May 24th, 2007
Dell's Ubuntu-powered line
Dell’s finally lifted the lid on the Ubuntu line. Here are the details:
Dimention E520 N
Starter model:
- Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E4300 (1.8GHz, 800 FSB)
- Ubuntu Desktop Edition version 7.04
- 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs
- 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache
Starting price - $599
Options (default indicates starter options):
- CPU:
- Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 (1.8GHz) - default
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 (1.86GHz)
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 (2.13GHz) - OS:
- Ubuntu 7.04 no support - default
- Ubuntu 7.04 30 days standard support
- Ubuntu 7.04 1 year basic support
- Ubuntu 7.04 one year standard support - Monitors:
- 19 inch Samsung widescreen panel
- 15 inch analog flat panel
- 17 inch analog flat panel - default
- 20 inch widescreen digital panel
- 22 inch widescreen digital panel
- 20 inch UltraSharp widescreen digital panel - RAM:
- 1GB DDR2 - default
- 2GB DDR2
- 4GB DDR2 - Hard drive:
- 250GB 7200RPM SATA - default
- 320GB 7200RPM SATA - Optical drive:
- 48x CD-RW/DVD combo - default
- 16x DVD+/-RW
- Dual 16x DVD ROM and 48 CD-RW/DVD combo
- 16x DVD ROM and 16x DVD+/-RW - Video card:
- Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 - default
- 256MB nVIDIA GeForce 7300LE TurboCache - Sound card:
- Integrated 7.1 channel audio - default
Inspiron E1505 N
Starter model:
- Intel Pentium dual-core proc T2080(1MB Cache/1.73GHz/533MHz FSB
- Ubuntu Edition version 7.04
- 512MB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 DIMM
- 80GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive
Starting price - $599
Options (default indicates starter options):
- CPU:
- T7200 (2.0GHz)
- T5600 (1.83GHz)
- T5300 (1.73GHz)
- T2350 (1.86GHz)
- T2080 (1.73GHz) - default - OS:
- Ubuntu 7.04 no support - default
- Ubuntu 7.04 30 days standard support
- Ubuntu 7.04 1 year basic support
- Ubuntu 7.04 one year standard support - LCD Panel:
- 15.4 inch XGA
- 15.4 inch XGA with TrueLife - default
- 15.4 inch UltraSharp widescreen WXGA+ with TrueLife
- 15.4 inch UltraSharp widescreen SXGA+ with TrueLife - RAM:
- 512MB DDR2 - default
- 1GB DDR2
- 2GB DDR2
- 2GB DDR2 667MHz - Hard drive:
- 100GB 7200RPM SATA
- 160GB 5400RPM SATA
- 80GB 7200RPM SATA
- 120GB 5400RPM SATA
- 80GB 5400RPM SATA - default - Optical drive:
- 24x CD burner/DVD combo - default
- 8x CD/DVD+/-RW double-layer write
XPS 410 N
Starter model:
- Intel Core 2 Duo Processor E4300 (2MB L2 Cache,1.8GHz,800FSB)
- Ubuntu Desktop Edition version 7.04
- 1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz - 2 DIMMs
- 250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache
Starting price - $849
Options (default indicates starter options):
- CPU:
- Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 (1.8GHz) - default
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6320 (1.86GHz)
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 (2.13GHz)
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4GHz)
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (2.66GHz) - OS:
- Ubuntu 7.04 no support - default
- Ubuntu 7.04 30 days standard support
- Ubuntu 7.04 1 year basic support
- Ubuntu 7.04 one year standard support - RAM:
- 1GB DDR2 - default
- 2GB DDR2
- 4GB DDR2 - Hard drive:
- 250GB SATA - default
- 320GB SATA
- 500GB SATA - Optical drives:
- Dual 16x DVD-ROM and 16x DVD+/-RW
- 16x CD/DVD burner - default
- Dual 48x combo and 16x CD/DVD burner - Monitors:
- 19 inch UltraSharp digital panel - default
- 19 inch Samsung flat panel
- 20 inch widescreen digital panel
- 22 inch widescreen digital panel
- 20 inch UltraSharp widescreen digital panel
- 24 inch UltraSharp widescreen digital panel - Video card:
- 256MB nVIDIA GeForce 7300LE TurboCache - default - Sound card:
- Integrated 7.1 channel audio - default
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