Sabi ni Elij noong May 3, 2007 12:01 AM:
Thanks for the input. Can anyone vouch for the durability of an Acer? or those other not so well-known brands? I'm thinking of picking an Acer n lang because may pre-installed linux na ...
I'm working on a project that has assigned me an Aspire 5570Z that refuses (so far) to run anything but Vista (Home Basic). Not to worry, I refuse to give up on it :) OTOH, I do have to give it back about the 3rd week of June and the true owners may not take kindly to "unfamiliar" software so my motivation isn't that strong. Anyway, this particular model is less than PhP50K. Having used it for only two or three weeks, I can't vouch for its durability but you can be sure I won't be torturing it in retaliation for its Windows-only hardware. It's one heavy bugger though and I wouldn't carry it around unless I really have to. It also heats up, and even heated up my cellphone which I left beside it. Power has three settings: power saver, which is meant for unplugged (ie, battery) use; balanced, w/c as the name sort of implies balances power and performance; and performance, w/c sacrifices battery power for performance. I can tell you that the last setting doesn't exaggerate about sacrificing battery power -- I unplugged it for maybe two minutes to move it from one room to the next, and that drained approximately 2% off the battery. Anything else you want to know? Maybe offlist, since I haven't managed to install a FOSS OS on it yet, although I do have OpenOffice.org on it. -- Daniel O. Escasa independent IT consultant and writer contributor, Free Software Magazine (http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com) personal blog at http://descasa.i.ph _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
