system76.com — Everyone remember that spiffy white 13.3 inch screen ultra portable laptop offered by system 76. Well they didn't change the name, they are still calling it the darter ultra, but now its sporting a built in webcam, a smaller 12.1 inch screen, and much better internal specs, (the improvements?: socket P, 10/100/1000, and bigger sata hard drives)
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richardiscoolJul 23, 2007
EVERYONE KNOWS, YOU RETARD.
izzieJul 23, 2007
with its 14" screen the inspiron 1420N isnt ultra portable. someone looking for an ultraportable wouldn't even consider buying it.
izzieJul 23, 2007
that's exactly the point! many people (including me) are ready to pay more to have less (less weight, smaller size, less encumbrance, less bundled OS, less useless gadgets,...)
psywolfJul 23, 2007Submitter
yea, i posted this and I'm about fed up with people and the price. drag's post pretty much sums it up. For the record, if anyone is curious. The old darter was based on the Asus Z35Fm barebones kit and the new one is based on the MSI-1221 barebones kit. I know that i ought to dish out the extra money to help out system 76 (a company that i really like), but its cheaper for me to buy the parts and build it myself. I would like to give them credit though, for testing various barebones kits to find out which ones work particularly well with Linux.oh and i think that they ditched the old model because Asus stopped making it.
jlduggerJul 23, 2007
Actually, "they" can't. Canonical donated 10 million to the Ubuntu Foundation, enough to support Ubuntu's current commitments to support and maintain the LTS at least. Even if Canonical withdraws support from Ubuntu proper, they've put in place certain firewalls that theoretically separate Canonical from Ubuntu.I say theoretically because Canonical employees at the moment represent the majority of board members and council members. If Canonical and employees agree it's in their best interests to shut down Ubuntu, they very well might be able to. But for the moment it would be a huge, gargantuan mistake, and over time I suspect the balance of Canonical to non Canonical members will shift. It only makes sense that the current system is in favor of Canonical, as they started the project -- they made up the vast majority of Ubuntu developers. For the moment Canonical remains the largest contributer to Ubuntu -- through it's QA system Launchpad and direct monetary donation. I'm curious to see if other companies will begin to hire people specifically because they're Ubuntu core developers, and how Canonical will cope with other businesses pushing Ubuntu in directions. At the moment Canonical seems to be the go-to man for Ubuntu experience, so they don't have to worry about it I guess.
sanchoJul 23, 2007
Sure. It wasn't that hard:<a class="user" href="http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1210?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs">http://www.dell.com/content/products/productdetails.aspx/xpsnb_m1210?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs</a>The base system has 1GB RAM, 80GB hard drive, and an Nvidia card. Base price is $1000, though right now you can get it for $100.