Yes, I noticed. Mine is a Vostro 1500. The Vostro and the Inspiron are basically the same thing. The only difference is the Vostro is marketed for small and medium businesses while the Inspiron is aimed for home. As a result, the Vostro doesn't have color options and doesn't come loaded with media enhancing software. Which can be a good thing, depending on your point of view. =) BTW, I'm running Kubuntu 12.04 on my Vostro.
Omg I've so deleted all of that crap, I should have bought a Vostro not to have to pay for all of those, lol. Roxio CD creator, Dell Media Center, argh, many others that I never re-installed after first format. But I like my red hood :P, when I picked it among white green yellow and pink. Vostro 1500 must be like the Inspiron 1520-21 and the number stands for 15 inches the size of the screen. Those are both discontinued actually... or, "are not the name anymore", since Dell has always been selling Inspirons, but those awesome no-flex keyboard, the rugged-looking, thick, breathy, shiny-surface-less design, with infra-red captor, media buttons, SPDIF out, are no more. My Inspiron from 2007 still have the specs (hard drive size, ram memory) of their run-for-the-mill, cheaper Inspiron laptop of 2012... although mine is bigger and theirs have got sleeker and more MacBook looking. You used to be able to customize your laptop to give it better specs and parts, back in the days on Dell.com. Now you pick one (screen size, best-selling or high-performance), choose your switchable lids, and that's about it. They give you a cheap, all made up solution. If you want to push the envelop further you need to pick an Alienware and pay more.
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BTW, I'm running Kubuntu 12.04 on my Vostro.
But I like my red hood :P, when I picked it among white green yellow and pink.
Vostro 1500 must be like the Inspiron 1520-21 and the number stands for 15 inches the size of the screen. Those are both discontinued actually... or, "are not the name anymore", since Dell has always been selling Inspirons, but those awesome no-flex keyboard, the rugged-looking, thick, breathy, shiny-surface-less design, with infra-red captor, media buttons, SPDIF out, are no more.
My Inspiron from 2007 still have the specs (hard drive size, ram memory) of their run-for-the-mill, cheaper Inspiron laptop of 2012... although mine is bigger and theirs have got sleeker and more MacBook looking. You used to be able to customize your laptop to give it better specs and parts, back in the days on Dell.com. Now you pick one (screen size, best-selling or high-performance), choose your switchable lids, and that's about it. They give you a cheap, all made up solution. If you want to push the envelop further you need to pick an Alienware and pay more.