[Tfug] Netbooks and Linux - suggestions?

[Marco Savo]

Hello,
I *wrongly* bought a dell mini 10, with GMA500, because at the end has a
better battery, (smaller and 28w/hr) better screen and with a better lasting
processor, but HAS GMA500. The problem is that the driver are proprietary,
not even made from Intel, I got Ubuntu working on it, everything works fine
now but I'm not able to watch videos on youtube (I don't know if you're able
to do it on GMA950)
You can buy a Dell mini 10v for 239 dollars on dell outlet, 160 GB HD !GB
Ram Atom N270 1.6 GHz:

http://outlet.us.dell.com/ARBOnlineSales/topics/global.aspx/arb/online/en/InventorySearch?c=us&cs=22&l=en&s=dfh
(order by price)


On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Jim March <1.jim.march at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Bowie J. Poag<bpoag at comcast.net> wrote:
> >
> > Dell Inspiron Mini 10V. We love ours. $325 at Best Buy.
> >
> > It also happens to be 100% Hackintosh-compatible, so you can
> > dual-and-then-some boot between Linux/Winblows/OS X. :)
> >
> > Looks good, too.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Bowie
>
> At first I thought I was going to have to chew Bowie out, but no: the
> 10v has the Intel 945 video chipset which is Linux compatible and good
> enough for a two-pane Compiz "cube" (really a flat plane you flip over
> for two desktops).  The new Intel driver stack now fully sorted out in
> Karmic will work with it.  Not Intel's fastest chip but it's probably
> their most stable - moreso than the 965 for sure.  I ran a machine
> with that chip for a while, worked damned good, Rocco has it now :).
>
> The Mini-10 without the "v" is to be avoided at all costs, that's the
> one with the GMA500 turd-disguised-as-a-video-chip thing.
>
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Marco Savo
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