Lets hope that 8.1 will see a return to the quality that we are all used too at the general consumer level. Try installing 8.0 on a 233/32 meg portege 3015CT (product of the year only 2 years ago) But this is also a reality as laptops are designed to live only for quarter and then are considered redundant. It must be very difficult to be in the distro business. Certainly I appreciate the volume of work SuSE puts into its product releases and there are bound to be glitches periodically. For me, probably the exception other then you and a few others, 8.0 was one of those releases. But im sure there will be marked improvements with 8.1
I hope too ! In fact this Suse 8.1 will be my "last chance" to Suse, if they are NOT a killer distribution ( like 7.0/7.1/7.2/7.3 was !!! ) bye bye Suse for me ! Fábio Rabelo