My old Dell laptop finally died a few weeks ago. It had been on its “last legs” for quite some time, but when the screen refused to display anything the other week I knew it was no more
Dell have been running quite a few attractive offers on both desktops and laptops over the past few months, so the price on the Inspiron 630m wasn’t as high as I expected.
The laptop ships with Windows XP Home pre-installed, though there are no media included (aren’t they meant to ship the media with all new PCs?).
I was hoping to set it up as a dual boot, but made a bit of a mess of the windows partition. I’m not overly concerned as I really don’t need windows for anything these days anyway. It’s not as if I ever intend using the laptop for gaming..
I’d love to give some really “fascinating” insights into installing Ubuntu breezy on a 630m, but it was a really boring process. It just worked!
The only minor tweak that was required was the wireless card settings in the bios, which for some reason are off on boot by default.
Apart from that it was dead boring 🙂
The entire process would have only taken an hour (including downloading all the updates etc.,) if I hadn’t wasted so much time trying to repartition the hard drive to allow for the dual boot (of course I messed that up 🙂 )
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