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Just a quick note on installing Fedora 12 on the wife's new Inspiron 15. She's been a Ubuntu user on her previous laptop for a year or so now as suspend/wireless problems just continually popped up after Fedora updates or upgrades, but with new hardware I figured it was time for another go.

Once installed it was awesome, full resolution (Intel graphics), working sound, working wireless (I sprung for the upgrade to Intel wireless which IMO pays off for anyone planning to run Linux), working webcam, and most impressive of all beautifully working suspend, all without doing anything. Really working nicely for her.

Up a little too late tonight hacking away at my new system, here's the new smolt hardware profile.

Just a few quick notes:

• First thing I tried to do was crack open the case and install my old hard drive and video card. Motherboard had slots for neither, requires a PCI Express x16 video card, and SATA hard drive. This leaves me stuck with analog video and out 320gb of storage, but I've since learned that you can buy low end video cards for as low as $40 and $15 IDE to SATA adapters. (anyone ever use one of these? hoping it's a reliable solution.)