[H-GEN] thoughts on Dell laptops

[QuarkAV.com - Hilton Travis]

On 8/11/2010 8:21 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
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> Hi all,
> My current laptop is showing occasional faults. The guys at work 
> stress tested it but nothing came up. It looks like my laptop  has 
> turned into a lemon - but not bad enough to pinpoint a fault :(
> Anyway, I am now considering getting a new one as I don't trust my 
> current one. Since work prefers Dell I had a quick look on their web 
> site last night. I want to run Ubuntu and in my experience I am 
> looking for one with an nVidia card. On my first quick look most 
> laptops seem to have ATI cards or on-board cards.
>
> Anyone with experience of the current Dell models that can give me 
> some suggestions?
>
> Peter

The Dell XPS 15 is a grunty consumer laptop.  It has the nVidia GT 435m 
graphics chipset in it.  I'm looking at maybe dual booting mine (if it 
ever arrives, I ordered and paid for it over 3 weeks ago and Dell is yet 
to finish building it - and they've so far EOLed parts in the build 
twice) with Win 7 x64 and a Linux distro optimized for multimedia 
content generation - any suggestions on the best distro for this?

- Hilton Travis