Thursday, April 15, 2010

Hardware

The machine under test here is a Dell Vostro 3300, which was shipped with following specification:
  • Vostro 3300 : Standard Base Best Config
  • LCD Back Cover : Red WLAN with Camera
  • Processor : I5-520M(2.4GHz)
  • Palmrest : Fingerprint Reader Biometric
  • Display : 13.3in Anti-Glare
  • Memory : 4096MB (2x2048) 1333MHz DDR3
  • Hard Drive : 500GB Serial ATA (7,200 Rpm)
  • Optical Drive : 8X DVD+/-RW Drive including software
  • Power Cord : 3 Wire 90W AC Adapter
  • Battery : Primary 4-cell 40W/HR LI-ION
  • Graphics : NVIDIA® Geforce™ 310M, 512MB Graphics
  • Wireless : ROW Dell Bluetooth 365 Card
  • Wireless : ROW Dell Wireless 1520 (802.11n) Half Mini Card
  • No Mobile Broadband
  • Keyboard : Internal Swedish/Finnish Qwerty Backlit Keyboard
  • Operating System : Finnish Windows WIN7 Home Premium (32Bit OS) with Recovery DVD
Out of these, I plan to replace hard drive with OCZ Vertex Series 60GB 2.5" SSD SATA II. That will also bring in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) Beta 2.

5 comments:

  1. A little question: can I use a LiveCD (openSUSE 11.3 for example) in the Dell Vostro 3300 and the Dell Wireless 1520 (802.11n) Half Mini Card will work without problem?

    Thanks!
    Sorry for my the bad English.

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  2. Does the Bluetooth works fine with Ubuntu 10.x?

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  3. Wireless card works without any problem. I tried Bluetooth with 10.2 one time and it doesn't work.

    Also I have problems with external VGA exit. When I plug an external monitor or projector, it flicks (small waves or out of phase, I don't know) or just doesn't work.

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  4. Intel GMA 4500HD integrated graphics has a problem with the VGA output rendering it unusable (no pun intended). There seems to be a patch floating around kernel.org for this issue but nothing official yet in the 2.6.35 branch as of 2.6.35-28-server on ubuntu 10.10.

    Great laptop, but that kinda sucks...

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  5. Wireless card is not working properly after movingo to opensuse 11.3 and 11.4. What's the right module I have to install?

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