDR2 4 GB, etc that we get for uncheap but much cheaper than branded laptop prices in India. And yes, Apple is the leader of such companies in their overpricing drive. The govt over-reacts when Rice becomes costlier by Re 1/- per kg but never cares when laptops become Rs. 10K costlier.
any laptop company does this. an upgrade from 1gb just to 2gb is at least 5 times more than what you get for it online yourself. even local stores are 3 times more. consumer electronics tax? there are ways around that. you should also do a little more searching online. barebones laptops have been around for awhile. even ones with dedicated graphics. also, do you really have to buy it from dell? i just bought an m1330 which is now my 5th dell laptop and 3rd one i have not bought from dell. rather than paying dell, i buy from whatever reseller i find the cheapest online. to give you an idea, i bought a 2.2ghz, 3gb ram, led screen, nvidia, a/g/n, bt, fingerprint reader, 160gb 7200 drive, 9-cell battery with a 3 year warranty m1330 that was brand new in the box for right under $1300 including shipping which took 4 days. from dell, it would have been quite a bit more even with their $499 instant savings and it would have taken at least 2 weeks to get it. i've yet to have a dell laptop go out on me so i'll still buy dell, but not from dell.
Besides, what is Dell thinking giving away Ubuntu as it is with just a few extr drivers ? They should be giving a customised ubuntu that matches the colour of the laptop bought, and with a "dell menu" instead of a gnome menu(that has the logo in it), polished gnome bars, better looking icons, better themed firefox with extentions and a game or two like UT3(its XPS. XPS=Gaming).
i thought you guys wanted the laptop to be cheaper? having dell customize linux for you is going to cost money. why pay dell for this when other people in the linux community are doing it for free? linux is free. download it, install it, compile your drivers if you need one, and viola! you're done. i've gotten everything working in linux on any laptop/desktop i've ever owned that was working in windows. even xbox's, pda's, ipod's, etc. i may even install it on my coffee maker. this thread really defeats the purpose of linux. i remember when the best option for unix was a tadpole or naturetech sun solaris laptop. these things could get up to twice as much as the top of the line m1730. now everyone wants a distro that does this or does that, match the color of my laptop, special icons, work out of the box, yada yada, and then ask, 'how do i use sudo?' or 'when i type 'make install' i get an error. in my opinion, if you rely on someone like dell to make linux work for you, you're more of a hindrance to the linux community than a supporter because you're going to be one of those people posting in a linux forum asking, 'i want to download/install compiz-fusion but i don't know how to connect to the internet!' as opposed to working out bug issues with other users.
