Works even better, as the webcam and integrated microphone now also work. Also had no problems with the new wireless driver iwlwifi for the intel wireless card. Video driver also supports compositing now (Intel, nvidia should have worked anyway). Can't say anything about Bluetooth, but looks fine.

I also haven't tested the microphone connector in front of the laptop. That one doesn't work on 7.10, but I haven't checked with hardy.

Oh, I run the 64bit version of Ubuntu 8.04 (upgraded from 7.10).

Supend and hibernation generally work, but I've had 2 occasions were suspend gave problems (I've used it daily since release).

One word of caution, I'm not sure whether you will get a Dell mediaDirect option on your laptop, but for me that caused me headaches. Repartitioning changed my mediaDirect-button (on the laptop itself) in a 'remove the partition table' button. Very, very, very annoying. If there is such a partition on your 1525, be sure to test it after repartitioning. Took me hours to get it working. This was a known bug, so I assume they have fixed it by now...

Cheers,

Rutger