Posts by ExplodingLemur

1. Intel, Kingston, or Crucial are the 3 I'm considering. 2. Price and performance (and reliability as rated by existing owners)

There is no such thing as a perfect laptop, everything is a tradeoff. If they did what you ask to make *your* perfect laptop, someone else would complain that it gets too hot or doesn't have enough battery life, or is too heavy, etc. ...

I'm curious where you think the extra battery cells would go. The 6-cell pack would appear to be full of battery cells already...so unless you want a large bulge sticking out of the bottom of your laptop, there's just no space for it

The Debian Reference: http://www.debian.org/doc/user-manuals#quick-reference I actually took the PDF to Kinko's and had a hardcopy printed.

Quote: Originally Posted by Spud387 Whats the battery life like? I get 3 hours.

Quote: Originally Posted by agent80 Does the A8JM suffer from any of the display issues? It doesn't cause cancer, nor does it eat my cats or drink straight from the milk carton...though since you didn't...

Hm. I found these links for Bluetooth: http://www.watkissonline.co.uk/linuxbluenet.html https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BluetoothSetup Looks like there's no driver for the webcam yet though, it's a Vimicro device that will probably...

It's not a hardcore gaming rig, but it's the best all-around laptop I've found (which is why I have one )

49.21fps in HL2 Lost Coast with 4xAA, 4x anistropic filtering, and HDR. As far as the widescreen causing frame hits...1152x864 has 995,328 pixels, 1280x800 has 1,024,000 pixels. So, pretty close. Games that support widescreen can do...

lsusb output: Webcam: 0ac8:0321 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. Bluetooth: 0b05:1712 ASUSTek Computer, Inc. Any idea how to get these working in Ubuntu? I don't know what drivers or userspace utils to use for either devices. (for...