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Last month Dell announced their partnership with Ubuntu, now finally the first batch of PCs featuring preloaded Ubuntu Linux is being sold at Dell’s Open site. So, let’s look at what they are offering? Currently they have 2 desktop PCs and 1 laptop. Desktop configurations as follows:
Dimension E520 N – $599
Intel® Core™2 Duo Processor E4300 (1.8GHz, 800 FSB)
Ubuntu Desktop Edition version 7.04
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz- 2DIMMs
250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™

XPS 410 N – $849
Intel® Core™ 2 Duo Processor E4300 (2MB L2 Cache,1.8GHz,800FSB)
Ubuntu Desktop Edition version 7.04
1GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 667MHz – 2 DIMMs
250GB Serial ATA 3Gb/s Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™

and laptop configuration:

Inspiron E1505 N – $599
Intel® Pentium® dual-core proc T2080(1MB Cache/1.73GHz/533MHz FSB
Ubuntu Edition version 7.04
512MB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 533MHz, 2 DIMM
80GB 5400rpm SATA Hard Drive

These prices are for the default configurations, if you opt you can go for additional upgrades.

I think for the home and office user the specs are quite reasonable. But for power users, developers and such these specs must be upgraded.

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Continuing my post on how to use old PCs this post is about how you can use your old PC as a spare Desktop. You can use it for listening music, do some text processing and surf the internet.

In my case I chose a Dell box with Pentium II, 399Mhz CPU, 64MB RAM and 4GB HDD. I am quite sure you can find one of these at home or at your working place just lying idle.

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