On Monday 20 December 2010 11:43 AM, jtd wrote:
On Sunday 19 December 2010 19:44:43 Koustubha Kale wrote:
In all my years with Linux, this is the first laptop on which everything like sound, mike, webcam, wifi, screen resolution, external display, sleep and resume, function keys, even the sd card read/write all work out of the box with Ubuntu 10.10. Amazing!!
Comes with DOS only so no M$ tax on purchase price. Intel Core i3 370M @ 2.4 Ghz, 4gb DDR3 ram, 500Gb hdd, 14" WLED screen. About 35000+
I will recommend this to anyone wanting to use Linux on a laptop.
An earlier Dell AMD model in 2007 which came with dos also worked out of the box on etch. No mucking around with anything. Ofcourse the chipset was AMD, whose specs were available. It is almost trivial to support a device whose specs are available.
My 2 earlier Acer Travelmate 2403 and Aspire One worked out of the box in K/Ubuntus. Only wireless drivers had to be manually installed in Lenny in one of them. My latest Acer 5740 also works out of the box on Ubuntu 10.04.