i am once again in the market for a newer fedora laptop, and this one seems like a decent bargain (open box discount):
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=60...
mostly i'm paying a few extra bucks for the 1600x900 display, but does anyone see any fatal flaws in this system from a fedora perspective?
minimally, i want:
* 64-bit processor with H/W virt support * at least 3GB RAM (4 would have been better but, eh ...) * HDMI port * 802.11 b/g/n
so this *seems* to fit the bill -- does anyone see any show-stoppers? thanks.
rday --
======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.
Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================
On 04/25/2010 06:01 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i am once again in the market for a newer fedora laptop, and this one seems like a decent bargain (open box discount):
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=60...
mostly i'm paying a few extra bucks for the 1600x900 display, but does anyone see any fatal flaws in this system from a fedora perspective?
minimally, i want:
- 64-bit processor with H/W virt support
- at least 3GB RAM (4 would have been better but, eh ...)
- HDMI port
- 802.11 b/g/n
so this *seems* to fit the bill -- does anyone see any show-stoppers? thanks.
rday
======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.
Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================
From what I've seen, it's ok, except the fact that I didn't gather what brand/type the wi-fi card is; also, you should be up-to-date with the Radeon-Linux interaction; of course, Google will help.
On 04/25/2010 11:01 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
i am once again in the market for a newer fedora laptop, and this one seems like a decent bargain (open box discount):
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=60...
mostly i'm paying a few extra bucks for the 1600x900 display, but does anyone see any fatal flaws in this system from a fedora perspective?
minimally, i want:
- 64-bit processor with H/W virt support
- at least 3GB RAM (4 would have been better but, eh ...)
- HDMI port
- 802.11 b/g/n
so this *seems* to fit the bill -- does anyone see any show-stoppers? thanks.
I think you need to update your address book to send messages to users@lists.fedoraproject.org and not fedora-list@redhat.com. The later is depreciated and will often result in double messages from folks responding....
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Rares Aioanei wrote:
From what I've seen, it's ok, except the fact that I didn't gather what brand/type the wi-fi card is; also, you should be up-to-date with the Radeon-Linux interaction; of course, Google will help.
the web page states:
"Acer® InviLink Nplify 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN"
i am unfamiliar with that so if anyone else can shed light on that, that would be just ducky.
rday --
======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
Linux Consulting, Training and Kernel Pedantry.
Web page: http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday ========================================================================
On Sun, 2010-04-25 at 23:21 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
I think you need to update your address book to send messages to users@lists.fedoraproject.org and not fedora-list@redhat.com. The later is depreciated and will often result in double messages from folks responding....
Yes, and those finding their message being addressed to both when they hit reply, could help out by removing the old address.
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpjday@crashcourse.ca wrote:
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Rares Aioanei wrote:
From what I've seen, it's ok, except the fact that I didn't gather what brand/type the wi-fi card is; also, you should be up-to-date with the Radeon-Linux interaction; of course, Google will help.
the web page states:
"Acer® InviLink Nplify 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN"
i am unfamiliar with that so if anyone else can shed light on that, that would be just ducky.
rday
My wife's Acer laptop says about the same thing. Her's uses the ath9k driver which I was having issues with until the 2.6.32 kernels, now it works great.
Richard
On 04/26/2010 12:37 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpjday@crashcourse.ca wrote:
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Rares Aioanei wrote:
From what I've seen, it's ok, except the fact that I didn't gather what brand/type the wi-fi card is; also, you should be up-to-date with the Radeon-Linux interaction; of course, Google will help.
the web page states:
"Acer® InviLink Nplify 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN"
i am unfamiliar with that so if anyone else can shed light on that, that would be just ducky.
rday
My wife's Acer laptop says about the same thing. Her's uses the ath9k driver which I was having issues with until the 2.6.32 kernels, now it works great.
Richard
I said "I didn't gather..." since I know that Acer do not manufacture wi-fi cards. Iif it's Atheros, support for it is good in Linux.
On Mo, Apr 26, 2010 at 01:06:34 +0300, Rares Aioanei wrote:
On 04/26/2010 12:37 AM, Richard Shaw wrote:
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Robert P. J. Day rpjday@crashcourse.ca wrote:
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010, Rares Aioanei wrote:
From what I've seen, it's ok, except the fact that I didn't gather what brand/type the wi-fi card is; also, you should be up-to-date with the Radeon-Linux interaction; of course, Google will help.
the web page states:
"Acer® InviLink Nplify 802.11b/g/n wireless LAN"
i am unfamiliar with that so if anyone else can shed light on that, that would be just ducky.
rday
My wife's Acer laptop says about the same thing. Her's uses the ath9k driver which I was having issues with until the 2.6.32 kernels, now it works great.
Richard
I said "I didn't gather..." since I know that Acer do not manufacture wi-fi cards. Iif it's Atheros, support for it is good in Linux.
Acer InviLink is a branding for 5 different driver types. Intel, RaLink and 3 types of Atheros drivers. It seems okay so far. The rest of the hw configuration looks good.
Cheers Mario Guenterberg
i am once again in the market for a newer fedora laptop, and this one seems like a decent bargain (open box discount):
http://www.tigerdirect.ca/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=60...
mostly i'm paying a few extra bucks for the 1600x900 display, but does anyone see any fatal flaws in this system from a fedora perspective?
minimally, i want:
- 64-bit processor with H/W virt support
- at least 3GB RAM (4 would have been better but, eh ...)
- HDMI port
- 802.11 b/g/n
so this *seems* to fit the bill -- does anyone see any show-stoppers? thanks.
One note...I'm currently using F12 on an Acer Aspire 5100...the only thing that doesn't work as I'd like is the audio subsystem...specifically, the microphone input. When I attempt to record anything, I can hear myself, but the recording software doesn't actually record anything.
Hopefully, F13 on the hardware you note, above, has better support.