hi there, honeymoon being over with my acer aspire D270 i am starting to realize that even if i replace the broadcom 4313 wifi (thanks for nothing broadcom) the intel GMA 3600 being not really an intel thing, thus with no chance of an open source driver, i have bought a cheap netbook, but an expensive paperweight (or a cheap netbook that is actually useless for travelling).
now before i get the "you should have researched" note, rightfully, i had a long hard look at the netbook market again, and it seems that the damned marriage made in hell: broadcom NIC's + intel GMA's is pretty much the order of the day for almost all recent netbook models, at least the atom ones. judging by some googling, even the penguin camp seems to be in pain about these devices. windows 7 starter edition is the evilest master plan i have ever seen, not only single handedly destroyed the linux netbook market, but strongly encouraged shipping these machines with hw components that will never see open source drivers. thank you very much intel, the great friend of open source. what a shame really, such nice machines otherwise. does anyone have a netbook with amd stuff instead? combos like C-60 APU with Radeon HD 6290 or similar? is that camp better supported? or is it the same tough love coming from a different companies? -f -- it takes about ten years to get used to how old you are.
