On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 7:11 AM, Jeff Jibson <[email protected]> wrote: > I will avoid HP like the plague.... > > For a smaller laptop, I have really like my Acer 1810t... >
On that note, I will never give buy an ASUS notebook. A few jobs ago, I was purchased what I assume to be a very expensive gaming notebook. It had a fancy paint job on it, and a nifty LED display just above the keyboard, and that's where anything awesome ended. The "monster sound" speakers were crap, the screen wasn't great, and I was endlessly annoyed by the POST sound being an explosion that couldn't be turned off without crippling all system sounds. Linux support was horrific. I was into Ubuntu at the time, and I never could get it installed. RHEL/CentOS would install, but I had no network support, but I finally did manage to get Fedora running (with partial network support). At some point early on, I upgraded the kernel, and the screen got progressively darker with each reboot. I never did get used to the keyboard. I ended up just switching back to my personal Thinkpad for pretty much everything but company email, some surfing, and the occasional resource-intensive job that I didn't want running on my own computer (which was slower, but significantly more functional). I was sad to leave that job, but not the notebook which, by that point, hadn't even been powered on for several months. Still running the same Thinkpad, though. -- "In order to create, you have to have the willingness, the desire to be challenged, to be learning." -- Ferran Adria (speaking at Harvard, 2011) /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
