Full post to come on this but a summary - 99% of the features of the laptop (nVidia Graphics, Wireless, Mouse etc) all work out of the box (no messing about at all - it just works!) with Ubuntu Linux 7.04 aka “Feisty Faun”!
I am really impressed with Ubuntu 7 - its a very well polished piece of software and what with the news of Dell announcing Ubuntu as a supported/pre-installed operating system in the US I think its starting to reach a level of maturity that makes Linux more accessible to the average user - interesting times…
When I did a google I found a link to related model. I have yet to try out all of its suggestions (such as detecting what graphics card is switched on - from the Stamina/Speed selector switch and changing the X config) but as I learn more I’ll update this post.
Hmm looks like this question on Launchpad might get the Webcam working.