On Sunday 22 April 2012 12:54 PM, Vignesh Nandha Kumar wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2012 at 11:57 AM, Kumaran R<[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Yesterday I got the pleasure of using one of the TN govt.
>> laptops. I think we all remember the struggle whch we had to take to
>> make the laptop a dual-boot one. And it has paid off (atleast
>> partially.)
>>
>> Hardware Specs: Intel Pentium Dual [email protected] GHz, 2 GB DDR3 RAM
>> (upgradable to 8GB), 320 GB Western Digital SATA 2.5" HDD, 14.1"
>> 1366x768 LCD Screen, etc,.
>>
>> On the whole the laptop doesn't feel cheap. Its light in weight
>> thanks to the absence of a DVD drive and Wifi. The keyboard is not
>> upto Lenovo standards, but it is still much better than most laptop
>> keyboards. I'm typing this email in this keyboard, and it offers good
>> feedback.. The display is a 14" 1366x768. It has good brightness but
>> poor viewing angles and lots of glare, thanks to the glossy finish.
>> The lack of wifi is a huge disappointment. The battery lasted just
>> under 3 hours (2:58) while doing light web-browsing and playing music
>> (max. brightness and max. volume). Overall, the design is good with a
>> good textured feel. It feels solid to hold, and doesn't have lots of
>> flex.
>>
>> It has a dual boot with Windows 7 Professional and BOSS
>> GNU/Linux. I haven't tested Windows 7 much. It has a Office 2010
>> Starter Edition and Microsoft Security Essentials (I doubt if that is
>> an anti-virus.) It has few educational apps too. Most of the hard-disk
>> space (~200 GB) is allocated for it. It logs in by default as a root
>> user.
>>
>> The BOSS Linux 4.0, has GNOME 2.30 and OpenOffice.org 3.2. It has
>> few educational apps like Thirukural and Tamil Keyboard. It also has
>> the TN govt. textbooks for classes 11 and 12 in .pdf format. I had to
>> update 8 packages after connecting to the internet. They have just
>> shifted the top panel to the bottom to make it more "windows-like".
>> Overall, BOSS works fine and fast.. It has iceweasel and icedove for
>> web-browsing and mail.
>>
> That was a nice review. Thanks Kumaran.
>
thanks for the review... i have searched for this one week before...
yesterday we got a free laptop's in our college.. wow...
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