On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 3:54 PM, Bogdan Cristea wrote:

I need to buy a mini-laptop for conference presentations and for travels. The most inexpensive laptops on the market seem to be those with Linux installed. I am wondering if you could share your experience with these laptops when openSuSE is used. thanks Bogdan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

I just configured a Sony VAIO TT-190 (SSD drive, weighs about 1.5 kg) with OpenSuSE 11.1 64-bit. Seems to work just fine. Boris. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 22:54 +0200, Bogdan Cristea wrote:

I am wondering if you could share your experience with these laptops when openSuSE is used.

I have an Acer Aspire One (ZG5) upgraded to 1.5GB ram. Installed openSUSE 11.1. Everything works perfectly out of the box (wlan, webcam, xorg), and it runs decently with OpenOffice, Firefox, evolution, mplayer. About the only gripe I have is that the standard battery only gives me about 2 hours run time. I think that I could improve this by removing some services, but I haven't been too fussed to experiment. Cheers, Allen -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

On Sunday 15 February 2009 10:54:30 pm Bogdan Cristea wrote:

I need to buy a mini-laptop for conference presentations and for travels. The most inexpensive laptops on the market seem to be those with Linux installed. I am wondering if you could share your experience with these laptops when openSuSE is used. thanks Bogdan

You could consider the hp2133 in the far future, but for the moment try to avoid it! (still having a lot of issues with it: no 3D acceleration with the openchrome driver, driver also kills the wireless cards (http://www.mail-archive.com/bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de/msg07690.html), web-cam I haven't even tried yet). I got fooled, because it came with sles 10.3 pre-installed! Cheers, Sampsa -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Le Sunday 15 February 2009 21:54:30 Bogdan Cristea, vous avez écrit :

I need to buy a mini-laptop for conference presentations and for travels. The most inexpensive laptops on the market seem to be those with Linux installed. I am wondering if you could share your experience with these laptops when openSuSE is used. thanks Bogdan

Hi, I use a medion akoya mini netbook (= Msi Wind U100). I dual boot windows XP (installed) with Opensuse 11.0 for presentation purpose and to travel light. Everything works out of the box. I had to use the ndiswrapper for the wlan, but now it is working using the Ralink linux driver. So : Video works great (even using compiz ;-) on Kde 3.5) Webcam works Ethernet + wifi works Special function keys works except for few ones (don't recall now, but nothing important). The ones that works for sure : connect/disconnect wifi ; connect/disconnect webcam ; increase/decrease screen backlight. Only problem is the battery life (~ 2 hours, with the stock 3 cell battery), but you can buy 6 cells battery to double it. Now the best part... I found it new for about 200 € ( $ 255) (the version shipped with the 80 GB HDD and 1 GB of RAM). I only changed the RAM to increase to 2GB RAM. Matthias -- / \ /_!_\ My e-mail address has just changed. Please note the new one : matthias.titeux@inserm.fr _____________________________________________________________                      Matthias Titeux, PhD Département de génétique des maladies cutanées et allergiques             dans des modèles animaux et chez l'homme.                       INSERM U563 - CPTP                  Pavillon Lefebvre, 5ème étage                           CHU Purpan                             BP3028                     31024 Toulouse cedex 03 __________________________________________________________ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Bogdan Cristea wrote:

I need to buy a mini-laptop for conference presentations and for travels. The most inexpensive laptops on the market seem to be those with Linux installed. I am wondering if you could share your experience with these laptops when openSuSE is used. thanks Bogdan

Hi Bodgan, Similar to Herbert, I own a EeePC 901, and it also works out of the box with openSUSE 11.1 ( The wireless will only be available after installation ). The Fn keys will also need to be added. And this is a 6+ hours uptime Laptop. If you decrease your screen brightness, disable bluetooth and wireless you will get 7+ -- Rui Santos http://www.ruisantos.com/ Veni, vidi, Linux! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

I have an HP Mini 1010NR running OpenSUSE 11.1. At first it had issues with the wireless but mysteriously that problem went away one day. I never got around to looking but I assume there was an update that fixed it. Anyhow, everything but sound works great with OpenSUSE 11.1. Sound is probably fixable but I haven't spent any time on it (wife's computer). I haven't looked recently but this device used to only be available with Windows pre-installed so you end up paying for XP if you want it or not but this may have changed since HP now has a USB install method for the 1000 series that gets you up and going with Ubuntu: http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/02/04/hp-releases-netbook-interface-for-ub... Haven't got around to testing it yet but it looks pretty slick. -- John Lange http://www.johnlange.ca On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 22:54 +0200, Bogdan Cristea wrote:

I need to buy a mini-laptop for conference presentations and for travels. The most inexpensive laptops on the market seem to be those with Linux installed. I am wondering if you could share your experience with these laptops when openSuSE is used. thanks Bogdan

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