Comments on: Netbook recommendations sought http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/09/15/netbook-recommendations-sought/ World Organi[sz]ation Of Broken Dreams Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:35:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: mat http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/09/15/netbook-recommendations-sought/comment-page-1/#comment-132409 mat Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:51:18 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=860#comment-132409 Hello, got a aspire one from Acer.(model with hard disk) When I bought it (more than one year ago), there were positive linux review on it. Nevertheless, the review mentionned atheros wifi and mine came with a broadcom wifi (-> proprietary driver, argh) Come with a intel video card. Since F13, compiz now work great. Battery is ok. Report of battery life was not working well with F12 but it has been corrected. recent vlc can now show a video fullscreen on it. The bad news is that power saving is completely messed up. With F12, sleeping to disk was ok, sleeping to ram was not working (no screen at return time and no error message) With F13, it sleeps in both case but resume is somehow broken and can lead to corrupted memory (it's not broadcom fault, I can replicate withtou it). Also it has always tried to go sleeping when unplunging the power cable, which is very strange.... If you don't mind this and the small keyboard, it's still very useful. Hello,

got a aspire one from Acer.(model with hard disk)

When I bought it (more than one year ago), there were positive linux review on it.
Nevertheless, the review mentionned atheros wifi and mine came with a broadcom wifi (-> proprietary driver, argh)
Come with a intel video card. Since F13, compiz now work great.
Battery is ok. Report of battery life was not working well with F12 but it has been corrected.
recent vlc can now show a video fullscreen on it.
The bad news is that power saving is completely messed up.
With F12, sleeping to disk was ok, sleeping to ram was not working (no screen at return time and no error message)
With F13, it sleeps in both case but resume is somehow broken and can lead to corrupted memory (it’s not broadcom fault, I can replicate withtou it). Also it has always tried to go sleeping when unplunging the power cable, which is very strange….

If you don’t mind this and the small keyboard, it’s still very useful.

]]> By: Peter http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/09/15/netbook-recommendations-sought/comment-page-1/#comment-132407 Peter Thu, 16 Sep 2010 13:42:11 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=860#comment-132407 Having had people query me about this sort of thing alot due to my involvement with Fedora Moblin/MeeGo and Sugar on a Stick I have found most netbooks to be pretty well supported except wifi. The EEEs usually have a rt2860 chipset which isn't well supported at the moment in Fedora (not tested F-14/F-15 rawhide recently though. The Acer on the other hand generally uses Atheros wifi so works pretty well. The rest comes down to personal choice and that usually revolves around whether you like the keyboard or trackapad. Having had people query me about this sort of thing alot due to my involvement with Fedora Moblin/MeeGo and Sugar on a Stick I have found most netbooks to be pretty well supported except wifi. The EEEs usually have a rt2860 chipset which isn’t well supported at the moment in Fedora (not tested F-14/F-15 rawhide recently though. The Acer on the other hand generally uses Atheros wifi so works pretty well. The rest comes down to personal choice and that usually revolves around whether you like the keyboard or trackapad.

]]> By: James http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/09/15/netbook-recommendations-sought/comment-page-1/#comment-132402 James Thu, 16 Sep 2010 09:43:01 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=860#comment-132402 I got an N450-based Aspire One 532 (from Sainsbury's!) a couple of months ago. Works perfectly with Fedora. The G31-based VGA gets complaints from Windows users, but for Fedora it's great. Two issues: Acer say it's not expandable beyond 1 GB of RAM, and the BIOS disables XD, I got an N450-based Aspire One 532 (from Sainsbury’s!) a couple of months ago. Works perfectly with Fedora. The G31-based VGA gets complaints from Windows users, but for Fedora it’s great.

Two issues: Acer say it’s not expandable beyond 1 GB of RAM, and the BIOS disables XD,

]]> By: Jan Vlug http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/09/15/netbook-recommendations-sought/comment-page-1/#comment-132401 Jan Vlug Thu, 16 Sep 2010 07:41:47 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=860#comment-132401 I have a ZaReason Teo Netbook, which I recommend. I got it with Fedora 13 pre installed. I like the fact that they are a dedicated Linux only company: http://zareason.com/shop/Teo-Netbook.html. I have a ZaReason Teo Netbook, which I recommend. I got it with Fedora 13 pre installed. I like the fact that they are a dedicated Linux only company: http://zareason.com/shop/Teo-Netbook.html.

]]> By: Luca Botti http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/2010/09/15/netbook-recommendations-sought/comment-page-1/#comment-132400 Luca Botti Thu, 16 Sep 2010 06:31:19 +0000 http://www.jonmasters.org/blog/?p=860#comment-132400 Hi, I agree for the NC-10 - good as it gets, but, for netbooks as a general, you will find they are too low spec for mostly everything (screen resolution being a major issue). I just replaced my NC-10 (still on sale, but 32 bit only if interested) with a 11,6" Acer 1810TZ. Nearly as small, but more powerful. Not the Atom madness. Hi,

I agree for the NC-10 – good as it gets, but, for netbooks as a general, you will find they are too low spec for mostly everything (screen resolution being a major issue).

I just replaced my NC-10 (still on sale, but 32 bit only if interested) with a 11,6″ Acer 1810TZ. Nearly as small, but more powerful. Not the Atom madness.

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