My Dell Arrived
Luckily, my laptop is not (yet) in the recall list for the Dell / Sony battery fiasco. It is, as previously mentioned, a Dell Latitude D820, which should run Linux perfectly, almost out of the box. It arrived today (a day late) at around 7pm, CST.I've been sick and don't have the energy to go up to the office to get the Fedora Core 5 CD's. Instead, I fired up the machine with Windows XP, to ensure that the hardware was exactly as I had specified from palmetto_computer and to ensure there were no dead pixels. Dell has a dead pixel replacement agreement, but requires that 6 pixels be bad. I was concerned that with 1920x1200 pixels on the screen (2.3 million of the little buggers), that one or two would be bad.
Google showed me a quick utility called Dead Pixel Buddy, which I downloaded and put through its paces. It revealed no dead pixels!
I next downloaded and installed Firefox, which is a requisite to do any web browsing, and then located a program called CPUMark to test out the new Intel Centrino Duo Core processor. After a few minutes of running, it reported that the CPUMark score is 7438.0.
Test One score: 933.7. Test Two score: 427.3. Test Three score: 8403.4.
I installed the same program on my year-old HP Pavilion 6008cl, running an AMD 3200+ 64-bit processor and found a CPUMark score of 3891.7.
Test One score: 787.8. Test Two score: 869.3. Test Three score: 3601.4.
Which means that the CPU of the new Dell is almost twice as fast as that of the old HP!
I will post more, later, as I get this machine setup to run under Linux.
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