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.
Regards, Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation
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On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Koustubha Kale kmkale@anantcorp.comwrote:
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.
Great! A few of my clients have 14R and the 15R but with Windows 7 so I have not experimented much with them. The other +ve item I have noted: the BIOS's have CPU virtualization option on notebooks with i[357] CPUs, unlike the previous gen. notebook's BIOS wherein vitualization was crippled even though the CPU had the extension.
Can you please confirm whether you can insert the kvm-intel module and the creation of the device /dev/kvm?
e.g. # modprobe kvm-intel; ls -l /dev/kvm
-- Arun Khan
Can you please confirm whether you can insert the kvm-intel module and the creation of the device /dev/kvm?
e.g. # modprobe kvm-intel; ls -l /dev/kvm
-- Arun Khan
Yes the device /dev/kvm gets created. I am using qemu-kvm on this laptop.
Regards, Koustubha Kale Anant Corporation
Contact Details : Address : 103, Armaan Residency, R. W Sawant Road, Nr. Golden Dyes Naka, Thane (w), Maharashtra, India, Pin : 400601. TeleFax : +91-22-21720108, +91-22-21720109 Mobile : +919820715876 Website : http://www.anantcorp.com Blog : http://www.anantcorp.com/blog/?author=2
On Monday 20 December 2010 10:29 AM, Arun Khan wrote:
Can you please confirm whether you can insert the kvm-intel module and the creation of the device /dev/kvm?
e.g. # modprobe kvm-intel; ls -l /dev/kvm
I tried the above command in my core-i3 desktop ( Intel DH55TC ) and the device was listed. I will try it later in my laptop (Acer with i5) too.
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.
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.
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.
I've had consistently good experiences with Linux on Thinkpads. I used to use SuSE in 1999, then switched to Ubuntu a few years back (v7.10, IIRC), and I've always had an easy time with the hardware detection, etc. All my laptops have been Thinkpads. (380XD, then 600, then R40e, now X60s).
Shuvam
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Koustubha Kale kmkale@anantcorp.com 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!!
In my case it is Lenovo IBM Thinkpad X61, in which almost everything worked out of the box (except finger print reader). I have been using Ubuntu karmic on it for quite some time without any problem. I haven't tried to configure the finger print reader as I never needed it. Sometimes I use it to warm my fingertips on cold nights :)
Earlier I was using one of the Compaq Presario model and its wi-fi worked with ndis-wrapper for around 6 months. Once I did a kernel package update from Ubuntu repository and it never worked again.
Raghu
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