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Dell Inspiron 8600
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4 42273 04-30-2009
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Recommended By Average Price Average Rating
100% of reviewers $2,000.00 9.3
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Description: CPU: Intel Pentium M 1.6Ghz
RAM: 512MB PC2700 SO-Dimm
Hard drive: 60GB 5400RPM
LCD: WSXGA 1680x1024
Video: ATI Radeon 9600 Pro Turbo 128MB
Wireless: Dell 1450 802.11a/b/g wireless card
Keywords: Inspiron 8600 laptop dell
/sbin/lspci output: 0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 440GX - 82443GX Host bridge
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 440GX - 82443GX AGP bridge
0000:00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
0000:00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
0000:00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corp. 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 02)
0000:00:0f.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905 100BaseTX [Boomerang]
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage IIC AGP (rev 7a)


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Old 12-22-2006, 09:59 PM   #1
mcanallyd
 
Registered: Jan 2006
Posts: 38

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): $2,000.00 | Rating: 10

Kernel (uname -r):
Distribution: fedora 4



I installed Fedora 4 on my Dell Inspiron 8600 and had no problems. The only thing that does not work is the Dell TrueMobile wireless card. The Ethernet port works fine, so I have not bothered with getting the wireless card working.

All I had to do was set the BIOS to boot from a CD/DVD drive. I then inserted the Fedora 4 DVD in the DVD drive, rebooted, chose the automatic partioning option, and in a few minutes this lap top was flawlessly runing Fedora 4 Linux.
 
Old 02-11-2007, 03:55 AM   #2
PB0711
 
Registered: Aug 2004
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.10, ubuntu 11.04, suse 9.2, OSX
Posts: 259

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.18
Distribution: Suse 10.2


I love it. Suse dual boots and it rocks everything works (but the ATI card). I have 1 GB RAM and 60GB 7200rpm HD. Would have given 10 but as said before ATI card doesn't work :( I wish I had Nvidia
 
Old 07-01-2007, 10:07 PM   #3
linuxlerner
 
Registered: Jun 2007
Posts: 0

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 0

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Installed the Linspire 5-O, everything worked fine. Even my Dell 1300 wireless card was recognized the first time. The only minor one is I can't set my wireless mouse to left hand.
 
Old 04-30-2009, 09:58 PM   #4
RJGularte
 
Registered: Apr 2009
Distribution: Debian Lenny /former opensuse
Posts: 5

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Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid? (in USD): None indicated | Rating: 9

Kernel (uname -r):
Distribution: openSUSE 11.1


I've had an Inspiron 8600 as dual boot for 1 yr. The only problem I've had is the microphone is not recognized. Everything else works fine and dandy.
 




  



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