Well, regarding the reliability of my Timeline laptop: I own my 3810T since the 14th of July and tomorrow I am going to send it to the Acer Service Center already for the second time. While at the first time it was because the display backlight didn't turn on anymore (already after 2 days), I am now not only affected by the 3410/3810-microphone-cable-"voluntary safety recall" like many others (see: http://bit.ly/fwUKR ) but I am also facing a harddisk malfunction that frequently caused/causes severe file system errors (and subsequently disables the harddisk while a both optically and functionally quite trimmed Ubuntu keeps on running in a very spooky way) and/or doesn't let me boot at all because there is "no bootable device -- insert boot disk and press any key".
Fortunately my dual-boot-Vista was so kind to not let me wait too long to get blue-screened evidence that it is actually not an Ubuntu- or Grub-related problem. I am still not sure whether it is because of a defective harddisk (maybe even as a result of the overheating microphone cable which very closely passes the HD?) or because the harddisk seems to be built in a little bit loosely: when opening the HD-lid, I sometimes was able to observe a small gap where the HD is connected to the bus. After pushing the HD towards the connection and thereby closing this tiny gap I had the impression that it took some time until the file system errors reoccurred. I am also under the impression that the HD was usually disabled after carrying the laptop around and once, when the system refused to boot for five consecutive times, I just tried to fix it by shaking the laptop while tilting it to the right side (in order to make the HD slide into the connector) and - at the next attempt it booted. Did anyone have similar experiences? Hopefully not, this issue is really getting tiring... @Nick Glynn: What exactly happend after your laptop began to fail to turn on? Cheers, Max > Just wondering how anyone else has found the reliability on this laptop. I've > just had to return mine after it began to fail to turn on before eventually giving up all together. I know this isn't really a Ubuntu/software thing but > these things all add up for those considering buying one as a Linux laptop. _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~acertimeline More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
