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04-23-2004
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Description:
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WUXGA, 1920 x 1200, Nvidia 64mb, Sigmatel modem, Broadcom ethernet and wireless, firewire, I/R, bluetooth, 2.5ghz P4 processor, 1gb of RAM, 80gb hard disk, USB 2.0, CD burner, DVD burner
Pros - great screen, fast machine, does everything I need and will last for 3 years as I purchased 3 year full warranty warranty (cost extra)
Cons- Heavy laptop, battery life poor under XP (2.5hrs) and especially Linux (1.5hrs maximum) , gets alarmingly hot under any O/S,
Big sticker says 'Designed for XP' and that's true. Everything works under XP with no fuss. This machine, as at April 2004, needs cutting/bleeding edge Linux to get everything running properly and numerous 'hacks/tweaks' to get most of the hardware to work. Fortunately a Google will show up many "How to install Linux on 8500" web pages.
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Debian 3.0 Inspiron 8500 WUXGA 1920 x 1200 Nvidia Broadcom DVD burner CD bluetooth firewire
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/sbin/lspci output:
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pcilib: Cannot open /sys/bus/pci/devices
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset Host Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82845 845 (Brookdale) Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 83)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801DBM LPC Interface Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801DBM (ICH4) Ultra ATA Storage Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801DB (ICH4) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV28 [GeForce4 Ti 4200 Go AGP 8x] (rev a1)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401 100Base-T (rev 01)
0000:02:01.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI4510 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
0000:02:01.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments PCI4510 IEEE-1394 Controller
0000:02:03.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94306 802.11g (rev 02)
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