Dell

Forum member ottermaton reported minor problems optimizing the touchpad and getting the wireless working, but it's working fine now. See the linked sections for details.

Forum member oshunluvr just purchased a Dell Vostro V13 with these specs:

Intel® CoreTM 2 Duo SU7300 (1.3GHz/800Mhz FSB/3MB cache) 13.3 inch Wide Display HD (1366 x 768) with Anti-glare 2GB6 DDR3 SDRAM at 1066MHz 320GB10 SATA hard drive (7200RPM) Video Card Integrated Intel® 4500MHD Graphics Media Accelerator Bluetooth, wireless, sd card reader, webcam.

All functions worked well “out-of-the-box” with the exception of bluetooth which only required installing blueman and disabling the bluetooth gadget. Works well using compiz also.

Installs easily, runs smoothly and fast. Sound, video, NIC, wireless, and camera detected and auto-configured. Only problem is that it would not resume from suspend - machine “wakes up” but screen remains black. This is caused by Intel SpeedStep which can be disabled in the BIOS and then suspend works fine. Drawback is the CPU speed can not be lowered to save battery. There may be a better solution that allows both, but I only did a brief search (slowing the CPU is unnecessary for me, so I stopped after finding that). – ottermaton

Intel Core 2 Duo @1.2 GHz, 1G RAM. Everything that was tested worked right out of the box, even firmware for the proprietary Broadcom BCM4311 wireless module was installed automatically. Works great with my docking station. Version is Bodhi Linux 2.0. – mhfj

This was gifted to me and has an Intel Core 2 Duo @ 2Ghz and 1G of RAM. I don't know much about it besides that, but, then again, I didn't need to: everything works out of the box. And, as a special bonus, Bodhi is FAST on this somewhat old machine.

The Dell D600 has an issue on ubuntu Lucid and Bodhi, in that it does not wake from suspend or hibernate. One major drawback of this is the fact that closing the lid sends the machine into suspend by default. On opening the lid it doesn't wake up. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/559163] This bug has been reported, but it appears that not much is being done to resolve the issue.

A workaround on Bodhi/Enlightenment, which will allow for the lid to be closed and opened successfully is to delete the key binding for the lid close button.

This will turn the screen off when the lid is closed and turn it back on when the lid is opened. However, this does not suspend or hibernate the machine, just disable and enable the display.

Forum member Meji_D reports: Everything works ootb.

Not tested: IEEE1394, (have no “FireWire” devices). N.B. Fn + F11 (WiFi switch) if used, can on occasion disable WiFi card in BIOS, requiring one to go into BIOS to re-enable it. This is not due to Bodhi. This happens in WinVista as well so has to do with Dell firmware. (tested on 5 different Vostro 1015s).

Forum member Meji_D reports: Everything works ootb.