I am very interested in your Sputnik Project and I wanted to know when will you release a second version notebook of Sputnik: bigger screen,better ram ….

Thanks for your answer
Thibault

I looked closely at the specs for the Dell XPS 13, 14, and 15. For me, the XPS 14 is the real bang for the buck. 11 hour battery, and a 1600×900 resolution vs price were the big selling points for me. Unfortunately, only the XPS 13 is in the Sputnik project. So I went ahead and bought the XPS 14 anyway and I plan to replace the OS with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.

I’m assuming I can purchase the XPS 14 and replace Windows 8 with the Sputnik image. Is that what you’d recommend or should I just load the standard Ubuntu image and then pick and choose the other drivers I need from the PPA? I’m no stranger to replacing Windows with Ubuntu, but if you guys have already done the hard work of putting together the packages and it will work on an XPS 14, I’d rather go that way.

Only one thing remains to lament: the “Windows logo” key in the product photos. It’s a trivial gripe, but it would have been icing on the cake to have the Ubuntu logo there in its place.

I’ve purchased three Dell machines in the past and while I’m not in the market right now for a new laptop, I’d love to have an option like this available for my next purchase. With that, I wish great success to Project Sputnik!

This kind of commitment from a manufacturer is very important when I’m considering buying a higher end laptop for running Linux. Fit and finish are very important too, but a commitment to support Linux is your killer feature here. The profiles are gravy.

Of the drivers produced please contribute them back to the kernel, the community can do the rest.

As a developer, I know which laptop I can purchase with full hardware support. I don’t need this profile fluff!

Please focus on the drivers!