Posts by efalis

Check out the Fujitsu glossy screen models. The new Lifebook E 82xx looks very nice, spec-wise.

Quote: Originally Posted by onlymee Will do. Want to get Software Suspend 2 running first though! My final hurdle. Didn't do anyhting special mind, only issue was the Gentoo live CD initially loading the wired network...

I'm among the happy owners of the 8204. Maybe I'm not too discriminating about screen noise and gray lines - I can barely notice what might be noise using the Nokia brightness and contrast test, and the gray lines only show up in a test...

Presbyopia ;-)

They ship them from China (or at least that's where the 15" MBP I got came from).

Working with Gentoo, eh? Going to post relevant info to http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/acer.html for us dummies who haven't gotten a linux distro to work right yet? Thanks! - Ed

Guess this is the best 15" by those criteria then: 4157 -- $2500 -- 1,66 -- Acer 8204WLMi -- 2.0 GHz Core Duo, ATI X1600 256MB, 15.4" 1680x1050, 2GB, 120GB 5400rpm, 3kg, 3h I like mine.

If you can backup everything important to you on the machine, you may be better off doing fresh install of 2K on a wiped disk. Their is clearly a lot of ME specific stuff on the computer.

Quote: Originally Posted by Joelist ... So, my being down on open source is experience based. Fair enough. I misread your meaning. - Ed

I believe CLI is the ATI hot-key service. You can disable it in Administrative Tools -> Services without causing any harm. - Ed