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