Dell Laptop Recommendation

[Sean Parsons]

Mark,
	Before you toss that Dell, check this website:
http://www.parts-people.com/ I use them and they are great! Flat rate
repairs are really cost effective for those older laptops.....

	On a secondary note I usually buy latitudes from dell for work, they
all seem to like any version of Ubuntu and they're relatively bullet proof.


Sean Parsons

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:plug-discuss-bounces at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us] On Behalf Of Mark
Phillips
Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2009 9:59 AM
To: Phoenix Linux Users
Subject: Dell Laptop Recommendation

My Dell Latitude just died...a subject for a different post. I just received
an advertisement from Dell for a Studio 1555 on sale for $699 (Windows 7).
The Dell sales rep said it is also Linux compatible. I want to install
Debian testing on it.  It has a dual core 64 bit processor. I have never had
a 64 bit processor pc before. 

Are 32 bit Debian packages/apps compatible with this processor? 

Are most Debian packages 64 bit today, or just a subset? Large, small
subset? Growing?
 
Is there a way to re-install the windows 7 as a virtual os or am I stuck
with a dual boot situation?
 
Finally, has anyone every used this beast, or other 15" Dell Studio laptops?
Do you like it? Hate it? Why?

Thanks!
 
Mark
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