Last month, we ordered a couple Dell e1505n laptops and this is going on the 3rd(?) week since we received them. We ordered them initially with 512MB of RAM since Dell was charging $200 for what you could get from NewEgg.com for a little less than half that.
Initial thoughts on opening the box…”Oooh Ahhh a new laptop!” Yeah, I was so happy to finally see my new friend. I have read that some people think these laptops are ugly, but I actually like the white “racing stripes” along the sides. Makes it look fast 
This is my first experience with a laptop display like this. It is fairly high-gloss and very bright. My eyes like it, and the 1680×1050 widescreen resolution isn’t too shabby either.
The lack of RAM (during the shipping time from NewEgg.com) wasn’t nearly as unbearable as I predicted. I was able to run Apache/MySQL/ColdFusion/Eclipse for development, although I couldn’t do much else . But, 2 GB of RAM really really completed the package.
The Dell partion setup is a little odd. There are a couple fat 32 partitions that Dell includes that are for the MediaDirect boot option, but unfortunately this option does not work for the Ubuntu systems. (Why they left those partitions is anybody’s guess). These are small partitions and not worth worrying about, since I got the 160gb HD!
I am really enjoying this new machine, there isn’t much else to say except that Ubuntu works great out of the box (no surprise there), wireless, nvidia drivers, all working A-OK.
