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I had an Inspiron 1420 that I believe packs the same graphics card as the M1330 currently ships with and had a pretty awful experience trying to get Linux (or Windows, for that matter) to drive it well. It was very choppy. I believe it was an 8400M GS.



I have a coworker with the Dell 1420 laptop that's preloaded with Ubuntu, and he hasn't had a lick of trouble. I also installed Xubuntu on my Inspiron 1750 multimedia laptop, and once I hooked it up to my router, the Hardware Drivers utility downloaded scripts and everything basically got installed for me.


Your coworker's 'top may not have had the discrete GPU mine had; I've heard that the integrated chip works great.


I have the same GPU and it works fine.




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