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I'm writing this on a shiny new Dell Vostro 1400! I actually got it on Tuesday, but I've been too busy playing with it to post. It's a nice machine. A bit thick and heavy for a 14 inch laptop, but it makes up for that by being solidly built and providing good performance options for the price.
Setting up the vista and ubuntu dual boot was... interesting. Could have been smoother (read: it took all weekend). First I reinstalled vista to a smaller (30Gb) partition, and destroyed dell media direct in the process. There was an interesting phase where no matter what button I pressed it would attempt to fire up media direct and fail. Unbeknownst to me, at some point during this phase, media direct created another partition over the top of the one it already had. Apparently it's known to do such things, and has killed peoples linux installs in the process. I'm not too keen on having a kill linux button, so I left it with it's partition (after all, what's 3gig for a little peace of mind?).
The graphics driver was an ordeal all on it's own. Only because I'm a linux n00b, but still. Ubuntu very nicely detected my geforce 8400M and suggested a proprietary driver for it. So I installed it, rebooted, and everything seemed fine. It even changed the font to make it seem like it had done something. But it didn't give me any hardware acceleration. So, I tried downloading a linux driver from nvidia. Unfortunately I got the wrong one, and spent ages breaking my X config, reading log files and generally going mildly insane. Then finally I found the right driver, installed it and bam! The way it's meant to be played! Oh wait, it's a business lappy. Um, the way it's meant to be visualised!