So £100 secured a Dell Inspiron 1520, celeron 1Gb RAM 80gb HDD Intel IG (yuck), broadcom wifi chip and Vista Home Basic
What a festering pile of shit!
Video playback jaggy user response non-existent
Well then I found Pardus, a Turkish Linux distro with that gorgeous KDE 4 (which now almost works...)
The WiFi worked out-of-the box, yes I kid you not just gave it my WPA password and bingo, broadcom! Ah!
Anyway this thing flies BETTER THAN a dual core 4GB windows 7 m/c !
AND all the multimedia keys on the side (mute, vol+/- play/pause...) all WORK
The only problem? I keep having to run setxkbmap -layout gb or else it thinks I have a US keyboard
One day I will figure out which start up script to put that in
Or just maybe I will try Mandriva... but loving this Pardus
