Hallo August, the U350 looks interesting but is too big to my taste. However this product line is worth a look anyway! Good to have a reference! Thanks, Michael.
On 27.8.2011, at 01:35 , august wrote:
I have an ideapad u350 and can report it works great with the latest Ubuntu. Everything that I have used, including wireless, opengl, HDMI output, work out of the box without having to fiddle with drivers.
The VGA out will also drive a high resolution screen.
There was a problem with audio at one point about a year ago, but that has been fixed.
With the extended battery, it also goes for 9 hours before re-juicing.
I haven't tried the express slot, but I imagine it works.
-august.
I don't have a netbook, but I would be buying one at some point as well, when my 7-year-old thinkpad dies. I've done some basic research on this. I'm a fan of IBM/Lenovo, anyway. A friend of mine has an ideapad running Xp + ubuntu + hackintosh, everything ok. I guess that lenovo + asus have the best support for non-windows, but I might be outdated in this evaluation.
Did you consider using RME audio, like Multiface+Expresscard? Expensive, but very good. At least the pcmcia card worked out of the box with ubuntu, haven't heard any reports on the expresscard.
With base models of netbooks you might get the normal 1 Core, 1,6Ghz, 1Gb RAM, normal graphics. With expanded models, you can get more cores+speed+ram, and better graphics cards. At a price, of course.
João
Hello, in Weimar and Berlin I noticed quite a few people are using small laptops/netbooks.
I'm in the market for a netbook now and want to run linux w/ the usual suspects for experimental electronic music (Pure Data, SC, Ardour, Processing etc.) Softwarewise Im currently looking at pure:dyne as the operating system. But I'm open to suggestions.
What would you recommend for the hardware? Last time I checked some products was in 2009. I suppose battery life has improved, CPUs became a tad faster and linux runs a bit smoother on such a thing. What I really barely can cope with is the glossy screens, but I'm afraid there's no way around it. I'm planning to connect a USB-audio interface, so Firewire is not an issue (which Jack has troubles with, IIRC). Very nice to have would be a built in modem w/ Sim-card slot for mobile data transfer. (Linux supported of course).
What would you suggest? Thanks a lot, Michael.
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